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SUFFOLK LAW
ALUMNI MAGAZINE
02 A MESSAGE FROM DEAN PERLMAN 03 SUFFOLK LAW BY THE
NUMBERS
04
NATIONAL
HONORS
FOR
CIVIC-MINDED
STUDENT
04 FAIR HOUSING PROGRAM GETS $1M GRANT 04 THE PEW
CHARITABLE TRUSTS TURNS TO SUFFOLK 05 ALUMNA DESIGNS
DIVERSIONARY PROGRAMS APP 05 NEW DEGREE PROGRAM FOR LIFE
SCIENCES LAW 05 PROFESSOR EARNS ABA LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
06 NEW LAW FACULTY ON ISSUES THAT MATTER 08 LEGAL 500 RECOGNIZES
RECENT GRADUATE 08 RECOGNITION FROM THE NATIONAL BLACK PRE-LAW
CONFERENCE 08 SUFFOLK LAW HELPS LAUNCH NATIONAL POLICING
09
MICHAEL
J.
NICHOLSON:
MAYOR
A SAGE CONSORTIUM
BY DAY, LAW STUDENT BY
NIGHT 10
FROM
SUFFOLK LAW
DEA
STUDENT
WINS PATENT
A W A R D
11 NEW GROUP
ASSISTS FIRST
-GEN STUDENTS
12 CLOSING
COVID-19
35
JUSTICE GAP
PHD’S
12 NY TIMES
ENROLLED AT
HIGHLIGHTS
SUFFOLK L
EVICTION RELIEF
13 A QUICK
13
CLINICS FORGE
TURN T O W A R D
AHEAD IN FACE OF PANDEMIC
THE VIRTUAL CLASSROOM
13 EMERGENCY FUND HELPS
STUDENTS IMPACTED BY COVID
14 SERGE GEORGES JR. NOMINATED TO SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT
17 BRETT FREEDMAN ADVISES THE SSCI 18 REGINA HOLLOWAY’S CAREER
IN POLICE OVERSIGHT TAKES A NEW TURN 19 THREE ALUMNI MAKE $1M
PLEDGES IN SINGLE YEAR 20 ALL RISE: CELEBRATING SUFFOLK LAW’S FEMALE
LEADERS 21 ALUMNI CONTRIBUTIONS WITH PERSONAL MEANING 21 ERNST
GUERRIER PAYS IT FORWARD 22 DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION AT SUFFOLK
LAW 25 TRANSACTIONAL LAW MEETS SOCIAL JUSTICE 26 DEAN
PERLMAN HELPS LEAD ACCESS-TO-JUSTICE-EFFORT 27 SUFFOLK LAW
LAUNCHES INNOVATIVE HYBRID ONLINE JD PROGRAM 28 EMPATHY AND
REHABILITATION, ALUMNI FORGE NEW PATHS FOR THE COURTS 32 SUFFOLK
LAW RESPONDS TO THE HOUSING CRISIS 38 WALK IN MY SHOES: A DAY IN
THE LIFE OF A BLACK WOMAN ATTORNEY 41 HONORING THE MEMORY
OF A RISING STAR IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE 42 DEAN’S CABINET GROWS BY
FIVE 44 STUDENT AWARD NAMED FOR FORMER DEAN ROBERT SMITH
WINTER 2021 49 REMEMBERING KENNEDY FAMILY ADVISOR GERARD DOHERTY
�SUFFOLK
LAW
CONTENTS
Dean
Andrew Perlman
Executive Editor
Greg Gatlin
Editor-in-Chief
Michael Fisch
Associate Editor
Katy Ibsen
Design
Jenni Leiste
Contributing Writers
Kara Baskin
Beth Brosnan
Alyssa Giacobbe
Jon Gorey
Mark Potts
Contributing Photographers
Michael J. Clarke
Adam Johnson
Copy Editor
Janet Parkinson
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Suffolk Law Alumni Magazine is
published once a year by Suffolk
University Law School. The magazine
is printed by Lane Press in Burlington,
VT. We welcome readers’ comments.
Contact us at 617-573-5751,
mfisch@suffolk.edu, or at Editor, Suffolk
Law Alumni Magazine, 73 Tremont
St., Ste. 1308, Boston, MA 021084977. c 2021 by Suffolk University. All
publication rights reserved.
SUFFOLK LAW
RESPONDS TO THE
HOUSING CRISIS
Tackling Discrimination
and Affordable Housing
Head On
EMPATHY AND
REHABILITATION
Suffolk Law Community
Helps Forge New Paths
for the Courts
28
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A MESSAGE FROM DEAN
ANDREW PERLMAN
04
LAW BRIEFS
12
38
WALK IN MY SHOES:
A Day in the Life of a Black Woman Attorney
PANDEMIC PIVOT
12 Closing the COVID-19
Justice Gap
12 NY Times Highlights
Eviction Relief Tool
13 A Quick Turn Toward
the Virtual Classroom
13 Clinics Forge Ahead in
Face of Pandemic
13 Emergency Fund Helps
Students Impacted by
COVID-19
14
IMPACTFUL ALUMNI
14 Serge Georges, Jr.
Nominated to Supreme
Judicial Court
17 Brett Freedman Advises
Senate Intelligence
Committee
18 Regina Holloway’s
Career in Police
Oversight Takes
a New Turn
19
GIVING BACK
19 Three Alumni Make
$1M Pledges in
Single Year
20 All Rise: Celebrating
Suffolk Law’s Female
Leaders
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20 Posthumous Honors for
Professor Victoria Dodd
20 CATIC Foundation
Supports Acceleratorto-Practice Program
21 Alumni Contributions
With Personal Meaning
21 Ernst Guerrier Pays It
Forward
22
LAW COMMUNITY
22 Diversity, Equity, and
Inclusion at Suffolk Law
25 Transactional Law
Meets Social Justice
26 Dean Perlman Helps
Lead Access-to-Justice
Effort
27 Suffolk Law Launches
Innovative Hybrid
Online JD Program
41 Honoring the Memory
of a Rising Star in
Criminal Justice
42
DEAN’S CABINET
44
RETIREMENTS
45
CLASS NOTES
49
IN MEMORIAM:
GERARD DOHERTY
�MESSAGE
A MESSAGE FROM
DEAN ANDREW
PERLMAN
Dear Suffolk Law Alumni:
The past year is one we will not soon
forget. We have faced a deadly global
pandemic, political polarization, a severe
economic downturn, and a reckoning on
issues of racial and social justice.
Suffolk Law alumni are at the forefront
of tackling these kinds of challenges, and this
issue of the Alumni Magazine covers just some
of their accomplishments. For example,
our graduates are addressing flaws in the
criminal justice system; they are working
within the government, at the federal,
state, and local level, to solve a wide range
of pressing problems; and they are raising
essential concerns about the obstacles that
lawyers of color face in our profession.
Suffolk Law faculty and students are
also playing their part. For instance, just
this year, they have uncovered pervasive
discrimination in the Boston housing market,
led an international effort to automate court
forms for the public while courthouses are
closed, and established a new transactional
clinic that offers legal assistance to small
businesses during difficult economic times.
In these and so many other ways,
the Suffolk Law community is making a
difference in a changing, challenging world.
At the same time, we are carrying out our
core mission of providing an outstanding
legal education to talented students who
want to achieve professional success. Here
are some recent notable developments:
Continuing classes in a pandemic.
In March, we temporarily moved our entire
program online to respond to the public
health crisis. Our faculty and staff then
worked hard over the summer to prepare
for a fall semester that has included a mix
of in-person and online classes that are
interactive, engaging, and delivering on our
educational promise.
An exceptional group of first-year
students. The fall 2020 entering class was
9% larger than we were expecting, and our
409 first-year students have median LSAT
scores (154) and undergraduate GPAs (3.44)
that were the strongest of any Suffolk Law
class in the past 10 years.
Increasing bar pass rates. For the
class of 2020, Suffolk Law’s first-time
bar pass rate in Massachusetts increased
substantially to 80.7%. This is our highest
first-time bar pass rate in six years.
Record-setting
donations.
The
Law School received three $1 million
commitments in one year. These were the
three largest commitments ever made by
living Suffolk Law alumni, and two were
made after the start of the pandemic. We
also now have 45 Dean’s Cabinet members,
each of whom has committed at least
$50,000 to advance the Law School’s work.
These contributions are enhancing our
programs and ensuring that Suffolk Law
remains affordable to everyone regardless
of financial circumstances.
Top rankings in experiential
education. Suffolk Law is the only school
in the country that has had four top-25
ranked legal skills specialties in U.S. News &
World Report for five years in a row (2017–21
editions).
Diversity, equity, and inclusion. The
national focus on issues of racial and social
justice is reflected in our own community.
For several years, the Law School has been
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making strides to ensure that our community
is diverse and inclusive. This year, we began
taking additional steps in a wide range of
areas, such as admissions, the curriculum,
and hiring, to advance that important work.
Transforming legal education.
Suffolk Law has launched a pioneering new
Hybrid JD Program (HJD). The program,
which had been in the works long before
the pandemic, is the first in the country
to offer full- and part-time students a
traditional in-person first-year classroom
experience, followed by the option of taking
all remaining classes online.
In this issue of the magazine, you will
find more details about these developments
as well as stories about the many ways
that all of you—Suffolk Law alumni—are
making a difference.
Thank you for everything that you do,
both through your professional impact
and your contributions to Suffolk Law.
Together, we are advancing the Law
School’s longstanding mission of providing
an exceptional, practice-oriented legal
education that enables our graduates to
make a difference in the world. That mission
has never been more important.
Warmest regards,
Andrew Perlman
�SUFFOLK LAW BY THE NUMBERS
ONE
TEN
373
45
ONE
IN
The incoming class has the
best academic credentials
of any in the last 10 years.
OF
Governor Baker has nominated Suffolk
Law alum and adjunct faculty member
Judge Serge Georges, Jr. JD’96 to the
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. If
confirmed, Judge Georges would become
the third Suffolk Law graduate to join the
Commonwealth’s seven-member high
court in the last four years, joining Elspeth
Cypher JD’86 and Frank Gaziano JD’89.
The number of Dean’s Cabinet members.
Each has committed $50,000 or more to
Suffolk Law.
FIRST
THIRTY
new $1 million
commitments in
the last year.
THE ONLY LAW SCHOOL WITH FOUR TOP-25 LEGAL
SKILLS PROGRAMS FOR FIVE YEARS IN A ROW, U.S.
NEWS & WORLD REPORT (2017–21 EDITIONS).
IN
10 months after graduation, the Class of
2019 had the best employment outcomes
of any graduating Suffolk Law class in at
least 30 years.
LEGAL
WRITING
5
#
3
CLINICS
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TRIAL
ADVOCACY
20
#
DISPUTE
RESOLUTION
#
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�LAW
BRIEFS
GRANTS
$1 MILLION GOVERNMENT GRANT
PROPELS FAIR HOUSING EFFORT
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
has awarded Suffolk’s Housing Discrimination Testing Program
(HDTP) a three-year grant totaling more than $1 million to
continue its nationally recognized work. In addition to training
the next generation of civil rights attorneys, the HDTP has
uncovered widespread discrimination against tenants in the
Boston area on the basis of race, the use of housing vouchers,
and other protected categories. Since 2012, the program has
received $4.2 million in grant funding to support its work.
NATIONAL HONORS FOR
S
am Faisal JD’20 was
named a finalist for the
National Jurist 2020 Law
Student of the Year. The honor
is given to just 10 students across
the country.
“Sam has this great quality
of being gentle, at ease, and
warm yet tenacious,” Professor
Ragini Shah, director of
the Immigration Clinic, told
National Jurist. “Whether he’s
helping clients in the immigrant
community, teaching high
school kids through our
Marshall Brennan Program, or
advocating for fellow students,
he brings that warmth and
determination to bear—and
good things happen.”
During his 1L summer,
Faisal volunteered in Boston
Municipal Court, working
with indigent clients and
attempting to get their cases
THE PEW CHARITABLE
TRUSTS TURNS TO SUFFOLK
In response to the pandemic, Suffolk’s Legal Innovation &
Technology Lab created mobile-friendly guided interviews that
walk litigants through court forms without the need for physical
contact; think Turbo Tax, but for legal issues like a restraining
order. With support from The Pew Charitable Trusts, the Lab
is building tools that last beyond the pandemic, to bring data
from those court forms directly into a court’s case management
system. That means court employees will not need to fill in case
data by hand, speeding up court response times and simplifying
processes for pro se litigants. Most importantly, it offers the
potential to revolutionize data collection and analysis in trial
courts throughout the country.
dismissed. He went nine for 12
on the dismissals, National Jurist
reported.
Faisal served as a mentor
in the Law School’s Marshall
Brennan Program, commuting
a few times a week to instruct
a public high school class in
constitutional law. One of his
students went on to win the
preeminent high school moot
court—with federal judges
deciding the final round.
In the last five years, Suffolk
Law has made the Student of
the Year shortlist four times.
Last year, National Jurist honored
Justin Rhuda JD’19, noting that
he helped stop the eviction of a
former U.S. Army prisoner of
war and his family, who were
facing homelessness. Rhuda was
a U.S. Marine Corps captain
from 2010 to 2015, stationed for
two years in the Persian Gulf.
IN THE MEDIA
“DEADLY FORCE BEHIND THE WHEEL”
WASHINGTON POST, AUGUST 24, 2020
Professor Emerita Karen Blum addresses a
controversial police driving maneuver used to end car
chases. Blum and Suffolk Law students filed a brief
in a Supreme Court case brought by a man who was
paralyzed in 2001 during an attempted “precision
immobilization technique” by a Georgia police officer.
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CIVIC-MINDED STUDENT
�LAW BRIEFS
BUILD IT AND
THEY WILL COME
ALUMNA DESIGNS DIVERSIONARY PROGRAMS APP
D
efense attorneys, especially when
they’re handling low-level offenses
like small-quantity drug possession
and petty theft, often ask judges to divert
their clients into social programs—such
as substance abuse treatment or group
therapy—to avoid a criminal record.
They do that in part because the effects
of a criminal record can be so far-reaching:
ineligibility for college scholarships
or financial aid, lost opportunities for
employment, and denials for private and
public housing.
While working in Suffolk’s Juvenile
Defender Clinic, Nicole Siino JD’18 saw
how difficult it was to find her clients
a place in treatment or job programs
before they were arraigned, and her
student colleagues and public defenders
experienced the same problem.
“I sat in court and listened to judges,
attorneys, and probation officers talk about
dozens of programs designed to help juveniles
succeed and discovered that there was no
master list of community-based resources.
No place to go to do a comprehensive search
where you could learn about programs and
determine if they had openings,” she says.
The idea that young people would lose
an opportunity for professional help and a
shot at redemption largely because lawyers
and social workers didn’t have a basic web
resource seemed wrong.
So she conquered her fear of coding,
turning to Suffolk Legal Innovation
& Technology (LIT) Lab teachers for
instruction. And then she built the tool
she envisioned, the Juvenile Resource
Finder. Today, Massachusetts attorneys
(and anyone else, for that matter) can
check her app on their phones from a
courtroom—and help their clients avoid
the potentially devastating effects of a
criminal record.
Siino is a consultant focusing on legal innovation
and technology at Fireman & Company. Find her
app at bit.ly/NicoleApp2020.
NEW DEGREE
PROGRAM FOR LIFE
SCIENCES LAW
In collaboration with Suffolk’s
Sawyer Business School and the
College of Arts & Sciences, the Law
School has launched a new Master of
Science in Law: Life Sciences degree.
The interdisciplinary program is
designed to help students secure jobs
and advance careers in the life sciences,
one of the nation’s fastest-growing fields
for job growth. A 2019 Massachusetts
Biotechnology Education Foundation
report indicates that the state does not
have enough suitably trained workers for
available life sciences positions and that
filling openings often takes more than
three months as employers compete to
hire promising candidates.
QUESTIONS?
Contact Jennifer Karnakis at
jkarnakis@suffolk.edu.
PROFESSOR EARNS ABA
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
A
t an event headlined by Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Illinois Attorney
General Kwame Raoul, Suffolk Law Professor Janice C. Griffith received a
Lifetime Achievement award from the American Bar Association Section of
State and Local Government Law for her years of service and impressive professional
accomplishments. She began her career as an associate with the Wall Street firm Hawkins,
Delafield & Wood, then served as general counsel for New York City’s Housing and
Development Administration. Griffith also served as Suffolk University’s Vice President
for Academic Affairs and dean of Georgia State University College of Law.
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�LAW BRIEFS
IN THE MEDIA
NEW SUFFOLK LAW FACULTY
ON ISSUES THAT MATTER
“TELL US ABOUT A LEGAL ISSUE THAT IS ANIMATING YOU.”
NEW PROFESSORS WEIGH IN
JENNIFER
CIARIMBOLI
LIVING TOGETHER?
YOU MAY NEED SOME
LEGAL ADVICE
A recent study by the Pew
Research Center has found for the
first time that the percentage of
people cohabiting is higher than the
percentage of married couples.
In March, Boston News 25 turned
to family law expert Professor
Maritza Karmely to ask if she had
any legal advice for people living
together.
She had several recommendations:
Put your names on all assets. Hire
an attorney for four important
documents—your house deed, your
will, a power of attorney for financial
decisions, and a health care proxy.
Marriage provides tax benefits as
well as safeguards if couples decide
to split up, she added. For example,
unmarried fathers have fewer rights
than married fathers when it comes
to custody, at least until a judge gets
involved.
STEPHEN
CODY
Assistant Professor of Academic Support
BA, Boston University
JD, University of Notre Dame Law School
Assistant Professor
BA, Temple University
MPhil, Cambridge University
JD, PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Ciarimboli served as in-house counsel at
Re:Sources and at Sapient Corporation,
where she advised on a variety of global
legal issues, including contracts and
compliance. Prior to working in-house, she
was an associate at Goodwin Procter LLP.
Remote bar complexities
“Due to the pandemic, 2020 graduates
dealt with months of changes to the dates
and format of the bar examination. Most
students took a remotely administered
test in October rather than a live exam in
the summer. I’m thinking a lot about how
those changes impacted our students,
whether they disproportionately affected
particular groups, and how I can support
our future graduates who are dealing
with continuing uncertainty around the
administration of the exam.”
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Before coming to Suffolk Law, Cody
was a research director at Berkeley Law’s
Human Rights Center and prosecuted
criminal cases for the U.S. Attorney’s
Office (Eastern District, California).
His interviews with hundreds of child
soldiers and other survivors have helped
determine how best to prepare, support,
and protect witnesses who testify against
perpetrators of mass violence.
Supporting witnesses of war crimes
“Witnesses are the lifeblood of
international criminal trials. Most victims
and witnesses have survived killings,
torture, or the destruction of their homes.
For many, testifying in a war crimes trial
requires an act of great courage, especially
when perpetrators still walk the streets
of their villages and towns. Criminal
prosecutors must be part of national and
international efforts to support and protect
victims and witnesses and help to restore
communities affected by violence.”
�LAW BRIEFS
MAURICE
DYSON
ALI ROD
KHADEM
CARLOS M.
TEUSCHER
Assistant Clinical Professor
Director, Transactional Clinic
BS, University of Southern California
JD, Georgetown University Law Center
Assistant Professor
BA, MA, JD, University of California, Berkeley
MA, PhD, Harvard University
Dyson practiced law with Simpson
Thacher & Bartlett LLP, where he
specialized in mergers and acquisitions,
securities, and leveraged buyouts valued
at over $166 billion. He participated in
landmark pro bono school-finance litigation,
winning a $14 billion judgment that was
upheld on appeal. He also led federal civil
rights enforcement as the Special Projects
team attorney for the U.S. Department of
Education’s Office for Civil Rights.
Photographs from left: Adobe, Michael J. Clarke (5)
Professor
BA, Columbia University
JD, Columbia Law School
Khadem has worked as an associate in
King & Spalding’s Middle East and Islamic
finance group; as an associate in Linklaters’
China mergers and acquisitions group;
as a senior director for global strategic
relationships at Westport Innovations; and as
a senior vice president for Asia and Middle
East strategy at Macquarie Capital. He
speaks several languages, including Arabic,
Mandarin Chinese, Farsi, and French.
Teuscher was a lecturer and clinical
instructor at Harvard Law School, where
he directed the community enterprise
project of the transactional law clinics.
Before joining Harvard Law, he worked
on domestic and international finance,
mergers and acquisitions, and other
commercial transactions at Linklaters LLP
and Dechert LLP.
Collaboration in a “post-truth” era
“In our so-called post-truth era, we are
experiencing increasing polarization around
fundamental existential questions, whether
they be related to the pandemic, climate
change, religion, race, gender, or nuclear
threat. If information is part of the commons,
then how does pollution of the information
ecology (whether through misinformation,
misunderstanding, or cognitive overload)
undermine the possibilities for agreement and
collaboration? And what new modalities are
needed, at the levels of the individual and the
collective, for resolving the ensuing conflicts?”
“A horrible year”
“COVID-19, the murders of Breonna
Taylor and George Floyd, murder hornets,
and now raging fires along the West Coast.
2020 has been a horrible year. Regardless,
people have come together in different
ways to support each other. Mutual
aid networks have sprung up across the
country, including in the Greater Boston
area, to support immigrants and other
oppressed groups with money, labor, and
education programs, among others. Tax,
business, employment, immigration—the
legal issues are vast!”
Saying no to the “hired gun”
“We often seek a ‘hired gun,’ but we
should advocate for the ‘hired dove’ attorney
to engage in creative problem solving as a
deliberate peacemaker, using restraint,
reconciliation, and healing rather than acting
as instruments to perpetuate malice and
bitterness. As such, the hired dove lawyering
model, first put forth by Professor Mary C.
Szto, gives us a more effective manner for
empathic cooperation in the practice of law,
uniting parties riven asunder by conflict to
reach lasting compromises built on mutual
respect and need.”
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�LAW BRIEFS
LEGAL 500
R
RECOGNITION FROM THE
NATIONAL BLACK
PRE-LAW
CONFERENCE
RECOGNIZES RECENT
GRADUATE
ecognition by The Legal
500 typically takes years
of building a career and
clientele. An organic chemist
turned Suffolk Law student has
accomplished the feat while
still in law school.
Paul R. Fleming JD’20, who
serves as a patent agent with
Dechert LLP, was recognized
this year by The Legal 500 U.S.
for his patent prosecution work.
“The partner I worked with
said that it’s a big deal,” says
Fleming, who received his PhD
from MIT and did his postdoc
at the National Institutes of
Health before working as a
scientist for AstraZeneca. “I
think my background in the
pharmaceutical industry really
helped me. I am able to help
clients because I understand
Suffolk Law was recognized at
the 15th-anniversary celebration
of the Annual National Black PreLaw Conference & Law Fair with that
organization’s “Outstanding Law School
Diversity Outreach Award.”
The school’s admissions outreach and focus
on diversity pipeline programs contributed to the honor. One
example of the pipeline in action is recent graduate Sam Faisal
JD’20. As a public high school student in Boston, Faisal wasn’t
thinking of becoming an attorney until he began receiving lessons
in constitutional law from two Suffolk Law students. His mentors
were serving as Marshall Brennan fellows, teaching subjects like free
speech in the high school context, search and seizure law, and civil
rights in police encounters.
drug discovery so well; it’s
deeply ingrained in my
system.”
His work as a staff scientist
at Choate, Hall & Stewart with
Andrea Reid JD’06, a former
chemist herself, helped inspire
his own transition to law. The
two continue to work together
today at Dechert.
“It definitely took me some
time to get comfortable making
the switch from research to
being a patent agent. That’s a
big switch,” he says. “So, for me,
it was really gratifying to see that
the clients appreciated the work
I did and found that I was a
valuable part of their team.”
Through Suffolk Law’s new
Accelerated JD Program,
Fleming completed his JD a
year and a half early.
IN THE MEDIA
NIGHTLINE AND ESQUIRE COVER
SUFFOLK LAW HOUSING STUDY
On July 1, the Boston Globe reported that undercover
investigations by Suffolk Law’s Housing Discrimination
Testing Program (HDTP) “found that Black people posing
as prospective tenants were shown fewer apartments than
whites and offered fewer incentives to rent, and that real
estate agents often cut off contact when the renters gave
Black-sounding names like Lakisha, Tyrone, or Kareem.”
The HDTP study was also covered in Esquire, The
Chronicle of Higher Education, on NPR, and cited on ABC
News Nightline.
SUFFOLK HELPS
LAUNCH NATIONAL
POLICING CONSORTIUM
Dean Andrew Perlman helped lead the creation of the ABA-Legal
Education Police Practices Consortium, which launched in October.
The Consortium is creating opportunities for more than 50 law
schools across the country to work with the ABA and local, state, and
national stakeholders to improve police practices, from use of force
policies to training and oversight.
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�LAW BRIEFS
MICHAEL J. NICHOLSON:
MAYOR BY DAY,
LAW STUDENT
BY NIGHT
Photographs from left: Adobe, Michael J. Clarke
A
s Suffolk Law students
navigate law school,
there’s a lot to think
about. For some, there are work
responsibilities, babies to feed,
parents to care for. Michael J.
Nicholson, Class of 2021, is
only 26 years old and running a
small city. He was elected mayor
of Gardner, Massachusetts, this
summer.
Since his election, he’s been
working through all manner of
thorny problems, including a
truncated $70 million city budgetplanning process and making
an educated decision about how
the state would likely fund cities
despite its own pandemic-related
budget challenges.
Nicholson and Gardner’s
school superintendent worked
through four separate plans
required by the state to get the
city’s students back to school
safely this fall. Gardner, a city
of about 20,000, lies 57 miles
west of Boston. By charter, the
Gardner mayor serves as chair
of the school committee.
As part of the city’s hybrid
schooling
model,
Nicholson
proposed the city start off with two
weeks of remote learning for all
students. “That two weeks up front
allowed us to see how other districts
were faring, what mistakes or blips
were happening, so we could avoid
those. It made the learning curve a
little less steep,” he says.
It’s no surprise that he’s been
thinking back to lessons from his
favorite Suffolk Law professors,
including Judge Serge Georges,
Jr. JD’96 and Professor Anthony
Polito. “I’m responsible for
managing the procurement
process for the city,” Nicholson
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THREE
SUFFOLK
LAW
STUDENTS
WON
LOCAL
ELECTION
RACES IN
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says. “Professor Polito helped me
see the whole system, how we got to
the process that we use to set a city’s
excise and property tax numbers.”
Nicholson’s Government Lawyer
class included some equally politically
minded students who ran for office
in Massachussetts—for example,
33-year-old Meghan K. Kilcoyne,
Class of 2021, who was elected state
representative for the 12th Worcester
District. Another classmate, 31-yearold Michael J. Owens, Class of
2021, served for four years as a
town councilor in Braintree. And
another Suffolk Law student, John J.
Cronin, Class of 2022, was elected
state senator for the Worcester and
Middlesex District.
Before becoming mayor, Nicholson
served as town administrator of
Rutland, Massachusetts, and as top
aide for then-mayor of Gardner,
Mark Hawke.
�LAW BRIEFS
SUFFOLK LAW
STUDENT WINS
PATENT AWARD
W
hile working as an investigator in oral biology at Boston
University, Eva Helmerhorst, Class of 2021, discovered that
a naturally occurring oral bacteria, Rothia mucilaginosa, can
break down gluten proteins. Her discovery and forthcoming inventions
will create a natural therapy for individuals with celiac disease or other
forms of gluten intolerance.
Going through the patent process spurred Helmerhorst’s interest in
law, she says: “I was in contact a lot with the Office of Technology
Development during the time, and this is how I actually became
interested in patent law.”
Helmerhorst, who holds a doctorate in oral biochemistry, was
recognized in 2019 as one of 13 honorees at the Boston Patent Law
Association’s 9th Annual Invented Here! Awards, and was one of four
honorees invited to share more about their work.
“I remember one of the questions I was asked was: ‘How do you
get to a discovery?’ My answer was ‘Just let your brain wander and
see where it goes and make connections’ ... because, when I found the
enzyme ... it was kind of an accidental discovery. It often goes like that,”
says the Suffolk Law 4L evening student.
Helmerhorst’s journey from science to IP law is not uncommon at
Suffolk Law. In a typical year, more than a dozen entering students hold
a PhD, many in STEM fields. They often pursue patent law, one of the
reasons that 30% of Boston-area patent lawyers are Suffolk Law alumni.
THE
DOCTOR
IS IN
35 PhDs ENROLLED AT SUFFOLK LAW
The incoming Law School class boasts 14
PhDs, 46 students with graduate degrees, and
even a nuclear engineer. While impressive,
this is not unusual. In recent years, Suffolk
Law has attracted an increasing number
of students with advanced degrees, with 35
PhDs currently enrolled.
“Many of these students have graduate
degrees in STEM fields, and they know
that the Law School has a terrific local
and national reputation in IP law,” says
Professor Rebecca Curtin, co-director of the
Intellectual Property Concentration. “Many
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of these students already have jobs in law
firms working on patent matters, so they
need to go to law school at night. We pair an
outstanding IP program with a highly ranked
evening program. It’s a perfect match.”
Many attend Suffolk Law for the IP
Concentration, which is one of the largest
and most developed of its kind in the
country, offering a patent law specialization
and a full range of IP courses—patents,
copyright, trademarks, trade secrets, and
licensing—to introduce students to the
diversity of the field.
�LAW BRIEFS
NEW GROUP
ASSISTS FIRST-GEN
STUDENTS
Michael Murray (right), in his previous position as the AHL executive
vice president of hockey operations, presents the AHL Playoff
MVP award (Jack A. Butterfield Trophy) to Andrew Poturalski of the
Charlotte Checkers following their AHL Calder Cup championship
during the 2018-19 season.
ACHIEVING HIS
NHL DREAM
ALUMNUS JOINS THE MINNESOTA WILD
Photographs from left: Courtesy of Carly Gillis Photography , AHL File Photo
M
ichael Murray JD’08 has been named assistant to the general
manager of the National Hockey League’s Minnesota
Wild. In his new role, Murray will assist in the day-to-day
responsibilities of the Wild’s hockey operations department, including
contract negotiations, scouting, and player development. He will also
support hockey operations for the American Hockey League’s (AHL)
Iowa Wild.
Hockey is part of Murray’s DNA—he first wore skates and handled
a hockey stick when he was 3 years old. He played at Dartmouth
and for two seasons professionally, and his father, Bob Murray, was
part of Boston University’s 1971 and 1972 NCAA championship
teams. Murray was previously the executive vice president of hockey
operations for the AHL.
“You can never have too many smart people around you, especially
during these unprecedented times,” said Wild General Manager Bill
Guerin. “Between Michael’s education and experience in the hockey
world ... he will help make our organization better.”
Murray says he wouldn’t have achieved his dream of working in the
NHL without his Suffolk Law degree, noting that he regularly applies
the lessons he learned in courses like sports, labor, and employment
law. “I think one of the best things about Suffolk is the diversity of the
faculty and the ability to learn from their personal and professional
experiences,” he said. “Their firsthand knowledge and expertise is
invaluable.”
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Lauren Bertino, Class of 2022, a first-generation law student,
said imposter syndrome set in on her first day of classes last fall.
“I realized I had no idea what was going on,” she says. And she
wasn’t alone. “There are plenty of students around me, especially
at Suffolk … who don’t have an uncle or a family friend to tell
them what to expect [when attending law school].”
This experience led Bertino, along with her 2L classmates
Melanie Stallone, Cassandra Munoz, and James Lockett, to create
the First Generation Law Student Association and its podcast
“Firsthand from FirstGen” to support other first-generation law
students in understanding the nuances of law school.
The podcast delivers insights from other students, faculty, and
alumni. “Firsthand from FirstGen” is working on more episodes
now and seeking out alumni for interviews.
“Suffolk is well-known for its strong alumni network,” Bertino
says. “That is why I came to Suffolk in the first place and why
it is such an especially good place for first-gen students. When
I was looking to see whether I wanted to even go to law school,
I spoke to Suffolk alumni who were so willing to just say, ‘Yeah,
here’s the deal.’”
Episodes 1 and 2 of “Firsthand from FirstGen” can be
found on Spotify, tinyurl.com/suffolkfirstgen. Alumni
interested in participating can email the organization at
sulsfirstgen@gmail.com.
IN THE MEDIA
“‘WET’ INK SIGNATURES REQUIREMENTS
MAY FADE AFTER CORONAVIRUS”
BLOOMBERG LAW, APRIL 10, 2020
With the logistical challenges of meeting in person
during a pandemic, many states are moving away from
requiring “wet signatures.” Professor Gabe Teninbaum
JD’05 explains why this idea is long overdue. He argues
that wet signatures remain a common practice, like a lot
of legal practice processes, simply because of inertia.
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�PANDEMIC
PIVOT
A TEAM GATHERS ACROSS FIVE CONTINENTS.
WATCH NBC 10 COVERAGE AT bit.ly/LITLabNBC
Clinical fellow
Quinten Steenhuis
interviewed by NBC
10 about the court
forms project
CLOS ING THE COVID-19
JUSTICE GAP
By Michael Fisch
I
magine a woman living with an abusive partner,
isolated for months during the pandemic shutdown.
Eventually, she goes to the local courthouse to get
help, but the doors are locked when she arrives—
because of the pandemic, Massachusetts courts are
closed to the public except for emergencies. She waits
outside for hours, until a clerk finally comes with a stack
of complex papers for her to complete on her own.
“Unfortunately, this actually happened,” says
Quinten Steenhuis, a legal technologist and clinical
fellow in Suffolk’s Legal Innovation & Technology
(LIT) Lab. “It’s a problem that was foreseen by Ralph
Gants, the late chief justice of the Supreme Judicial
Court [SJC], at the start of the COVID-19 crisis. He
put out a call for ideas to increase public access to the
courts, and the LIT Lab answered that call.”
Within weeks, the SJC’s Access to Justice
Commission COVID-19 Task Force’s Access to
Courts Committee, co-chaired by LIT Lab director
David Colarusso, had started tackling the question of
how people facing legal emergencies
could access the court from home.
The answer: court forms that
could be filled out and submitted to
the courts entirely via mobile phones.
Simply placing existing court forms
online wouldn’t get the job done.
The forms would need to walk users
through complex legal questions, in the
same way that TurboTax simplifies tax
documents, and provide a way to be
submitted without the usual printing
and signing requirements.
By the end of April, the LIT Lab had
recruited a group of 100 volunteers across
five continents: coders, user experience
experts, designers, lawyers, linguists
offering translation services, and the LIT
Lab’s own committed student team.
Working at rapid speed, the team
launched MassAccess in June with
an initial array of forms. The project
is a remarkable feat, both for its swift
turnaround and its $0 price tag for the
courts. Without the volunteer army,
Colarusso estimates the project could
have cost over $1 million.
The mobile forms address legal
issues from restraining orders to
unlawful eviction and even “breach
of quiet enjoyment”—say, when a
landlord won’t repair a sewage leak in
your kitchen. The creation of court
forms in other legal areas, such as
consumer debt, education, health, and
guardianship, is ongoing.
“In the U.S., even before the
pandemic, a majority of people faced
their civil legal emergencies without
a lawyer,” said Suffolk Law Dean
Andrew Perlman—a problem called
the justice gap.
Additionally, many courts have forms
that must be printed out, filled in by
hand, and delivered to a courthouse or
scanned and submitted to the court, said
Steenhuis. “But many people don’t have
a printer or scanner at home, and they
don’t have access to a library right now—
or a retail store’s computer station,” he
noted. These are some of the hurdles that
the mobile tools overcome.
And because the framework for the
mobile app, Docassemble, is open to
anyone, technologists in other states will
have a leg up in creating similar forms
for their courts.
“This project is extremely helpful,”
said Jorge Colon, a court service center
manager with the Massachusetts Trial
Courts. “When people call to receive
assistance at the Court Service Center, we
can refer them to the different tools that
this project has created, and they are able
to do the same things that they could do
at the courthouse through this project.”
View the MassAccess project
forms at courtformsonline.org.
NY TIMES HIGHLIGHTS EVICTION RELIEF TOOL
Millions of Americans have been
facing the very real possibility of
eviction—in the middle of winter, with a
pandemic spiking.
This fall, the Suffolk LIT Lab released a free online tool that has
helped thousands of tenants across the nation determine whether
they qualify for eviction relief, based on the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention’s (CDC) eviction moratorium order.
If a renter qualifies, the tool produces a customized letter that
can be sent to their landlords, as CDC rules stipulate. In September,
The New York Times featured the tool in its primer on the topic, “The
New Eviction Moratorium: What You Need to Know.”
At press time, the CDC eviction reprieve covers qualified renters
through December 31.
Check out the tool at courtformsonline.org.
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�PA N D E M I C P I V O T
CLINICS FORGE AHEAD IN
FACE OF PANDEMIC
A QUICK TURN TOWARD
While the COVID-19 pandemic has upended the traditional faceto-face interactions of Suffolk Law’s 11 clinical programs, students have
found creative ways to help their clients.
THE VIRTUAL
CLASSROOM
The Legal Innovation & Technology Lab created cell phone-guided
interviews that walk pro se litigants through complex court forms.
The team’s effort drew media attention, including a television
segment on NBC Boston.
Photographs from left: Michael Fisch , Michael J. Clarke, Adobe
W
hile COVID-19 has created widespread
hardship, it is also driving rapid innovation—
including at Suffolk Law School, says Professor
Gabe Teninbaum JD’05.
As the recently appointed assistant dean of innovation,
strategic initiatives, and distance education, Teninbaum knew
that the fundamentals of a Suffolk legal education would
remain the same whether faculty and students were miles apart
on a Zoom call or six feet away in a Sargent Hall classroom.
But because the two experiences can feel very different,
he’s made it a priority to get faculty the resources they need
to make their remote classes more intimate and interactive,
as well as rich in content.
Law librarians now serve as “tech guides” or, more formally,
library distance education liaisons, assisting faculty with
the finer details of remote teaching. Faculty tech facilitators
(FTFs), hired students, are the virtual world’s new teaching
assistants, serving as an extra set of eyes to help professors.
Faculty, in turn, are gaining a sense of the new medium’s
unique rhythm and how to incorporate digital tools—from
instant polling of students to building in commentary from
experts around the world.
“So far,” says Teninbaum, “it’s gone terrifically, because
we have a staff and faculty working together to put students’
needs first.”
Students in the newly created Transactional Clinic are working on
legal documents that set out the governance and financial structure
of Puntada, an immigrant women’s worker cooperative that
produces face masks and other personal protective equipment.
In April, the Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples Clinic learned
that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights had
referred their case against the government of Guatemala, addressing
persistent government raids of indigenous community radio stations,
to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. The Clinic’s student
attorneys drafted and submitted a lengthy merits brief to the Court
in October. Expert witnesses will include UN Special Rapporteurs
and Suffolk Law Professor Lorie Graham.
As the Massachusetts District Attorney’s Offices faced court closures,
the Prosecutors Clinic has jumped in to assist. Working in 17 courts with
five Massachusetts District Attorney’s Offices, students have created
COVID-specific templated motions, flowcharts, and analyses to help
criminal cases proceed without undue delay as litigation resumes.
The Accelerator Practice represented a mother with a housing voucher
who faced discrimination for over a year as she sought in vain to rent an
apartment for herself and her two disabled children. The Accelerator
Practice and the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office negotiated
settlements for the family with several of the offending housing providers.
EMERGENCY FUND HELPS STUDENTS IMPACTED BY COVID-19
One law student, the mother
of a toddler, was laid off from fulltime work. Another was unable to
find summer legal employment or
find work as a nanny to make extra
income. A third lost his regular gig
as an Uber driver. These are just a
few of the reasons why students have
applied for grants through the Suffolk
Law CARES Emergency Fund.
The Fund—made possible
through the generosity of alumni,
faculty, and staff members—aims
to help support law students facing
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financial challenges brought on by
the pandemic. As of September 24,
$33,200 in grants had been awarded
to students in need.
To support Suffolk Law Cares
visit app.mobilecause.com/vf/
SUCARES
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�IMPACTFUL
ALUMNI
SERGE
GEORGES, JR.
NOMINATED
TO SUPREME
JUDICIAL
COURT
SUPREME JUDICIAL
COURT NOMINEE HAS A
REPUTATION FOR LEGAL
BRILLIANCE—AND FOR
TREATING EVERYONE WITH
DIGNITY AND RESPECT
By Beth Brosnan
�I M PA C T F U L A L U M N I
Photograph by Michael J. Clarke
O
ver the course of his 25-year legal
career, Judge Serge Georges, Jr.
JD’96 has earned a reputation as a
remarkably gifted communicator.
Whether he’s talking with professional
colleagues, defendants in his Dorchester
courtroom, or his students at Suffolk Law,
Judge Georges is the kind of person who
can connect with his listeners and cut to the
heart of the matter, says Suffolk Law Dean
Andrew Perlman.
Yet for a few brief moments this fall,
Georges, 50, found himself speechless.
On November 17, Governor Charlie
Baker announced Georges’ nomination to
the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
At a State House press conference, the
governor praised Georges not only for his
legal brilliance, but also for the humanity
he has brought to his work as both a Boston
Municipal Court judge and a teacher at
Suffolk Law.
“Many lawyers say he’s their favorite
judge,” Baker said. “Not because he gives
them the answer they want, but because
he knows the law, does his homework,
and treats everyone in his courtroom with
dignity and respect.”
Stepping to the microphone, Georges
paused to collect himself. After thanking
the governor, he said, “I can’t adequately
express what this means to me—I just
don’t have the words.” As a young HaitianAmerican boy growing up in Dorchester, he
added, “I would never have dreamed this
was possible.”
Yet Georges has spent his life believing
in the possible—including in the classroom,
where he has mentored law students, and
in the courtroom, where he has earned a
reputation for making litigants feel listened
to, fairly treated, and able to move forward
with their lives. As the governor put it, “It
seems clear that no matter when Judge
Georges becomes your friend and colleague,
that relationship will last.”
“None of us get to where we are alone,”
Georges said a few days later. “I try to give
people the opportunity to be successful.”
Proud, Joyful Tears
If confirmed in early December, he
will join two other Suffolk Law graduates
on the seven-member court: Justices Frank
Gaziano JD’89 and Elspeth Cypher JD’86.
Even more significantly, he will become only
the fourth Black person ever to serve on the
328-year-old SJC.
Georges’ longtime friend, Suffolk Trustee
Ernst Guerrier BS’91, JD’94, a HaitianAmerican who grew up in Mattapan, wept
when he heard the news.
“Serge’s appointment was a great day for
Suffolk, and for our diverse community,” he
says. “It signifies everything that we preach.
You can grow up in Dorchester or Mattapan
or Roxbury or Jamaica Plain, and if you are
given the opportunity and work hard, you
can reach the highest level.”
Cherina D. Wright JD/MBA’17—the
law school’s assistant dean for diversity,
equity, and inclusion, who first met Georges
when she was president of Suffolk’s Black
Law Students Association—was also moved
to “proud, joyful tears.”
While plenty of systemic racial barriers
remain, she says, “I hope this helps Suffolk
Law students, especially our students of
color, realize the sky is the limit. Serge is
proof of that.”
University President Marisa Kelly calls
Georges “a role model for our students,
someone who embodies our very highest
ideals. And in a period when our country
is wrestling with criminal justice reform, he
brings a deep understanding of how different
communities navigate our legal system.”
Dean Perlman points out that Georges’
tenure on the Boston Municipal Court
will provide “an often under-represented
perspective” for the Supreme Judicial
Court, whose members are rarely drawn
from the district and municipal courts. “His
professional experiences, particularly those
involving the civil and criminal legal issues
that individuals regularly encounter, will be
especially valuable to the court,” he said.
“WHAT SERGE HAS
DONE FOR THE PAST
SEVEN YEARS IS LIKE
PRACTICING LAW
IN THE ER. HE HAS
PRESIDED OVER THE
BUSIEST COURT IN
THE COMMONWEALTH,
AND HE’S DONE SO
WITH INTELLIGENCE,
COMPASSION, AND
COMMITMENT.”
–Ernst Guerrier BS’91, JD’94
Guerrier puts it this way: “What Serge
has done for the past seven years is like
practicing law in the ER. He has presided
over the busiest court in the Commonwealth,
and he’s done so with intelligence,
compassion, and commitment.”
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The early years in Dorchester
Georges was first appointed to the Boston
Municipal Court in 2013 by Governor
Deval Patrick, following more than 15 years
as a trial attorney concentrating in civil
litigation, criminal defense, and professional
licensure and liability.
“I can’t tell you how much it has meant
to me to be a judge in the neighborhood
where I grew up,” he says.
From age 4 until his early 20s, Dorchester
was home. He lived with his parents and
two older sisters in a rented two-bedroom
apartment on Hancock Street in Kane
Square, surrounded by Irish-American,
Cape Verdean, and Puerto Rican families.
He and his friends loved to ride their BMX
bikes through the neighborhood, flying past
the courthouse where Georges would one
day preside.
Education was everything to Georges’
parents, who had left Haiti to avoid political
persecution. His father, Serge Sr., who taught
in the Boston public schools by day, held
down a second job at Honeywell by night,
while his mother, Maryse, worked as a data
entry clerk for the Boston Stock Exchange
and at the Safety Insurance Company, all so
they could afford to send their children to
Catholic schools.
Georges graduated from both Boston
College High School and Boston College,
where he majored in English. (He can still
recite poetry he studied there from memory.)
Having put their three children through
college, Serge Sr. and Maryse Georges
bought their first home, in Randolph, where
they live today. The judge lives nearby, with
his wife, Michelle, and their two daughters.
Yet Dorchester remains home, the place
that taught him “there are a lot of really
good people who get bad breaks,” he says.
It’s a perspective he brings with him to
the courtroom, where he is known for giving
people a chance while also holding them
accountable. “When you are practicing at
the district and municipal court level,” he
says, “you see there are plenty of people
who have just made mistakes and need
some guidance to get back on their feet, stop
committing crimes, and become productive
members of society.”
From 2014 to 2018, he presided over the
Dorchester Drug Court, working with a team
of clinicians, attorneys, police, and parole
officers to provide substance-use offenders
with consistent structure, expectations, and
support. He calls the experience the most
rewarding of his professional life.
“I’ve seen the kind of miracles that come
with sobriety,” he says, “when people who
have lost everything are able to reconnect
with family, find employment and housing.”
After Georges’ SJC nomination was
announced, his email inbox and phone
were flooded with congratulatory messages,
including some from former Drug Court
clients. “It’s ironic they are calling to thank
me,” he says. “I feel I should be thanking
them. This work has given me so much.”
Lighting an intellectual fire
Prior to accepting his nomination
to the SJC, Georges accepted another
honor: Suffolk’s invitation to serve as
Commencement speaker for Suffolk Law’s
Class of 2021, where he will receive an
honorary degree.
An adjunct faculty member since 1999,
Georges has now taught a full generation of
Suffolk Law students. At the start of every
school year, when he leads incoming 1L
students in their oath of professionalism,
he shares how the notorious 1989 Charles
Stuart case galvanized him to study law.
When Stuart shot and killed his pregnant
wife, Suffolk Law alumna Carol DiMaiti
Stuart JD’85, and blamed her death on an
unidentified Black assailant, city officials
spent two months indiscriminately rounding
up Black men and interrogating them.
Boston newspapers called for the restoration
of the death penalty.
Georges still has a copy of that newspaper.
“It’s old and yellow and I’m going to be buried
with it, because it informed the rest of my life,”
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he says. Stuart was eventually revealed to be
the murderer and committed suicide, yet there
was no immediate reckoning, no admission of
how an entire community had been presumed
guilty and deprived of its legal rights.
After graduating from BC in 1992,
Georges enrolled at Suffolk Law. There was,
he says, a warmth to everyone he met, and
the sense that faculty and staff alike cared
deeply about students and wanted them
to succeed. “People would take the time
to check in with you, when things were
going well and when they weren’t,” he says.
“Suffolk was a place you could always come
home to.”
Suffolk also lit a fire under him. “My
professors were the best in the business
and they started my love of the law,” he
says. Friday nights would find him in the
basement of the Archer building, debating
the latest slip opinions with his classmate
and close friend, Hank Brennan JD’96,
now a noted criminal defense attorney. “I’m
a nerd,” he cheerfully admits. “I love the
intellectual stimulation of reading the law
and thinking about how to apply it.”
Today, Georges lights those same fires
under his own students in his courses on
Trial Advocacy, Evidence, and Professional
Responsibility. “He is an exceptional
teacher,” says Dean Perlman. Assistant
Dean Wright adds he’s the kind of professor
“who empowers his students, and gives them
a real sense of ownership of the material.”
If confirmed, Georges will bring all this
with him to the Supreme Judicial Court—
not only “his clear command of the law
and his sharp analytical mind,” says Dean
Perlman, “but also his desire to make a
positive impact on the lives of others.”
The prospect of joining the nation’s
oldest supreme court, operating under
its oldest constitution, renders this most
eloquent of men speechless once more. “I
want to be part of a team that is working
to get it right,” Georges says after a pause.
“For a kid from Kane Square, this means
everything.”
�I M PA C T F U L A L U M N I
“ONE OF MY PASSIONS IS TRYING TO BRIDGE THE
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE DIVIDE THAT EXISTS BETWEEN,
SAY, SILICON VALLEY AND WASHINGTON.”
–Brett Freedman JD’07
BRETT
FREEDMAN
ADVISES SENATE
INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE
By Jon Gorey
Photograph: Courtesy of Aviva Krauthammer
O
n a late December day in 1988, Brett Freedman JD’07
and his family were readying for an overnight flight to
Israel, where they were planning to celebrate 13-yearold Brett’s bar mitzvah. As they packed their bags, anticipation
turned to anxiety when they heard that a passenger jet, Pan-Am
Flight 103, had exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland—killing all
259 people aboard and 11 on the ground in one of the most
deadly airline bombings in history.
“We were watching it on television when the van came to pick
us up to go to the airport,” Freedman recalled. As a suburban
Boston middle-schooler, Freedman says he didn’t grasp the full
dynamics of what was happening at the time, beyond the burning
wreckage on the TV But he could sense and understand his
.
parents’ fear, concern—and resolve. “My mom was upset, and
my dad said, ‘There’s nothing more important than to actually
do this now.’”
Freedman didn’t decide in that moment to pursue a career
in national security, but the experience was influential.
After earning his juris doctor at Suffolk in 2007, Freedman
went on to provide legal counsel at both the National Security
Agency and the National Counter-Terrorism Center in
Washington, DC. Now, he serves as minority counsel for the
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), which oversees
the entire U.S. intelligence community.
Working for Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, the
committee’s Democratic vice chairman, one of Freedman’s top
priorities in most years is to help get the bipartisan Intelligence
Authorization Act (IAA) through Congress—the critical
legislation that authorizes funding and oversight for the nation’s
powerful intelligence apparatus.
Security threats have evolved
since the Lockerbie bombing, of
course, with cybersecurity and
election interference among the
committee’s current concerns.
“There’s certainly a public
knowledge of the efforts by the
Russian Federation and other
countries to interfere [with the
election] in one way, shape, or
form,” Freedman said in October,
citing as examples the spread of
false narratives and innocuoussounding disinformation that
proliferate on social media.
Freedman isn’t on the front
lines of election cybersecurity
and doesn’t consider himself an
especially technical person. “But in
order to be able to put forth policy,
you need to understand the innards
of what’s happening,” he said, so
he’s had to familiarize himself with
technologies like the 5G wireless
standard, artificial intelligence,
and quantum computing—with
some help from the Congressional
Research Service. He also relies on
relationships he’s built with trusted
academics, think tanks, and private
industry leaders.
Recognizing the importance
of these relationships, Freedman
pushed for the most recent IAA
to include a public-private talent
exchange, which would allow
intelligence officials to spend a year
or more immersed at a company in
the private sector and vice versa.
“One of my passions is trying
to bridge the public and private
divide that exists between, say,
Silicon Valley and Washington,” he
said. Through the pilot exchange
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program, a computer scientist
at the NSA could, for example,
spend a year or two working at
Google—honing their skills and
gaining a better understanding
of its culture—while maintaining
their government tenure and
benefits. Meanwhile, an engineer
from the tech industry could take
time to learn how the government
operates—and how to get things
done within its bureaucracy—
without leaving their job.
Freedman hopes that this
cross-pollination of talent could
help the two camps, which are
often at odds, get past what they
read about each other in the news.
These exchange workers can
“meet the people, see what the
mission is, and get a sense of the
challenges facing them,” he said.
Freedman also hopes the
program could open up the
intelligence community to a
more diverse talent pool. If the
intelligence community as an
analytical body does not reflect the
composition of the country and the
globe, decision makers are going to
miss critical nuances, he warned.
Imperfect as U.S. national
security is, Freedman cherishes
his role in keeping people safe,
and feels fortunate to be part
of something much bigger than
either himself or politics.
“I’ve been proud to be a
part of one of, if not the only,
remaining
truly
bipartisan
congressional committees, where
we put our noses down, look at
the issues, and continue to work
together to try to find solutions,”
he said.
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REGINA HOLLOWAY’S
CAREER IN POLICE
OVERSIGHT TAKES A NEW TURN
By Alyssa Giacobbe
R
egina D. Holloway JD’15 began
law school the year someone
close to her went to prison.
She was raising four children, working
a hodgepodge of jobs to make ends
meet, and living in public housing in
Cambridge. Naturally, her life informed
her approach to law.
“Everything I did in law school
had some relationship to my personal
experience,” she says.
At Suffolk, she found support from
faculty and staff, often turning to Professors
Kathleen Engel and Karen M. Blum
JD’74. Blum ignited her interest in criminal
justice reform, specifically civilian oversight.
After working as a clinical fellow in Suffolk’s
Housing Discrimination Testing Program
and as a bar advocate in the Boston District
Courts, Holloway relocated to Chicago.
At the Civilian Office of Police
Accountability there, she worked as
an investigator overseeing “critical
incidents,” including officer-involved
shootings and deaths in custody. The job
was fascinating, yet frustrating.
“There was not a lot of stability,
and these departments ... really need
political will. I just didn’t see it there,”
says Holloway. “It wasn’t the substantial
change I was looking for.”
Next, she worked with a Chicago
neighborhood policing pilot program
founded by New York University law
professor Barry Friedman. The initiative
was designed to help inform policing
priorities with a deeper understanding
of a community’s concerns. While
police might focus on loitering teens,
for example, the community was more
concerned about hidden sex trafficking
of 13- and 14-year-old girls, she says.
“Even when a problem couldn’t be
fixed immediately, which was often the
case, people still felt like they had a better
quality of life,” says Holloway. “Everyone
felt more like they were a part of the
process of police and community.”
She then received an unexpected offer.
Friedman, who serves on the board of
public safety technologies company Axon
(perhaps best known as the makers of
the Taser), approached her this summer
about joining the company.
“I thought it was crazy. I was just like,
what in my life makes you think that I
would work for Axon?,” recalls Holloway,
a Senior Atlantic Fellow for Racial Equity.
But following the murder of George
Floyd and other Black civilians by police,
Axon had expanded its company mission to
include a focus on racial equity, diversity, and
inclusion. Its “Sprint for Justice” initiative
resulted in eight new products to support
transparency and officer development.
Holloway ultimately decided to take
the job as vice president of community
impact. “I think they have started to
realize—and I’m hoping to help them
make good on this realization—that the
community is our customer,” she says.
“And that these products need to be
solving for them, and for their lives.”
She points to one new feature, Axon’s
priority-ranked video audit, as an example.
“Civilian Oversight might get 30
hours of body-worn camera footage.
Trying to piece through that stops the
investigation process, stops people from
finding out whether their complaint went
through,” she says. Using the new tool,
investigators can instead seek out keywords
AA (REGINA HOLLOWAY)
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among hours of footage in as little as 30
minutes, helping them to quickly see what
happened in a specific interaction.
Holloway now helps develop
initiatives that connect Axon with the
communities it hopes to serve, educating
civilians on Axon products while learning
about their specific safety concerns. She’ll
also work with police departments seeking
training in nonlethal weapons and other
de-escalation tools and practices.
Next year, she will assemble a
community coalition that includes
members from the mental health,
philanthropy, and educational fields to
examine Axon’s products with a racial
equity toolkit. The goal is that community
groups will help the company develop
products that are less likely to result in
injury or escalation to use of force, and
Axon product teams will begin to view their
products through a more equitable lens.
“My hope is that it will be training
on both sides,” Holloway says. Axon
employees are going to need to do their
part, she points out. “I can’t be the constant
reminder of the need for equity.”
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MAKE $1M PLEDGES
IN SINGLE YEAR
ALUMNI INVEST IN
SUFFOLK LAW’S FUTURE
Photographs: Courtesy of Regina Holloway, William G. Hardiman, Tailayah Leche Macklin, Hector Pagan
W
ithin a single year, three different alumni
have committed million-dollar gifts to help
advance Suffolk Law’s mission of delivering
an outstanding, affordable legal education. Two of the
commitments were made after the pandemic began.
“We are deeply grateful for these remarkable
commitments,” said Suffolk University Law School Dean
Andrew Perlman. “They are a testament to the impact of a
Suffolk Law education and the desire of our alumni to give
back and help the next generation of graduates achieve
similar success.”
Most recently, an anonymous donor, who was a firstgeneration college and law school graduate, wanted to
contribute life-changing support to first-generation Suffolk
Law students in an effort to bridge financial gaps that unfairly
burden deserving students. This particular scholarship is
focused on eliminating barriers and widening the pipeline for
first-generation students to enter the legal profession, helping
them thrive as successful and confident lawyers.
Another alum, Warren G. Levenbaum JD’72, has long
supported the Law School as a member of the Dean’s
Cabinet. Levenbaum, founding partner of the West
Coast personal injury law firm Levenbaum Trachtenberg,
recently said, “The true test of lifetime achievement is the
ability to give back, and I am forever grateful to Suffolk Law
School, which has given me this opportunity.”
Last fall, the Law School announced the first of the three
gifts, when Dean’s Cabinet member Barry C. Cosgrove
JD’85 honored the spirit of his wife’s grandmother, Graciela
Rojas-Trabal. She grew up in the Dominican Republic,
and her hard work and ethics were an inspiration to her
family. Today, the Graciela Rojas-Trabal Term Scholarship
Fund supports law students from Cosgrove’s hometown of
Brockton, Massachusetts, as well as law students who have
a significant interest in and knowledge of the Dominican
Republic’s history and culture.
GIVING
BACK
SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS SHARE THE IMPACT OF
THE GRACIELA ROJAS-TRABAL TERM SCHOLARSHIP
WILLIAM G.
HARDIMAN,
CLASS OF 2022
Brockton, Massachusetts
I have wanted to be a lawyer
since I was a freshman in high
school, when I was a member of
my high school’s mock trial team.
During my time as an undergrad,
I interned at the Plymouth County
District Attorney’s Office, which
was an amazing chance to see the
criminal process in action.
Suffolk’s JD/LLM in Taxation
Program really stuck out to me. Being
able to get my JD and LLM in three
years was a no-brainer. After law
school, I plan on practicing tax law.
The scholarship has been
immensely helpful in offsetting the
burden of paying tuition. Barry
Cosgrove and I both attended
Cardinal Spellman High School in
my hometown.
TAILAYAH LECHE
MACKLIN,
CLASS OF 2024
Brockton, Massachusetts
My family has always instilled in
me the value of an education and the
power that comes with knowledge.
I grew up in a community that did
not believe in the criminal justice
system because they felt as though it
failed them. For me, this was hard to
SUMMA DONORS
grasp. I knew I wanted to be a part
of the change. … I wanted to be a
voice for my community to bridge
the gap between the communities
and the justice system.
I plan to focus my legal education
on civil rights and human rights law.
The support of this scholarship will
allow me to build a legal career
where I can become the voice of
those individuals who need to be
heard in our society.
HECTOR PAGAN,
CLASS OF 2024
Caguas, Puerto Rico
I moved to
Boston to continue pursuing my
education. I had a big dream, law
school being my end goal. However,
I had one obstacle to overcome:
mastering the English language.
I was not ready for law school
back then, so I decided to pursue
graduate studies in psychology and
behavior analysis and improve my
writing and communication skills
so I could be prepared to pursue
studies in the law. After completing
my two master’s degrees, I felt ready
to pursue my biggest dream and
decided to apply to law school.
When I visited Suffolk Law,
I felt that I was home. I felt that I
belonged there.
The scholarship has allowed me
to focus more on my studies.
In fiscal year 2020, Suffolk Law saw the largest number of Summa Society donors in 12 years. The Summa Society is composed of those
who contribute $1,000 or more annually.
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�GIVING BACK
ALL RISE: CELEBRATING
SUFFOLK LAW’S FEMALE LEADERS
T
he third annual celebration of Suffolk
Law’s female leaders—known as “All
Rise”—took place on November 18.
The event raised over $95,000 to benefit the
Catherine T. Judge Scholarship Fund and
the Suffolk Law Student Emergency Fund.
One part of the program featured a
panel presentation, “Rise Up, Speak Up
and Lift Every Voice,” which highlighted
individual and collective actions to advance
racial and gender equity and justice.
Moderated by Suffolk Law Professor Lolita
Darden JD’91, the panel included Tamela
Bailey JD’04, member of the Law School
Alumni Board of Directors and commercial
legal senior counsel, National Grid; Hon.
Stacey J. Fortes JD’90, First Justice of
Lowell District Court; and Nina
Mitchell Wells JD’76, former
New Jersey Secretary of State
and former director of the
Metropolitan
Washington
Airports Authority (MWAA).
Given the event’s theme,
“Rise Up, Speak Up and Lift
Every Voice,” the alumnae
panelists shared their thoughts
on the importance and
power of sisterhood,
building community,
“All Rise”
moderator
Suffolk Law
Professor Lolita
Darden JD’91
and personal empowerment, as well as
on the collective responsibility of every
legal professional to join the effort of
transforming legal institutions into places of
equity and inclusion for all.
The event also celebrated two
remarkable women. This year, the
Catherine T. Judge Teaching and Service
Award was posthumously presented to
Professor Emerita Victoria Dodd, who
died earlier this year. The Marian Archer
“Trailblazer” Award was presented to Judge
Marianne B. Bowler JD’76, HLLD’94.
Judge Bowler has served as a magistrate
judge, U.S. District Court, District of
Massachusetts, since 1990 and as chief
magistrate judge (2002 to 2005). She was
the first female president of the Suffolk
Law School Alumni Association Board
of Directors. In addition to her lengthy
judicial service, Bowler recently concluded
two terms as a member of the International
Judicial Relations Committee of the Judicial
Conference of the United States, traveling
to Bangladesh, Egypt, India, Kuwait, Nepal,
and the United Arab Emirates to teach
judges mediation techniques and to lecture
on intellectual property issues, money
laundering, and high-profile criminal cases
including terrorism.
The next All Rise event will be held March 8, 2021.
POSTHUMOUS HONORS
FOR PROFESSOR
VICTORIA DODD
Few are courageous. And even fewer are
courageous often, regularly saying what needs
to be said, even when it’s risky to do so. When
colleagues remember the life of Professor
Victoria J. Dodd, they invariably recall
moments when Dodd showed such courage.
“As one of very few tenured women, she
always put herself out there on important issues
so that we younger women never felt alone,”
wrote Professor Rosanna Cavallaro on hearing
of Professor Dodd’s passing. “That plus her
humor and fierce intelligence made her a largerthan-life figure whom I will miss.”
Dodd taught law for nearly 40 years at
Suffolk, teaching criminal law, constitutional
law, civil procedure, and federal courts and
advancing the interests and status of women
in the profession. As one of the pioneer
female law professors, she faced gender bias
head on, often with humor. She was honored
posthumously with the Catherine T. Judge
Teaching and Service Award at the All Rise
alumni event on November 18.
Among her other accomplishments,
Dodd served as a three-time chair of the
Education Law Section of the Association
of American Law Schools. And her book,
Practical Education Law for the Twenty-First
Century, has been widely used in the field,
both inside and outside the classroom.
CATIC FOUNDATION SUPPORTS ACCELERATOR-TO-PRACTICE PROGRAM
This past spring, the CATIC Foundation committed a generous
$55,000 to support Suffolk Law’s Accelerator-to-Practice Program.
The program prepares graduates to join or establish small law
practices that serve average-income clients.
“We appreciate the CATIC Foundation’s support, which
enables Suffolk Law to fulfill its historic and nationally recognized
commitment to preparing practice-ready lawyers,” said Suffolk
University Law School Dean Andrew Perlman.
The award-winning program consists of an innovative professional
development and skills curriculum. Students learn about law office
management, receive training in efficiency-enhancing law practice
technology, and intern at financially successful small firms and learn how
they operate. They also participate in a full-year capstone experience in
the Accelerator Practice, which combines training in fee-shifting cases
with an opportunity to manage the law firm
embedded within the Law School. CATIC’s
funding will support the ongoing work of the
Accelerator-to-Practice Program.
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�GIVING BACK
ALUMNI CONTRIBUTIONS
WITH PERSONAL MEANING
Ernst Guerrier with his family—son Myles, wife Marie,
and daughter Christa—at the 2019 Suffolk Law Clinical
Programs Reception.
By Kara Baskin
Photographs from left: Michael J. Clarke (2), John Gillooly
S
uffolk Law is fortunate to boast
legions of alumni devoted to
giving back. That giving is
especially resonant when generosity
dovetails with professional passions.
Consider Dean’s Cabinet member
Deborah Marson JD’78, executive
vice president, general counsel, and
secretary of Iron Mountain, a Bostonbased global leader for storage and
information management services.
Her $100,000 of funding supports a
clinical fellow for Suffolk Law’s Legal
Innovation and Technology (LIT) Lab.
“I’m very involved in the new
products that we offer, which
are dependent on technological
advancements. Supporting the LIT
Lab just seemed like a great synergy to
me between what I know and what I
work with—cutting-edge, novel, and
linked to the law,” she says.
Iron Mountain and the LIT Lab
both operate at the intersection of
technology and data science. Marson,
who was the longtime deputy general
counsel for The Gillette Company
before Iron Mountain, is delighted to
help support these civic efforts through
a legal lens.
“Suffolk gave me the gift of being a
lawyer, and I’ve reached a few milestones
in my career that I never expected when
I was a graduate back in 1978,” she says.
“I believe in giving back and trying to
make the road for students today a little
bit easier where I can.”
Her generosity currently supports
clinical fellow and adjunct professor
Quinten Steenhuis, who previously
practiced housing and eviction defense
law for Greater Boston Legal Services.
At the LIT Lab, his projects focus on
the intersection of access to justice
and technology, with an emphasis on
housing and evictions. During the
pandemic, his work is more important
than ever. (See p. 12 for more details.)
Or consider University Trustee
and Dean’s Cabinet member Mark
E. Sullivan JD’79, retired chief legal
officer at Bose Corporation—a
company whose audio innovations,
from noise-canceling headphones
to high-tech speakers, are often
mimicked. To protect the company’s
inventions, Sullivan’s practice focused
on intellectual property, and he
is devoted to supporting the next
generation of Suffolk graduates
interested in the nexis of IP and
business.
He recently committed $250,000,
much of which is intended to advance
the Law School’s work in IP law. “Each
decade brings its own wrinkle in terms
of the knowledge and experience you
need to succeed as a lawyer,” he says.
“For many new graduates, they’ll
need to operate comfortably in the
innovation economy, and I wanted to
help out in that subject area as it was
critical to my career.”
“These two remarkable Suffolk
Law graduates have achieved so
much in their careers,” said Dean
Andrew Perlman. “It is gratifying to
see them give back, and it is especially
meaningful to see them support the
kind of work that has been critical to
their own success.”
Alumni appreciate the chance
to share their professional passions
through funding, but equally significant
is an overarching appreciation for
Suffolk as an institution.
“Suffolk Law is a place of
intellectual curiosity, learning,” says
Marson. “It’s a place that makes a
difference in the lives and careers of its
graduates. What more could anybody
ask for?”
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ERNST GUERRIER
PAYS IT FORWARD
By Kara Baskin
Suffolk Trustee and Dean’s Cabinet member Ernst
Guerrier BS’91, JD’94 immigrated to Boston from
Haiti at age 7, the son of a cab driver and a hospital
worker. He learned the value of paying it forward at
a pivotal time in his life. The self-described inner-city
kid, who grew up in Mattapan, received a helping
hand to attend Suffolk as an undergrad and later as
a law student.
The opportunity came by way of Richard J.
Trifiro JD’57, HLLD’87, the late Boston lawyer and
philanthropist who was committed to city youth.
The Trifiro family has given nearly $1.6 million to
Suffolk and has made a profound impact on the lives
and careers of countless Suffolk students who needed
financial assistance.
“I asked him: ‘How do I pay you back? Do I have
to work for you for 10 years?’ And [Trifino] said, ‘You
pay it forward,’” recalls Guerrier.
Today, he runs his own law firm, Guerrier &
Associates. “My clients don’t have the opportunity to
hire a major Boston law firm; they just don’t have that
access,” he says.
Guerrier conceptualized and has championed the
Suffolk University Black Alumni Network (SUBAN).
Recently, he and his wife, Marie, pledged $100,000,
half of which will establish the SUBAN Scholarship
Fund—designed for students with an interest in AfricanAmerican studies and social justice. His efforts also led
to the creation of the Suffolk University Celebration
of Black Excellence event, which, this year, showcased
social equity champions.
Guerrier believes in developing a tradition of
hands-on involvement among alumni, and is leading by
example. “Giving back means everything to me. Without
Suffolk, I would not be here today,” Guerrier says. “My
teachers became my friends. My administrators became
my mentors. I’m hoping to preserve that opportunity for
students who will follow me.”
To join Ernst Guerrier in contributing to the
SUBAN Scholarship Fund, text “suban” to 71-777 or
visit: app.mobilecause.com/vf/SUBAN.
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COMMUNITY
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION
AT SUFFOLK LAW
A
gainst the backdrop of one of
the largest national civil rights
movements in generations, a
seemingly endless list of Black victims of
police brutality, the exposure of pandemicrelated health disparities, and a resurgence
of the white supremacist movement, Suffolk
Law is reckoning with systemic racism.
In a letter to Suffolk Law students on
June 19, Dean Andrew Perlman wrote the
following:
“Today is Juneteenth, a day when we
commemorate the end of slavery in the
United States. We can use this moment
to reflect on how far we still have to go to
remedy slavery’s horrific and enduring
legacy and to address the profound and deep
problem of racial injustice in our country. As
a law school, we have a special obligation to
pursue justice, to right wrongs when we see
them, and to make an impact, not only in the
broader community but in our own as well.
“Too often the burden of seeking
change falls on those who have been most
disadvantaged by the status quo. This must
change. We all have an obligation, especially
as future legal professionals, to address
injustices where we see them. This is our
shared obligation. I look forward to working
with all of you in the weeks and months
ahead to bring about real, meaningful
change, both in our broader communities
and within our own.”
A new steering committee
Giving top leaders at the school a key
role in recommending practical steps for the
institution in these areas has been a priority
for Dean Perlman. This past spring, he
launched a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
(DEI) Steering Committee chaired by three
academic deans and comprising the faculty
chairs of key standing committees.
These academic leaders will work with
the existing DEI Faculty Committee and
other standing faculty committees to develop
proposals for improvement in the areas of
curricular change, cultural competency of
faculty and students, admissions, recruitment
and retention efforts, scholarships, hiring,
and more. While many of the outcomes
will take more than one academic year
to implement, the steering committee
has already begun its work, and concrete
proposals will be put forward to the faculty
for approval and implementation as early as
spring 2021.
Continued on page 24
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Photographs by Michael J. Clarke
By Michael Fisch
�ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER
D I V E R S I T Y, E Q U I T Y, A N D I N C L U S I O N ( D E I ) AT S U F F O L K L AW
RAISING AWARENESS
Expanding our existing antiracism, implicit
bias, and LGBTQ+ inclusion orientation
trainings for new law students and the
entire Suffolk community.
11 CLINICS TO
MAKE AN IMPACT
Expanding access to justice through
our 11 nationally ranked in-house clinics
and a new Transactional Clinic to
support nonprofits and businesses that
are committed to creating economic
equity.
DIVERSITY FROM THE TOP
ASSISTANT DEAN
OF DIVERSITY, EQUITY,
AND INCLUSION
More than 1/3 of Suffolk Law’s 11 deans
are people of color and more than 60%
are women. Suffolk Law elected its
second Black female Student Bar
Association president in 2020.
Appointing a newly created Assistant
Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to
spearhead DEI initiatives throughout
the Law School.
SUPPORT FOR FIRSTGENERATION STUDENTS
CLASSES FROM DIVERSE
PERSPECTIVES
Supporting first-generation students
and students from underrepresented
backgrounds through our FirstGeneration Law Students
organization and networking
opportunities with first-generation
alumni.
Expanding our curriculum with new
courses that examine diversity and
inclusion in the legal profession and the
law’s relation to systemic injustice and
inequality; enhancing our existing areas of
focus in Diversity and Social Justice
and Civil Rights & Human Rights Law.
ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT
INSPIRING THE NEXT
GENERATION
Inspiring diverse and underrepresented
high schoolers in law student-coached
trial competitions in the MarshallBrennan Constitutional Law
Program.
AFFINITY STUDENT GROUPS
Celebrating a more inclusive
community with over a dozen affinity
groups that support students from diverse
and underrepresented backgrounds
through multiple programs: Diversity
Week, diversity receptions, anti-racism
panels, and an alumni speaker series.
The Suffolk University Black Alumni
Network (SUBAN) serves current and
future Black alumni through mentoring,
philanthropy, volunteerism, and
events. The SUBAN Scholarship
Fund supports Suffolk students with a
demonstrated interest in serving
under-represented communities.
DIVERSITY IN HIRING
Making the Law School faculty and
staff more diverse by changing our
hiring practices—minimizing the
potential influence of implicit biases and
maximizing our efforts to attract and
recruit diverse candidates.
PEER MENTORS
Growing our Diversity Peer Mentoring
Program by including more students
and new initiatives. Also offering
more safe social spaces, professional
development workshops, and academic
enrichment through the Student Bar
Association’s Diversity & Inclusion
Committee.
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HBCU & FIRST-GEN
SCHOLARSHIPS
Providing scholarships for students
from historically Black colleges &
universities (HBCUs), as well as for firstgeneration students from Boston-area
colleges.
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Assistant Dean of
Diversity, Equity,
and Inclusion
Cherina D. Wright
JD/MBA’17 has been
named the first assistant
dean of DEI, building
on her previous work
as director of student
engagement
and
inclusion. In this new
role, Wright will provide
strategic direction for the
Law School’s DEI efforts
and will work closely
with various institutional
stakeholders, including
students, faculty, staff,
and alumni. Starting this past summer, Wright has been leading
all of the deans in monthly town hall meetings with students and
faculty to address issues that are on the minds of student leaders
of color, with upcoming topics including Suffolk’s admissions and
scholarship processes.
A recent town hall featured the co-chairs of the faculty curriculum
committee. The co-chairs and deans addressed questions about the
Suffolk Law curriculum, including how courses are chosen, what is
taught in each course, and how faculty are encouraged to intentionally
address issues of systemic racism, such as redlining and for-profit prisons.
“When a student asks a faculty leader in a public forum,
‘Should a property law class address redlining?’ there’s a great
sense of immediacy and urgency to that question,” says Wright.
“It’s been a great experience for all sides—for the students to have
direct access to faculty leaders, to hear their opinions, and for the
faculty to hear directly from students. We’re having these hard
conversations as a community rather than in our siloes, and that’s
an important first step.”
A time for action
This summer’s protests compelled both the DEI Faculty
Committee and the Student Bar Association to create documents
laying out recommendations for change. The Steering Committee
will use these two key documents to help drive its work in coming
months.
“I want to make public, as I have several times,” Dean Perlman says,
“that studying proposals won’t be enough. The times demand action,
and that is my expectation. I’m committed to finding ways to implement
as many of the community recommendations as possible. Our school
can do better, and we will be a force for change.”
Building on previous work
Wright says that the national racial justice protest movement has
been important in gaining traction for much broader conversations
about race: “More people today are listening and open to talking
about difficult DEI issues, but people should know that the Law
School’s DEI Faculty Committee has been working hard for many
years. They’ve been helping colleagues improve classroom culture,
offering suggestions to better integrate DEI matters into law classes,
and training faculty on microaggressions and implicit bias.”
Wright adds that the Progress to Success: Diversity Peer
Mentorship Program has grown exponentially over the last few
years to provide a full calendar of programming, ranging from social
spaces for students to find community to professional development
workshops and academic enrichment.
Rising to a historic moment
When asked about the DEI work ahead for the Law School,
Professor Maurice R. Dyson, co-chair of the Faculty DEI
Committee, turned to the words of American artist William Merritt
Chace: “Diversity ... is not casual liberal tolerance of anything not
yourself. It is not polite accommodation. Instead, diversity is, in
action, the sometimes painful awareness that other people, other
races, other voices, other habits of mind have as much integrity of
being, as much claim on the world as you do.”
“As long as we can see ourselves in each other’s hopes and ambitions,”
Dyson says, “and respect each other’s equal right to occupy a life with
the same dignity that we want for ourselves, then change is possible.
I believe we can rise to meet this historic moment with the solemn,
sustained commitment it deserves and requires.”
A leading role in
the Student Bar
Association
Elected this year as
president of Suffolk Law’s
Student Bar Association
(SBA), Dayana Donisca
(at left), Class of 2021,
is the second Black
woman to serve in the
role. She has led a critical
conversation around DEI.
In honor of Juneteenth,
she spearheaded an SBA
virtual town hall, where
professors Renée M.
Landers and Karen M.
Blum JD’74 and adjunct
professor Judge Michael C. Bolden JD’78 presented on legal and social
issues connected with systemic racism. On October 22, Donisca was
honored as a racial equity champion by the Suffolk University Black
Alumni Network, which highlighted her advocacy work at Suffolk,
North Carolina’s Queens University of Charlotte, and the AmeriCorps
program in Baltimore.
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TRANSACTIONAL LAW MEETS
SOCIAL JUSTICE
By Michael Fisch
Photographs by Michael J. Clarke
W
hen you think of the term
“transactional law,” perhaps your
mind turns to corporate law—
someone in a suit drafting contracts, maybe
working on a corporate merger.
What you might not think of is a workerowned cooperative of immigrant women in
East Boston producing face masks and other
personal protective equipment (PPE).
“People don’t necessarily connect
transactional law with social justice,”
says Clinical Professor Carlos Teuscher,
who launched and directs Suffolk’s new
Transactional Clinic. “But transactional
law can be a transformative tool for our
community-based clients. We can help create
new economic structures that prioritize
community and equity.”
Toward that end, his students work on
legal formation, debt and equity financing,
general contract drafting and negotiation,
and commercial leases, among other work.
After working at two Big Law firms,
Linklaters and Dechert, Teuscher brings
experience in international finance deals and
mergers and acquisitions to a whole new set
of clients—one of those being Puntada, the
East Boston mask-making cooperative.
Teuscher previously directed Harvard
Law School’s Community Enterprise Project.
We caught up with him to find out more
about Suffolk’s new clinic.
Tell us about the work with Puntada.
Puntada’s worker-owners came together
during the COVID-19 pandemic to support
themselves and their communities. They
decided to form a worker-owned cooperative,
meaning that the workers, and not third-party
owners, fully own and control the business. The
workers produce and sell—or donate, in many
cases—face masks and other PPE to support
low-income immigrant communities in the
Greater Boston area. Their masks have made
their way to families in East Boston, Chelsea,
Chinatown, Lynn, and Dorchester, as well as to
other cities across the U.S.
Working with the cooperative incubator
Center for Cooperative Development and
Solidarity in East Boston, students in the Clinic
recently conducted a bilingual workshop with the
worker-owners to better understand their legal
needs. In addition to learning presentation and
other client-based skills, the Clinic students are
developing Puntada’s internal legal documents,
including a tailored limited liability corporation
operating agreement that will set out Puntada’s
governance and financial structure.
The Clinic is also working with
Community Land Trusts (CLTs). What’s
the basic idea there?
A CLT is often a nonprofit corporation that
is controlled by members of the community.
In many CLTs, the CLT owns land with the
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intent to hold the land in perpetuity for
affordable housing, among other uses.
In the case of affordable housing,
the CLT will often build a home on
its land and sell the building only—
not the land—to someone of low or
moderate income. The land is leased to
the building owner, often for 99 years.
This “ground lease” approach is
designed to ensure that the nonprofit
can hold onto the land—it won’t be
sold to developers. But homeowners
still gain equity through appreciation
of the part they do own—the building.
There’s another big benefit here.
As the land value goes up, the buyers
in a low-income community aren’t
saddled with that high land cost, just
the building cost, so homes are more
affordable.
There’s less displacement of lowincome people, a lot less foreclosure,
and
affordable
housing
for
generations. Also, because they have
the ability to vote for the CLT’s board
of directors, long-term residents have
more of a say on how the land in their
community is used.
Tell us about the students’ work
on CLTs.
One of our CLT clients this
semester is the Boston Neighborhood
Community Land Trust. BNCLT
provides affordable housing to many
families in Boston’s communities of
color that have been disproportionately
impacted by COVID-19.
One of our student projects for
BNCLT this semester is to develop a
form of ground lease so that the CLT
can move forward with donations of
land from two separate homeowners
in Dorchester. The lease contains
affordability and other restrictions
so that the land is controlled by the
community, while still allowing the
homeowner to build equity.
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DEAN
PERLMAN
HELPS LEAD
ACCESS-TOJUSTICE-EFFORT
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awyers from around the country came to the American Bar
Association (ABA) House of Delegates meeting in Austin,
Texas, in February 2020 with a controversial question at hand:
Should states be encouraged to consider innovations in the regulation
of legal services—alterations specifically designed to expand legal
services to more Americans?
“The train is leaving the station. The ABA needs to be on that
train,” Suffolk Law Dean Andrew Perlman told Bloomberg Law in
an interview before the landmark vote on ABA Resolution 115.
The metaphorical train is the increasing number of states that
are adopting innovations designed to address the access-to-justice
gap—the large numbers, 80% to 90% in many states, of low- and
middle-income Americans who face critical civil legal issues like
eviction without a lawyer.
Resolution 115, which passed overwhelmingly, encourages states
to try new ways to address the crisis. As one of the resolution’s
primary drafters, Perlman, inaugural chair of the ABA Center for
Innovation and the former vice chair of the ABA Commission on the
Future of Legal Services, played a key role in the effort.
He recently answered some questions about his national advocacy
effort.
What drove the need for the resolution?
We’re falling further and further behind in terms of addressing
the public’s civil legal needs. The problem is that traditional solutions
over the last several decades, including increased pro bono efforts by
lawyers, additional funding for legal aid, and civil Gideon [providing
a lawyer as of right to indigent clients in civil matters], have been
insufficient.
We need new ideas, and a number of states are trying them. The
resolution says: Look at those states, assess what they’re doing, and
consider trying some new approaches of your own.
Did the resolution recommend any specific innovations?
The resolution doesn’t specify what types of solutions states should
try, though states are experimenting with a lot of new approaches. For
example, some are implementing ways for litigants to resolve their
disputes entirely online; others are developing automated tools and
forms of assistance for pro se litigants; and still others are adopting
streamlined litigation processes.
Some states are also experimenting with new ways to regulate
the delivery of legal services, including changes to the unauthorized
practice of law, the creation of new categories of legal services
providers [the legal equivalent to registered nurse practitioners], and
the loosening of restrictions on lawyers’ abilities to partner and share
fees with other kinds of professionals. For example, Arizona and
Utah recently adopted major reforms in these areas, and other states
are considering doing the same.
The resolution does not take a position on these specific
innovations. Its intent is to encourage states to experiment with new
approaches. Once we assess the data and see what works and doesn’t
work, we’ll be in a better position to know which ideas are worth
trying more broadly and whether it makes sense to recommend any
changes to the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct and other
model policies. In other words, the resolution encourages states to
be the so-called “laboratories of democracy” when it comes to the
access-to-justice crisis.
Is the passage of the resolution important?
Yes, because it puts the ABA on record as encouraging states to
consider innovations, including regulatory innovations, in the delivery
of legal services at a time when many states have started to consider
and implement such changes. With the weight of the ABA behind the
idea, more states are likely to follow suit. And, most importantly, my
hope is that we will see fresh ideas about how we can best serve the
public’s unmet legal needs.
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By Michael Fisch
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SUFFOLK LAW LAUNCHES
INNOVATIVE HYBRID
ONLINE JD PROGRAM
By Michael Fisch
T
he Law School has launched a pioneering new
Hybrid Online JD Program (HJD), the first in
the country to offer full- and part-time students
a traditional in-person first-year classroom experience
followed by the option of taking all remaining classes
online.
We spoke to Professor Gabe Teninbaum JD’05, who will
oversee day-to-day operations of the program in his role as
the Law School’s assistant dean for innovation, strategic
initiatives, and distance education. Teninbaum brings a
deep background to the position. In 2017, the ABA Journal
called him “perhaps the most tech-savvy law professor in
the country,” and since 2015 he has led the Law School’s
Legal Innovation & Technology Concentration.
to attend law school at a flexible time. We’re now leveraging
technology to offer students the opportunity to attend most
of law school at a flexible location. We’re basically updating
Archer’s original vision for the 21st century.
Once students go remote, will they be able to do
moot courts, the Law Review, and other activities?
Absolutely. HJD students are full members of the
community. They’ll have access to all of it: extracurricular
activities and support services, including student groups,
law journals, bar prep classes, academic support, alumni
networking programs, and career services. Also, they’re
welcome to be physically on campus any time they want,
just like any other student. They’ll have the additional
option to take their classes, access services, and engage in
extracurriculars remotely.
Suffolk is taking a new approach with this program:
first year on campus, followed by as much remote
learning as a student wants in the following years.
Why structure the program this way?
By enrolling in the same first-year courses as everyone else,
HJD students will develop close connections with classmates
and faculty. They’ll get to experience those hallmarks of 1L
year, from getting cold-called in Contracts class to participating
in oral arguments in Legal Practice Skills. But then, as upperlevel students, they’ll have flexibility to live and work where they
want during the remainder of law school.
Many students have good reasons for needing to live
outside of the Boston area, whether being closer to family
or a job, or living in a less expensive region. These are
legitimate reasons that might otherwise prevent a person
from attending law school. We’re going to make it easier
for these people to succeed by requiring them to be on
campus for only one year.
In 1906, [Suffolk Law founder] Gleason Archer started
teaching small law classes in his home for working-class
people and immigrants who worked during the day and
attended law school at night. Archer found a way to help
people overcome obstacles by offering them the opportunity
Was the hybrid approach brought on by the
pandemic?
No. Many years before the pandemic, we started to see
a trend toward online work and collaboration in the legal
field. There’s no doubt that COVID-19 is accelerating
that trend, but we were ahead of this curve and have been
planning this program for some time.
These days, if you aren’t comfortable in a remote
environment, you’ll be at a disadvantage in the workplace.
Our HJD students will be at ease engaging in significant
work remotely and using the technologies needed to
do it. This will give them an advantage in a changing
marketplace.
How big is the program expected to be? And what
kind of student are you looking for?
We’ll have small cohorts of no more than 25 new HJD
students per year, and those students will have certain
qualities they share. They’ll be the innovators, the firstadopters. In this unprecedented time, that’s a good person
to be.
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n his early years as a prosecutor in Suffolk County, Michael V Glennon
.
JD’10 says he struggled with how to help juvenile offenders.
“We were developing their criminal records but not doing the work
needed to support them and keep them out of the system in the long term,”
says Glennon, chief of the Juvenile Unit at the Suffolk County District
Attorney’s Office. “Or we’d lean on a program we were familiar with rather
than calibrating to that particular youth’s needs. So the outcomes we were
getting for moderate- and high-risk youth were all wrong.”
Glennon joined forces with another Suffolk Law alum, University
Trustee Daniel F. Conley JD’83, who as Suffolk County’s district attorney
from 2002 until 2018 created reforms like the 2017 Juvenile Alternative
Resolution (JAR) Program. Glennon developed JAR and now oversees it as
part of the Juvenile Unit.
Their goal was to increase public safety, while at the same time reducing
youth involvement with the courts—and the lifelong barriers that ensue with
a criminal record. That meant creating plans for services and interventions
outside of the court system and appropriate to the specific offender.
Glennon is naturally bullish on the effort, calling it “one of the most
important things I’ll do in my career,” and now he has hard data behind him.
Early statistics from the Juvenile Justice and Policy Data Board in
Massachusetts, as well as a large body of national research, show that youths
who have taken part in diversion programs are less likely to reoffend than
those who are formally processed through the juvenile courts.
And according to the state’s Juvenile Justice Reform Coalition, each
dollar spent on diversion produces benefits of $10.60 to $25.60 for the
community.
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�Just one aspect of reform
Juvenile diversion is one of a number of
criminal justice reform measures that have
emerged locally and nationally in recent
years, many of them spearheaded by Suffolk
Law alumni.
Reform is, of course, an elastic and
amorphous term. But in the arena of court
reforms, Suffolk Law experts say, it includes
model initiatives like the expansion of both
juvenile and adult diversion programs;
specialty courts that focus on drug addiction,
homelessness, veterans’ issues, and mental
health; major changes in bail laws; wider
access to remote judicial hearings; greater
use of prosecutorial discretion; and reducing
jail populations, especially in the age of
COVID-19.
A vital aspect of the reform movement
is its tight focus on data and independent
validation, so that skeptics can see if new
approaches are objectively effective. One
way to get the data is to offer more juveniles
diversion programs. Nicole Siino JD’18, a
graduate of Suffolk’s Legal Innovation &
Technology Concentration, has developed a
tool that helps achieve that goal (see page 5).
While early results have been positive,
more data is needed to learn whether the
reforms championed by Suffolk-connected
experts will pay long-term dividends in
rehabilitation and public safety.
A Suffolk grad’s pivotal role
One Massachusetts legislator and Suffolk
Law graduate instrumental in passing the
state’s landmark criminal justice reform
legislation of 2018 is Rep. Claire D. Cronin
JD’85 of the 11th Plymouth District,
House chair of the Joint Committee on the
Judiciary, and the first woman to serve in that
role. She was a primary author of the bill and
oversaw the bipartisan conference committee
negotiations that got it to the governor’s desk.
The law affects people of all ages who
become ensnared in the legal system. Provisions
include upping the age when youths can enter
the court system from 7 to 12; removing
restrictions on diversion programs to keep
teenage first-offenders out of prison; allowing
some criminal records for 18 - to 21-year-olds
to be expunged; ending mandatory minimum
sentences for low-level drug crimes; and setting
up a medical-release program for terminally ill
and elderly inmates.
According to the Bureau of Justice
Statistics, 65% of inmates in American jails
have not been convicted of the offense they
are charged with. They are awaiting court
action but cannot afford what are often
onerous or punitive fees and bail amounts.
Those situations, research shows, lead to a
higher rate of future offenses.
A centerpiece of the Massachusetts
legislation is its bail reform measures, which
require that judges, in setting bail, take into
account a person’s financial resources and
allow fees and fines to be waived for financial
hardship. Judges must also justify in writing
instances in which bail is set so high that it
prevents someone’s release.
Cronin says she was especially gratified
that her efforts had strong bipartisan
support. “We’ve seen justice reform become
a bipartisan issue around the country,” she
says. “That’s because research and data show
these reforms reduce recidivism, increase
public safety, and save money.”
Improving prosecutorial
discretion
Christina E. Miller, who runs the Law
School’s Prosecutor Program and served as
the Chief of District Courts and Community
Prosecutions at the Suffolk County District
Attorney’s Office, has long focused on the
complex matter of prosecutorial discretion.
She spent years managing the hiring and
training of assistant district attorneys at a
time when efforts to have prosecutors treat
lower-level legal and criminal matters more
holistically took hold as a reform priority.
“Every day an ADA makes from 30 to 100
discretionary decisions,” she says. “There are
charging and sentencing recommendations,
financial penalties, bail amounts, and so on.”
For decades, some prosecutors focused on
using those decisions to drive guilty pleas.
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But a new generation of progressive DAs
in Massachusetts are rejecting that mindset
and embracing reforms.
“What I’ve seen that is really encouraging
is that options are growing,” Miller says.
“Things like pre- and post-trial arraignments,
diversions and alternative sentencing options,
and the assigning of cases to specialty courts
that are ‘pre-adjudication,’ so an individual
is held responsible and is granted support
without the need for a guilty finding.”
Miller is working on increasing such
options as co-chair of the Massachusetts
Trial Court’s Boston Community Justice
Task Force, a group charged with increasing
diversion, especially in the areas of mental
health and substance abuse.
A new pre-sentencing approach
for substance abusers
Rachelle Steinberg JD’00, MSCJ’03,
assistant deputy superintendent with the
Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office, says that
the justice system is starting to see substance
abuse as a problem that doesn’t lend itself to
simply leaving a person in jail. Public safety
outcomes for the community are better
and less expensive when people get needed
medical, mental health, and substanceabuse treatment and learn some life and
vocational skills, she says.
Steinberg oversees the Opioid and
Addiction Services Inside South Bay
program, or OASIS, which launched in
2018. The program focuses on intensive
substance-abuse treatment and dischargeplanning services for male pretrial offenders.
The men remanded to the unit, about 30 at
any given time, aren’t free to leave, but haven’t
been sentenced either, giving them a chance to
turn their lives around through comprehensive
substance-abuse counseling, mentorship and
support from peers in the program, and other
Sheriff’s Department offerings.
Most of the participants create
individualized reentry plans with OASIS
staff that are coordinated with local service
agencies and include detailed program and
treatment steps.
�When judges decide that such a plan
seems reasonable and in keeping with the
nature of the crime, offenders may be released
on probation or to a residential treatment
program, or both, with strict guidelines.
Correctional facilities like Suffolk
County’s are “managing a difficult challenge,
as we have become de facto mental health
and substance-abuse treatment facilities,” she
says. “Our goal is to have someone walk out
of our facilities, and the OASIS program,
more equipped than when they came in. To
do that, we offer evidence-based treatment
and services that are gender-specific and
trauma-informed.”
Charu Verma JD’11, a staff attorney at
the Committee for Public Counsel Services
(the public defender’s office) and co-chair of
the Massachusetts Bar Association Criminal
Justice Section Council, concurs with
Steinberg’s root-causes approach.
“I think today there’s more attention
being paid to the science of substance abuse
and mental health disorders, and how those
intersect with criminal behavior,” she says.
“The science leads you to spending more
money up front before people are caught up in
the justice system—more money for treatment
beds, transitional housing, social workers,
diversion programs, specialty courts.”
As enhanced data is collected about
the savings accrued by treating the
causes of criminal behavior as well as the
positive public safety outcomes of keeping
communities whole, she says, the state’s
budgeting priorities will start to change—and
that’s when criminal justice reform efforts
will really begin to take hold. “Now,” she
says, “when hearts and minds are in the right
places, we lack the resources.”
Incarceration numbers
Former DA Conley says Massachusetts
prosecutors are more likely to embrace
changes that would be politically anathema
in more prison-oriented states. Prisoner
numbers at the Suffolk County House of
Corrections, for example, fell from around
1,000 when he took office to 500 in 2018.
“I think we have always been more
advanced on justice reform,” he says, noting
a wealth of data showing that “over the years
our rates of incarceration have declined—
and, remarkably, crime was going down as
jail populations were going down.”
Anthony Benedetti JD’93, chief counsel
for the Committee for Public Counsel
Services, agrees that the state has made
progress, especially with juvenile justice,
probation practices, and bail reform.
However, he cautions that “the state’s
incarceration rates are still astronomical
compared to Europe.”
“All of us who work in the system,
including defenders, prosecutors, and
judges, need to take responsibility for
creating a fairer and more effective legal
system,” he says.
A judge takes the long view
Judge Serge Georges, Jr. JD’96, nominee
(at press time) for the Supreme Judicial Court
and long-time teacher at Suffolk Law, grew
up in Dorchester and ran the Municipal
Drug Court there from 2014 to 2018. In the
end, reliable financing for the specialty court
system and its affiliated diversion programs is
key to success, he says.
Georges has been praised by the
Massachusetts Bar Association and
Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, among others,
for showing extraordinary compassion to
low-level offenders—urging them to embrace
diversionary programs and assisting them
in staying off the courtroom to prison-cell
conveyor belt.
“An appropriately staffed drug court is
worth doing,” he says. “Otherwise it can
be a waste of time. You need a clinician,
a probation officer, the commitment of the
DA’s office, a defense attorney, and longterm treatment beds all in place to make
it work.”
Georges points to the drug courts,
a major catch-basin for people who are
headed for a life of crime. “It’s a shame
courts may be the only way a person can get
help,” he said.
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In the end, criminal justice reform is as
much about empathy and rehabilitation as it
is about data and funding.
Benedetti asks, “If we cannot end the
cradle-to-prison pipeline in Massachusetts,
what hope does the rest of the country have?”
One answer to that question may lie
within the pockets of the Massachusetts
justice system that are finding practical ways
to maintain public safety while giving some
offenders a shot at redemption.
“We’ve seen justice
reform become a
bipartisan issue
around the country.
That’s because
research and data
show these reforms
reduce recidivism,
increase public
safety, and save
money.”
- Rep. Claire D. Cronin JD’85
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Photography by Michael J. Clarke
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When Aisha inquired about an apartment in Boston
recently, the listing agent said he wasn’t sure when he
planned to show the unit, asked Aisha for her credit
score, and told her to text her number so he could call the
next day. The listing agent didn’t follow up, so Aisha tried
him again. The agent rushed her off the phone, saying,
“You gotta stop calling me.” She never heard from the
agent again.
But when another young woman, Meredith, called
about the same apartment, the agent immediately
offered her a tour, confirmed it by text, and didn’t ask
for her credit score.
Why the difference?
Aisha and Meredith are race-associated names
chosen quite purposefully by Suffolk Law’s Housing
Discrimination Testing Program (HDTP) as part of a study
in which undercover testers interacted with rental agents
or landlords of 50 randomly selected rental properties in
Greater Boston from August 2018 to July 2019.
This summer, the HDTP’s findings were compiled
in a study co-authored by the Analysis Group and
funded by The Boston Foundation.
Highlights from the findings
Overall, Black testers faced discrimination in 71%
of the tests, including issues like not being able to make
an appointment, not being offered the discounts or free
parking offered to white testers, and not being offered
an application. Agents showed Black testers about half
the number of apartments shown to white testers and
were far less likely to return Black testers’ calls—just
62% of the time versus 92% for white testers.
And for people using a Section 8 voucher, which
helps low-income families, the elderly, and people with
disabilities afford rental housing in the private market,
the chances of even touring an apartment were few and
far between.
Nearly 90% of testers who indicated they were
using a voucher faced discrimination, regardless
of their race. In a number of cases, the brokers told
the testers outright that the owner was not accepting
voucher participants.
Both state and federal law prohibit housing
discrimination based on race and source of income,
among other reasons, so the findings suggest both
pervasive discrimination and unlawful conduct. The
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HDTP’s rigorously designed testing program began in
2012 and has resulted in multiple enforcement actions
by state agencies.
City signs agreement with Suffolk
The most recent findings were so compelling that
they prompted immediate calls for change.
A few days after the study was released on July 1,
2020, industry publication Banker & Tradesman called on
the state’s Attorney General’s Office to convene a task
force to address the housing discrimination problem.
“No serious person can tell themselves that these
results were the product of shoddy study design,” the
publication wrote. “To make sure no other factor could
influence the broker’s actions, the listings in each test
were randomly chosen, testers did not know each other,
participated in only one test each, and, in each test, had
the same income, credit score, sex, disability, family size,
and gender identity.”
Boston City Councilor Matt O’Malley, who
referenced the study on NBC 10, was just one of several
councilors who took to local media this summer to
decry widespread housing discrimination in the city and
to announce a formal council hearing on the HDTP’s
findings.
At that hearing on October 13, Suffolk Law
Professor William Berman, director of the HDTP, laid
out the study’s conclusions. William Onuoha, director of
Boston’s Office of Fair Housing & Equity (OFHE), then
announced that the OFHE had signed an agreement
with Suffolk Law to fund a new discrimination testing
coordinator position, housed at Suffolk. The new hire
will be part of the HDTP and will run a comprehensive
undercover testing program across Boston.
A commitment to enforcement
Spurred by Suffolk’s data, Onuoha announced
that the OFHE will file agency-initiated enforcement
actions against agents and landlords found to be
discriminating. “This is particularly important, because
the responsibility of fighting housing discrimination
shouldn’t only fall on victims,” says Jamie Langowski,
assistant director of the HDTP.
“Imagine you’re rushing to find a place to live for
your family, addressing your work responsibilities, and
then you add on a layer of trying to convince a lawyer to
take on a housing discrimination case,” says Langowski.
“It’s hard for anyone in that set of circumstances to
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�know they are being discriminated against,
she adds.
Discipline of rental agents who
discriminate is rare, and the state legislature
should make it easier to suspend offending
brokers, Langowski argues. Toward that
end, the HDTP is regularly convening
fair housing stakeholders from nonprofits,
the government, and academia to push
for changes in enforcement, punishment,
broker training, and the legal processes for
acquiring fair housing.
With a strong commitment for legal
enforcement from the City, more instances
of housing discrimination will be challenged
and stopped, she says.
How does housing discrimination
testing work?
Seventy-one Suffolk Law students served
among 200 testers posing as interested
renters. Pairs of testers, equal except for the
characteristic they were testing for, started
the process by calling the advertisers of 50
randomly selected rentals in nine Greater
Boston cities and 11 Boston neighborhoods.
White testers were assigned names such
as Brad and Anne, and Black testers were
assigned names like Latonya and Jermaine.
The testers recorded their experiences in
meticulously structured reports.
For example, in one test, “Lakisha,” a
Black tester and a Suffolk Law student, met
with an agent to view an apartment. He did
not offer her a rental application and did not
mention any additional, unadvertised units.
However, when “Allison,” a white tester
and also a Suffolk Law student, met with
the same agent, he offered her a rental
application before she even entered the
apartment, and told her after the viewing
that he wanted to show her an additional
unit. He went on to explain “they don’t
advertise that apartment because then they
would have to respond to everyone who
inquires” and they were looking for “people
with quiet lifestyles who work, not CEOs
necessarily, but people with good jobs.”
He invited Allison to join “a select group”
that would tour the unadvertised unit the
following day.
A “hollow” promise
“The promise of the Section 8 program
is a hollow one if a voucher holder is turned
away from renting a property nine out of
10 times just because they are trying to use
a voucher—and this in a state where this
kind of discrimination is explicitly illegal.
A person can’t hope to use a voucher for
upward mobility under these conditions,”
Professor Berman says.
“Housing is the most basic of
necessities,” he adds. “Where you live
impacts your health, your access to
education, and economic opportunities.
The fact that such a high level of race
discrimination exists in our community is a
disgrace and acts as a barrier to opportunity
that must be removed.”
ADDRESSING THE
AFFORDABILITY CRISIS
A separate but related problem for those
who seek affordable housing is that there
simply isn’t an adequate supply, says Suffolk
Law Professor John Infranca, a housing and
land-use expert.
In Massachusetts, and across the country,
neighborhood activists in lower-income and
working-class communities and residents of
wealthy towns are both fighting against the
development of new and dense multi-unit
housing, says Infranca.
When it comes to these large apartment
complexes, residents of wealthy towns
often point to concerns about traffic and
contend that schools and town services will
be overburdened. While in some cases these
concerns may have merit, they also reflect
a longstanding tradition of NIMBYism
(not-in-my-backyard), Infranca says, and
sometimes personal prejudice. Some
people, he says, won’t admit that prejudice
against Black renters and voucher holders
is a key reason why they stand against
multi-story developments with affordable
housing. But, as the recent HDTP study
makes clear, racial prejudice remains alive
and well.
Meanwhile, anti-gentrification activists
in blue-collar towns argue that new housing
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complexes will increase housing prices, alter
neighborhood demographics, and displace
current residents.
Infranca set out to better understand
the fiery opposition in the Bay State, and
across the country, to proposed changes
in zoning laws, the substance of new laws
that have passed in certain states, and a
potential route forward. He is focusing his
scholarship on related issues.
In November 2019, he organized a
two-day national roundtable where leading
academics, policy makers, and advocates
from across the country discussed recent
housing and zoning reform efforts. Speakers
directly involved with reforms in California,
Oregon, and elsewhere discussed lessons
learned and potential roads forward in
Massachusetts and beyond.
Last spring, he learned he was among just
16 professors to receive one of the country’s
top legal academic honors for junior
faculty, an invitation to present his research
at the Stanford/Harvard/Yale Junior
Faculty Forum. His paper, “Differentiating
Exclusionary Tendencies,” is forthcoming in
the Florida Law Review.
Build it or not, they will come
The version of gentrification that
has solidified in popular culture, usually
including images of hipsters sipping lattés,
suggests certain truths, Infranca says, but his
research points to a different conclusion than
that of many anti-gentrification activists. He
contends that gentrification is largely caused
by demand—not new supply.
People who can’t afford to live in
Boston’s South End or Jamaica Plain, for
example, will move into less expensive
neighborhoods in Roxbury and Hyde Park
whether developers build new housing or
not, he argues. If no new housing stock
is available, that means more competition
for existing units, housing prices rise
even more rapidly, and there’s even more
displacement.
Infranca points to a study by Lance
Freeman, a Columbia University affordable
housing and urban planning expert,
which shows that people in gentrifying
�Suffolk Law leaders
in housing reform,
from left, Jamie
Langowski, assistant
director of the Housing
Discrimination Testing
Program (HDTP),
and William Berman,
Suffolk Law professor
and director of the
HDTP. Suffolk Law
Professor John
Infranca, a housing
and land-use expert.
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�neighborhoods don’t move out of their apartments more often than
people do in persistently poor neighborhoods.
Regardless of their neighborhood, low-income individuals tend
to move a lot, Infranca says. “What’s different is who moves in when
people move out, and in gentrifying neighborhoods it tends to be more
affluent, oftentimes white residents moving in. So, if all that is true,
new housing supply by itself is not going to lead to higher levels of
displacement.”
Instead, he argues, new housing supply should help keep
housing prices from skyrocketing.
If we fail to increase the pace of new development, we risk
moving in the direction of the San Francisco area, he warns, noting
the images many have seen on television. In Palo Alto, California,
in the heart of Silicon Valley, news crews document battered RVs
and scruffy cars lining the main road next to Stanford University,
makeshift living places for workers who can’t afford the area’s
hyper-expensive housing.
Greater Boston, facing its own affordable housing crisis, has
significant parallels with the San Francisco area, he says. Both have
limited new development—even as their technology, health, and
other hot job markets continue to attract affluent workers willing
and able to pay top dollar for rent or home ownership.
“That combination has resulted in massive housing price
increases and evictions. The status quo of too much demand and
too little new housing supply is not going to work, and we’ve seen it
play out. It’s clear we need to figure out some creative approaches.”
Looking to the future
In many cases, Infranca says, longstanding zoning laws effectively
limit the construction of new housing. Suburban towns, for instance,
with zoning that mandates single-family homes on sizable lots, make
it difficult, if not impossible, for new, denser housing to be built
that might increase affordability. That in turns limits opportunities
for new residents to move into those communities—and often
exacerbates existing discrimination against people of color.
In Oregon, a recent state law requires cities with more than
10,000 people to allow duplexes in areas zoned for single-family
homes, a concept called upzoning. In California, there’s a movement
to upzone across the state, Infranca says.
Such state upzoning measures—some of which prohibit
exclusively single-family zoning and others that would permit
denser, multi-family housing near transit hubs—are worth
considering, he argues, but controversial. Efforts along these lines
have found limited traction in Massachusetts.
Should low-income communities have greater say regarding
development?
In his paper, Infranca examines whether low-income
neighborhoods should have a greater degree of control over new
development than very affluent communities do.
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There are a few critical reasons to consider doing that, he argues,
including the historical injustices faced by these neighborhoods:
redlining, discrimination, and disinvestment. Additionally, lowincome communities generally have a high proportion of renters.
The time commitment and costs of finding a new affordable rental
is harder to bear for a lower-income person than for someone who
is higher income, he says.
Infranca also points to Suffolk’s recent rental housing
discrimination study, which uncovers additional obstacles faced by
voucher-holders and Black renters.
He concludes that treating certain neighborhoods differently
than others makes sense as a way to target a narrow subset of
gentrification concerns, including the claims of long-term residents
to a stake in their neighborhoods. Infranca also suggests coming
up with new ways to grant long-term residents of low-income
communities a financial interest in development.
One option, his paper argues, would grant property owners and
long-term tenants development rights they could sell to a nearby
property. This would permit the purchaser to build a higher-density
development, while giving residents a financial stake and some
degree of control over new development in their community.
An industry perspective
Dean’s Cabinet member Jeffrey R. Drago JD’04, a partner
at Drago & Toscano, a Boston zoning/permitting law firm that
represents developers seeking to build large and small residential
and commercial buildings, agrees with Infranca that higher-density
development is part of the solution.
“In many cases we go out to start community processes in a
neighborhood and folks will say it’s too dense or too high or not
enough parking. However, if you want to address affordability, you
need to allow for larger-scale development,” he says. “Then the
municipalities can ask the developers for more affordable units in
return. With a greater supply, the demand will also go down.”
HYM Investments LLC, founded by Boston developer Tom
O’Brien JD’93, is overseeing the redevelopment of East Boston’s
Suffolk Downs. The project increased the required 13% affordable
housing to 20%—the highest feasible amount, according to O’Brien.
“We have two options: we can build a development that includes
up to 20% of affordable housing or we cannot build the project
at all—it’s a pretty stark choice, unfortunately,” he says. “We need
a national initiative to go and build more housing and make that
housing affordable to more people.”
New affordable units are important, but equally important
is equity, says HDTP director William Berman. He has been
surprised by the vehemence of opposition to affordable housing in
Massachusetts, and the veiled and not so veiled suggestions of race
and class that go along with that: “That vehemence comes with
a significant cost to the community, in that economically we can’t
promote growth if we don’t have access to affordable housing.”
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�Walk in
My Shoes:
A Day in the Life of a Black Woman Attorney
Danielle Johnson’s essay is reprinted with the permission of the Boston Bar Journal, where it appeared on May 28, 2020. She is a staff
attorney at Greater Boston Legal Services, where her practice focuses on elder housing and disability benefits.
I
f you approach the steps of the Edward Brooke
Courthouse (named after the first African American
elected to the U.S. Senate post Reconstruction) around
8:45 a.m. on a Thursday morning—colloquially known as
“Eviction Thursday” in Boston—there is a seemingly endless
line of people, mostly in street clothes, waiting anxiously to
get through the security screening. I approach, dressed in a
suit and dress shoes with my hair neatly dreadlocked. I walk
quickly past the lines of waiting litigants with my bar card
and driver’s license in hand. I am a young African American
woman and I am an attorney. In court, I am both an anomaly
and a chameleon, depending on whom I encounter.
The Court: The Tale of Two Lines
The familiar discomfort starts outside the courthouse.
To get through the door of the courthouse to the Eastern
Housing Court sessions on the fifth floor, I must walk past
the long lines of fellow people of color waiting to submit
themselves to the security screening—which often includes an
electronic pat-down—before being allowed in the building. It
is my weekly routine to swallow the discomfort of the two
lines; one short line for predominantly white attorneys and
another longer line for the litigants, including my clients,
predominantly people of color. I present my bar card and
driver’s license, and after close inspection—notably which
are not scrutinized for my white colleagues, who flash their
cards and proceed before me—I am allowed to pass the first
test and enter the foyer of the marbled courthouse.
Inside, the courthouse is buzzing, and the clamor of
chatter and movements echo throughout the hallways. I
make my way up to the fifth floor for the call of the lists.
Exiting the elevator, the scene that awaits can overwhelm an
unsuspecting person, but it is business as usual for Eviction
Thursday. The two “Attorney of the Day” tables are set up
to provide quick legal advice, one for pro se landlords and the
other for pro se tenants. The area is so crammed with people
that one cannot see the Attorneys of the Day. This is not
surprising given that in 2019 alone, 39,600 households faced
eviction in Massachusetts. Of these, 92% of the tenants were
unrepresented; in contrast, more than 70% of landlords
were represented.
At the Attorney of the Day table for tenants, I flip
through the dockets and see the usual massive number of
new eviction cases—about 150 in total—and 55 motion
hearings on the two lists. The day will be long. I brace
myself for the ongoing series of tests that I will face, each of
which will demand that I prove who I am, making Eviction
Thursday an even more exhausting day.
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Photograph by Michael J. Clarke
By Danielle Johnson JD’16
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�The Client: “You’re My Lawyer?”
Finding my client among the sea of black and brown faces who
are anxiously searching for answers from anyone who might be
willing to listen is doable if I have previously met the tenant. Today
is not that day. Working in legal aid, where there is a mismatch
between high demand and limited resources, I often walk through
the hall shouting out names of clients I will meet for the first time
in court. When my first call does not yield a response, I call again.
Success! I formally introduce myself to the client and field the
expected question: “You’re the attorney I spoke with?” Surprise
mixed with suspicion registers on my client’s face. For my clients, it
is my youth that is concerning. I am used to this look of doubt as an
attorney who practices exclusively with elders; this is my second test
of the day. It is the unspoken challenge to my legitimacy raised by my
appearance. I deflect their anxiety with humor using stereotypical
images of attorneys common to their generation: “I must look
adolescent, not the Matlock or Perry Mason you were expecting?”
To get past the awkwardness, I direct my client’s attention to the goal
for the day and what to expect in the courtroom. But sometimes this
is not sufficient assurance. I confidently explain to my client that this
is “not my first rodeo,” and hope that I have gained their trust. I
leave them to their thoughts and move on to find opposing counsel.
The Bench and the Bar
Housing courts tend to have their usual players, so locating a
specific attorney is not often difficult. Again, today is not that day.
Like a chameleon, I pass unnoticed through the tenants crowding
the halls while waiting anxiously for the courtrooms to open, and
quickly scan each white individual in a suit. In the courtroom,
shades of brown dominate, speckled here and there by clusters of
ivory. I am not the only person of color, or the only woman, or the
only person of modest economic means. Even so, there is a clear
dichotomy: The majority of the tenants are minorities while the
majority of attorneys are white and male. Then there is me.
As the list is called, the attorneys jockey for seats in the jury box.
In that segregated space, protected against the huddled masses
packed into the courtroom, the color scheme flips; today, I am
the only grain of pepper in a sea of salt. I sigh, recalling the day
the court officer singled me out: “Hey, you can’t sit there. You a
lawyer?” Moving past colleagues to an empty seat, I speculate that
they are wondering: “Does she know this section is for attorneys?”
This is the daily reality of what it means to be an attorney of color
in Massachusetts, navigating unwritten tests to prove that I exist, I
am qualified, and that I belong.
Once the call of the lists begins, the doors to the standingroom-only courtrooms are shut. Any defendant not present in
the correct courtroom for the call will be defaulted. Most tenants
who answer are visibly anxious. Once referred to court mediation
on the third floor, some will go over agreements with a housing
specialist, but most will be diverted to sign, without the benefit of
a hearing or trial, the pre-drafted form agreement for judgment
offered by the landlord’s attorney. This is accomplished quickly
in the hallway, often with no understanding on the part of the
tenants of the document they have signed, including the waiver
of their right to request a stay, seek reconsideration, or pursue
an appeal. Instead, they blindly focus on the quickest option that
allows them to remain in their home and escape the stress of
being in court.
My client, who was previously pro se, had signed such an
agreement for judgment with the landlord. The slightest breach
of any of its conditions, including all incorporated lease terms, is
deemed material and could trigger an execution for possession—
and the agreement waived all stays of execution. But today,
there will be no execution for possession. Today, I have prevailed
in negotiating an amendment to the “sword of Damocles”
agreement, and substituted a sustainable repayment plan with
sufficient time to access third-party rental assistance through the
Residential Assistance for Families in Transition (RAFT) program
for the onerous agreement for judgment. I also connected the
elderly client to the court’s Tenancy Preservation Program (TPP).
I am the most pleased with my success in changing the basis for
the eviction from “fault” to “no-fault,” thereby protecting my
client from mandatory termination of their Section 8 housing
choice voucher.
I have passed today’s last test. I achieved a successful outcome.
I demonstrated my competence to my client and proved my
negotiation skills to an opposing counsel with whom I had not
worked in the past.
Legal Aid and the Massachusetts Bar
Back at my office at Greater Boston Legal Services, my
shoulders relax. Here, I am not burdened by expectations to
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Photograph: Courtesy of the Sarita and Claire Wright Lucas Foundation
“In court, I am both an
anomaly and a chameleon,
depending on whom I
encounter.”
�conform to the culture and hierarchy of
a Boston law firm. I am not oppressed
by inadvertent stereotyping nor
subject to daily microaggressions that
would stunt any lawyer’s professional
growth.
Notwithstanding,
my
dominant experience navigating my
chosen profession is one of alienation,
exclusion, and discomfort—the price
that I pay under the “invisible labor
clause” for being a Black woman legal
aid attorney in Massachusetts, serving
the poorest people in Boston who are
predominantly people of color, like me.
In my career, I have experienced
racism, gender discrimination, and
elitism. My experience is not unique.
Throughout the Commonwealth,
attorneys of color are called upon
to prove their qualifications daily, to
colleagues, clients, court personnel, and
even clerks and judges.
The 2019 demographic survey
conducted by the Supreme Judicial
Court, in collaboration with the
Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers,
revealed that out of 22,743 participating
attorneys, 20,043 (86%) identified as
white, and only 494 (2%) identified as
Black or African American, 519 (2%)
as Hispanic or Latinix, and 574 (2%) as
Asian. These numbers make clear what
my experience has proven—there is a
gross lack of minority representation in
the Massachusetts bar.
This is not a “woe is me” story. It
is a call to action for cultural diversity
in law firms and legal organizations
and, more importantly, for reflection
on and recognition of each of our
implicit biases. My day is over, but these
challenges will repeat tomorrow and
next week and every month thereafter
with a new list of scared, mostly poor,
minority tenants, assembled in lines to
enter a courthouse named for the first
African American attorney general
of Massachusetts, all in effort to get
“justice.” We should do better. We can
do better.
Honoring the memory of
a rising star in Criminal Justice
The Sarita and Claire Wright Lucas Foundation strives for diversity in the law
By Kara Baskin and Janet Parkinson
Elected prosecutors in the United
States are overwhelmingly white and
male, according to the 2019 Reflective
Democracy Campaign. Only 3% are men
of color; and while 24% are female, just
2% are women of color.
As a Black assistant district attorney
Sarita Wright Lucas JD’08 didn’t let those
demographics constrain her. At Suffolk
Law, Lucas interned at a corporate law
firm but found her calling as a prosecutor
after an internship in Boston Municipal
Court. She became deputy attorney
general with the Delaware Department of
Justice in Wilmington, Delaware, which is
ranked one of the most violent U.S. cities
on a per-capita basis. A rising star, Lucas
took more felony cases to trial in 2013 than
any other prosecutor. She was named head
of the Wilmington Trial Unit in 2014,
becoming one of the youngest attorneys
to head a criminal unit, trying homicides,
assaults, and other violent crimes.
Tragically, she died that same year of
pregnancy-related complications.
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In her memory, Lucas’ mother, Wanda
Geer, established the Sarita and Claire
Wright Lucas Foundation (SCWLF) in
2015 to support other Black women who
want to pursue careers as prosecutors—a
step toward making those demographics
more representative of the U.S. population.
“There are very few women
prosecutors—and very few women of color
who are prosecutors. Our goal is diversity
in the law to create a more equitable
criminal justice system,” Geer says.
To that end, the SCWLF grants
$5,000 scholarships to Black female law
students to cover the cost of preparing
for and taking the bar exam in four states.
“If you go into private practice, usually
the firm will cover many of these costs, if
not all of the cost—but people who want
to go into public service are on their own
financially,” Geer says.
A second $5,000 employment
incentive is available if recipients become
prosecutors. In its first five years, the
SCWLF has granted scholarships to 11
Black women.
Although the foundation has focused
on the Mid-Atlantic region, it will launch
a paid summer internship program in
2021 with the Suffolk and Middlesex
County District Attorneys’ Offices, with
preference given to Suffolk Law students.
“Sarita wanted to make a difference
in the justice system, as a woman of
color, for victims. She was really just so
passionate about it. We wanted to honor
that,” Geer says.
�DEAN’S CABINET
COMMITTED ALUMNI INVEST IN
THE FUTURE OF SUFFOLK LAW
DEAN’S CABINET
GROWS TO 45
MEMBERS
The Dean’s Cabinet now has 45 members, each of whom has
committed at least $50,000 to support the Law School’s programs
and students. Members meet with the dean twice per year to
receive updates about Suffolk Law, offer strategic advice about the
Law School’s direction, and engage with their accomplished fellow
members.
Two new members share what inspired them to join.
JACQUELINE L.
PERCZEK JD’94
“Someone once wrote that the price of leadership in
academia is to forge the path forward and await the judgment
of the future. Dean Perlman is not waiting for the future. The
future is now! An innovator and trailblazer, Dean Perlman’s
global vision has taken our law school to the next level of
excellence. Suffolk Law enjoys enviable national rankings
in various categories, we have a spectacular faculty, and our
school is defining the path forward. I made a gift to the school
because I want to advance the mission of our leadership and
honor the mission of our founders—to pass on a gift when we
can, and to help widen the path to education.”
CARL P. GROSS JD’71
“I had Sargent for Torts, Lemelman for Property and Taxation,
and Judge for Contracts. They inspired me, and I credit a lot of
my success to them and Suffolk Law as a whole. Dean Perlman
visited [my family]—I was impressed with him and his vision. His
assurances to me that the Suffolk mission would not be altered
convinced me to up my game financially.”
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�DEAN’S CABINET
SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL
DEAN’S CABINET MEMBERS
Patricia M. Annino
JD’81
Partner
Rimon Law
Boston, MA
Kevin M. Fitzgerald
JD’82
Partner
Nixon Peabody, LLP
Manchester, NH
Henry G. Kara BSBA’66,
JD’69
President
Kara Law Offices
Boston, MA
Robert T. Noonan JD’85
Regional Managing Partner
(ret.)
KMPG, LLP
Boston, MA
Joy L. Backer JD’15
Associate
Fish & Richardson PC
Boston, MA
Christine Newman
Garvey JD’72, Trustee
Global Head of Corporate
Real Estate and Services
(ret.)
Deutsche Bank AG
Santa Barbara, CA
George N. Keches
JD’75
Senior Partner
Keches Law Group, PC
Taunton, MA
Eric J. Parker JD’86
Partner
Parker Scheer, LLP
Lecturer
Suffolk University Law
School
Boston, MA
Todd L. Boudreau JD’98
Partner
Morrison & Foerster, LLP
Boston, MA
Alexander A. Bove, Jr.
JD’67
Partner
Bove & Langa P.C.
Boston, MA
Brian T. Brandt JD’96
Managing Director
SCS Financial LLC
Boston, MA
Claudine A. Cloutier
JD’95
Partner
Keches Law Group, PC
Taunton, MA
Photographs courtesy of Jacqueline L. Perczek, Carl P. Gross
Barry C. Cosgrove
JD’85
Chairman & CEO
Blackmore Partners, LLC
Laguna Beach, CA
Gerry D’Ambrosio JD’93
Partner
D’Ambrosio Brown, LLP
Boston, MA
Gerard S. DiFiore JD’84
Partner
Reed Smith, LLP
New York, NY
Jeffrey R. Drago JD’04
Founding Partner
Drago + Toscano, LLP
Boston, MA
Kenneth T. Gear
BSBA’89, JD’95
Chief Executive Officer
Leading Builders of
America, Inc.
Washington, DC
James A. Lack JD’96
President and Founder
HPL Enterprises
Sunny Isles Beach, FL
Warren G. Levenbaum
JD’72
Managing Partner
Levenbaum Trachtenberg,
PLC
Phoenix, AZ
Marc S. Geller JD’71
Managing Director
Sternhill Partners, Ltd.
Houston, TX
Konstantinos Ligris
JD’01, Trustee
Founder & Board Member
Ligris + Associates, PC
Co-Founder
Escrow Mint, LLC
Newton, MA
Joseph W. Glannon
Professor of Law
Suffolk University Law
School
Boston, MA
Carl P. Gross JD’71
Director & President
GB Ltd. Operating Co., Inc.
Freehold, NJ
Ernst Guerrier BS’91,
JD’94, Trustee
Principal
Guerrier & Associates, PC
Boston, MA
James F. Haley, Jr.
JD’75
Partner
Haley Guiliano, LLP
New York, NY
Bradley M. Henry JD’91
Partner
Meedhan, Boyle, Black &
Bogdanow, PC
Boston, MA
Deborah Marson JD’78
Executive Vice President,
General Counsel &
Secretary
Iron Mountain, Inc.
Boston, MA
Michael J. McCormack
JD’72
Partner
McCormack Suny, LLC
Boston, MA
Timothy M. McCrystal
JD’89
Partner
Ropes & Gray, LLP
Boston, MA
Brian E. McManus
JD’71
President
McManus Capital
Management
Fort Worth, TX
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Jacqueline L. Perczek
JD’94
Partner
Black, Srebnick, Kornspan
& Stumpf, PA
Miami, FL
Jamie A. Sasson JD’04
Managing Partner
The Ticktin Law Group, PA
Deerfield Beach, FL
Lewis A. Sassoon JD’69
Partner
Sassoon & Cymrot LLP
Boston, MA
Janis B. Schiff JD’83
Partner
Holland & Knight, LLP
Washington, DC
Alan B. Sharaf JD’87
Partner
Sharaf & Maloney, PC
Brookline, MA
Marie-Louise Skafte
JD’96
Founder
Skafte Global Law, PA
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Wayne E. Smith
BSBA’77, JD’82
Adjunct Professor
Suffolk University Law
School
Firm Director (ret.)
Deloitte Tax LLP
Boston, MA
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Mark E. Sullivan JD’97,
Trustee
Partner (ret.)
Nelson Mullins Riley &
Scarborough LLP
Boston, MA
Regina C. Sullivan
JD’88
Managing Partner
Gaman Real Estate Group
LLC
Wellesley, MA
Thomas M. Sullivan
JD’94
Founding Partner
Lando & Anastasi, LLP
Instructor
Suffolk University Sawyer
Business School
Boston, MA
James S. Trainor JD’00
Partner
Fenwick & West LLP
New York, NY
Kenneth J. Vacovec
JD’75
Senior Partner
Vacovec, Mayotte &
Singer, LLP
Newton, MA
Richard J. Walsh BA’58,
JD’60
Attorney (ret.)
Federal Trade Commission
Naples, FL
Stephen N. Wilchins
JD’82
Founding Partner
Wilchins, Cosentino,
Novins LLP
Wellesley, MA
Linda J. Wondrack
JD’95
EVP, Head of Compliance
for Advice Solutions
Fidelity Investments
Boston, MA
�RETIREMENTS
SUFFOLK LAW FACULTY
RETIREMENTS
STUDENT AWARD
NAMED FOR FORMER
DEAN ROBERT SMITH
Robert H. Smith served as the Law School’s dean for eight years
(1999–2007) and retired in May 2020 after serving an additional
13 years on the faculty. To honor his retirement and celebrate his
contributions to the Law School, and to the Clinical Programs in
particular, nearly $50,000 has been raised to establish the Robert H.
Smith Outstanding Clinic Student Award.
The award was created with an anonymous gift of $25,000 and
has grown with additional support from several Dean’s Cabinet
members who wanted to honor their relationship with Smith and
acknowledge his contributions to the Law School.
Smith was a clinical professor before coming to Suffolk Law, and
emphasized clinical education throughout his career. As dean, Smith
helped reimagine the Law School’s clinics and was instrumental in
developing them into cutting-edge experiential programs.
“I am happy to support Dean Smith,” said Trustee and Dean’s
Cabinet member Ernst Guerrier BS’91, JD’94, who contributed to the
creation of the award. “We [Suffolk Law] owe him a debt of gratitude.”
Professor Dwight Golann may be retiring,
but the positive impact he has had on the field
of alternative dispute resolution will endure. He
has been a pathfinder in teaching his subject
remotely—in a field that is so often dependent on
in-person instruction. His scholarship has been
informed by his own deep experience as both a
mediator and a former chief of the Trial Division
of the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office.
Dwight has been a wonderful colleague, generous
with his learning and assistance. Suffolk’s national
ranking in dispute resolution draws heavily on his
contribution.
“Bob Smith was the dean when I was hired 20 years ago, and I
learned so much from his leadership during his eight years as dean.
Among other accomplishments, he transformed our experiential
programs, especially our clinical and legal writing programs, and
helped to make them the national leaders that they are today,” said
Dean Andrew Perlman.
The first award will be given in the spring of 2021 to a student who
has engaged in outstanding work in a clinic and the corresponding
seminar. Consideration will be given to a student’s commitment to
public service, either in the form of public interest work or through
pro bono contributions, as well as to the student’s commitment to
mentoring future law students.
To make a contribution to the Robert H. Smith Outstanding Clinic
Student Award, visit suffolk.edu/law/alumni/give.
Over his 40-plus years of teaching and
service, Professor Stephen Hicks
is largely credited as the inspiring force
for global legal studies at Suffolk. He
developed LLM degrees in Boston and
abroad, an international internship
program, as well as several exchange
programs. Steve is a superb scholar,
a wonderful mentor to many, and an
influential teacher who has taught
thousands around the world.
—Assistant Dean Bridgett C. Sandusky
I recruited Professor Andy BeckermanRodau to join the Intellectual Property
Concentration as our patent specialist.
It was Andy’s idea that the High Tech
Concentration be retitled the Intellectual
Property Concentration. Andy has been
the driving force in making Suffolk Law
School the training grounds for more patent
attorneys in Greater Boston than all of the
other law schools in the area—combined.
Asking him to join the faculty and be the codirector of the IP Concentration was the best
decision I made as an administrator.
—Professor Michael Rustad
—Professor Lisle Baker
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PROFESSIONAL AND
PERSONAL MILESTONES
FROM SUFFOLK ALUMNI
1955
ARSEN TASHJIAN turned
100 on December 1. He
worked various jobs during the
day and attended law school
in the evening and spent his
entire legal career working at
Hanscom Air Force Base as a
patent attorney for the federal
government, a job that he
found on the bulletin board
at the Law School. During
World War II, he worked at
the Watertown Arsenal, testing
metals for heavy artillery.
He grew up in Everett and
currently resides in Chestnut
Hill. Married for 43 years, he
has three children and two
grandchildren.
Photographs from left: Michael J. Clarke, Class Notes submitted
1974
THE HON. DAVID
G. SACKS has retired
after nearly 34 years as a
probate and family court
judge in Springfield, MA.
He is former chair of the
Massachusetts Trial Court’s
Standing Committee on
Dispute Resolution and
remains a member and vice
chair. As a judge, he worked
with Suffolk interns from
the FYSI Program from the
program’s initial year. After
retirement, he was elected as
a Joe Biden delegate from the
First Congressional District.
David and his wife, Deborah
Leopold, senior manager
for developmental disability
services at BHN, Inc.,
continue to reside in Holyoke.
1984
1975
BRIAN M. HURLEY of Rackemann,
Sawyer & Brewster, was named to The Best
Lawyers in America 2021.
1978
DIANE C. TILLOTSON was named as
one of the 2019 “Lawyers of the Year” by
Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly. She was selected
for her work on McLean Hospital v. Town
of Lincoln, in which the Supreme Judicial
Court ruled in favor of her client, McLean
Hospital, clarifying the education use
exemption under the Dover Amendment.
1979
KEVIN F. BERRY joined Vaughan Baio
& Partners in Philadelphia as a partner. He
is a commercial litigator who has tried more
than 200 civil jury trials to verdict.
WILLIAM B. FLYNN is building a new
international financial services platform that
brings investors to privately owned midmarket investment opportunities in Europe
and North America.
1983
Boston Law
Collaborative
LLC has
added veteran
employment
lawyer and
mediator JODY
L. NEWMAN
to its practice.
She has more
than 35 years’
experience resolving workplace disputes and
investigating bias and sexual misconduct
cases in workplaces and college campuses.
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MADELINE S. BAIO
recently founded Vaughan Baio
& Partners in Philadelphia.
She litigates product liability,
premises liability, motor vehicle,
and employment-related matters, representing clients
in the product manufacturing, retailing, transportation,
pharmacy, grocery, and restaurant industries.
1986
ELLEN M. HARRINGTON, of Rackemann, Sawyer &
Brewster, was named to The Best Lawyers in America 2021.
1988
DENISE I. MURPHY was elected to serve as president
of the Massachusetts Bar Association and as co-chair
of the Supreme Judicial Court’s Standing Committee
on Lawyer Well-Being. She is co-chair of Rubin and
Rudman’s Labor and Employment Practice group.
Hermes Netburn shareholder ANTHONY J.
SBARRA, JR. was elected a national director for the
Defense Research Institute.
1989
JOHN C. LA LIBERTE at Sherin and Lodgen was
named to The Best Lawyers in America 2021.
1990
PATRICIA L.
DAVIDSON, a partner
in the Probate, Trust,
and Fiduciary Litigation
group and the Business
and General Litigation
group at Mirick O’Connell,
has been selected to the
2020 Massachusetts Super
Lawyers. She was also
selected to the 2019 Massachusetts Super Lawyers.
Her practice focuses on helping families resolve issues
involving wills, trusts, and real estate, as well as disputes
involving family and closely held businesses.
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NOTES
ISABELLA KIM has joined
Helsell Fetterman, a Seattlebased law firm serving businesses,
organizations, and individuals.
She will be leading its immigration
practice area and will be working
in the firm’s business transactions
practice group.
Leber IP Law, the boutique IP
firm founded by CELIA H.
LEBER, has been in business
for nine years and continues to
grow despite the pandemic.
MAURICE E. MUIR has been elected as justice of the New
York State Supreme Court, 11th Judicial District, for a 14-year
term. He previously served on the Civil Court of the City of
New York, where he presided over civil cases relating to no-fault
insurance, breach of contract, and personal injury claims.
JANE LEARY
LEVESQUE recently
celebrated 28 years as
a full-time teacher of
paralegal, business,
criminal justice, and fire
science at North Shore
Community College.
1991
MARIA R. DURANT
BA’8 8 has been named
the managing director of
Hogan Lovell’s Boston
office.
1992
JOHN D. COLUCCI
of McLane Middleton
has been named to the
2020 Massachusetts
Super Lawyers.
1995
1994
SOL J. COHEN has joined Kerstein, Coren & Lichtenstein
as a partner. With more than two decades of practice, Cohen
has tried over 40 cases to jury verdict and closed over 3,000 real
estate transactions. He notes, “I’ve had my own firm for more
than 20 years and am looking forward to practicing law in a
collegial environment with a team of experienced attorneys.”
PAUL W. CAREY, a partner in
the Creditors’ Rights, Bankruptcy,
and Reorganization group at
Mirick O’Connell, has been
selected to the 2020 Massachusetts
Super Lawyers. He was also
named to the 2019 Massachusetts
Super Lawyers. He concentrates
his practice on creditors’ rights,
bankruptcy, and business
reorganization matters.
McCarter & English, LLP has elected MIA A. FRABOTTA to
its equity ranks.
ROBERT B. GIBBONS,
a partner in the Litigation
group at Mirick O’Connell,
has been selected to the
2020 Massachusetts Super
Lawyers. He was also named
to the 2019 Massachusetts
Super Lawyers. He
concentrates his practice in
commercial litigation, where
he handles a broad range of
business matters involving
commercial contracts,
banking, construction,
commercial landlord-tenant
disputes, complex collections,
and fiduciary fraud.
CHRISTINE
E. DEVINE,
a partner and
the chair of
the Creditors‘
Rights,
Bankruptcy,
and
Reorganization
group at Mirick
O’Connell,
has been selected to the 2020
Massachusetts Super Lawyers.
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NOTES
Morgan, Brown & Joy attorney
GREGORY A. MANOUSOS
was named to the Best Lawyers
in America for Litigation—Labor
and Employment.
JENNIFER L. PARENT at
McLane Middleton was named
to the 2020 New England Super
Lawyers for Business Litigation.
1996
JASON S. DELMONICO has
joined global law firm Greenberg
Traurig LLP as a shareholder
in the corporate practice in the
firm’s Boston office. He has
over 20 years of experience
representing major financial
institutions and other commercial
lenders.
TERRI L. PASTORI,
managing partner of Pastori |
Krans, is delighted to announce
Pastori | Krans’ inclusion in
Business NH Magazine’s 2020 list
of top women-led businesses for
the second year in a row, one of
only three New Hampshire law
firms recognized.
Shareholder DAMON M.
SELIGSON has joined Sheehan
Phinney’s Business Litigation
group, where his practice focuses
on commercial litigation and real
estate matters. He also focuses
on assisting clients in medical
malpractice and personal injury
matters.
KEVIN J. WILLIS has been
promoted to counsel at Ropes &
Gray. He is a probate and trust
counsel in the firm’s private client
group. He has advised clients
for nearly 25 years, creating
sophisticated estate plans, settling
estates and trusts, and advising
fiduciaries concerning their
responsibilities. He also advises
beneficiaries of their rights in the
trust and estate settlement process,
and works with both fiduciaries
and beneficiaries in connection
with fiduciary litigation matters.
2004
HEATHER M. GAMACHE
has been named presidentelect of the Women’s Bar
Association for 2020–2021.
As a director in Rackemann,
Sawyer & Brewster’s
Litigation group, Gamache
has a broad focus on real
estate and commercial
litigation matters.
MATTHEW RAY JD/MBA
joins Murtha Cullina LLP’s
Business and Finance
Department.
2005
MICHELE BEAUCHINE
COLLINS was elected to a
three-year term on the board
of directors for the Society of
Financial Service Professionals.
She is an advanced sales
director with MassMutual
Financial Group in Boston,
president of FSP’s Boston
chapter, and an active member
of the Boston Bar Association,
where she participates in the
M. Ellen Carpenter Financial
Literacy Program. She resides
with her husband, Patrick, and
daughter in Nahant, MA.
2000
DAVID C. HARDY manages
the Hardy Law Firm PA in
Tampa, FL. Last fall, his article
“Simon a Slave v. State of
Florida” was the cover feature
of the Florida Bar Journal. He and
his wife, Carolyn, are the proud
parents of an 8-year-old girl and
a 6-year-old boy.
2003
JILL M. RYNKOWSKI
DOYLE has launched Bennett
Doyle LLP in Washington, DC,
specializing in estate and trust
administration, family law, and
litigation.
DAVID L. FINE, a partner
and chair of the Construction
Law group at Mirick
O’Connell, has been selected to
the 2020 Massachusetts Super
Lawyers. He was also named
to the 2019 Massachusetts
Super Lawyers. Fine represents
and counsels clients in the
construction industry, including
commercial, institutional,
and residential owners and
developers, general contractors,
construction managers,
specialty subcontractors,
suppliers, and manufacturers.
ELIZABETH LEVINE,
a director at Goulston &
Storrs, has been named an
“Employment Law Trailblazer”
by The National Law Journal
for her visionary work
helping companies across the
country assess and reform
their corporate culture. This
is Levine’s second trailblazer
award, after being named a
“New England Trailblazer” by
The American Lawyer in 2019.
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JUDITH L. STONEHULSLANDER has been
elected partner at Lathrop
Gage, where she focuses her
practice on patent preparation,
prosecution, and client
counseling in all areas of
biotechnology. She holds a
PhD in molecular genetics
and microbiology and, prior
to obtaining her law degree,
worked as a technical specialist
and patent agent.
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NOTES
JENNIFER L. JUNKIN has joined Am Law 100 firm
Polsinelli’s Seattle office as an associate in the firm’s
national Intellectual Property Department.
2006
MICHELLE-KIM (LEE) COHEN
has been promoted to deputy general
counsel at Dassault Systèmes, where
she is responsible for employment law
and compliance matters.
JACLYN S. O’LEARY has been elected an individual
clients partner in the Boston office of Day Pitney LLP.
Her practice focuses in the areas of estate planning
and estate and trust administration.
2007
JACK S. GEARAN of global law
firm Greenberg Traurig LLP has
been elected to the board of trustees
of City on a Hill Charter Public
Schools. The nonprofit is dedicated
to graduating responsible, democratic
citizens who are prepared for college
and to advancing community, culture,
and commerce.
HEIDI A. SEELY served as speaker at the Boston Bar
Association’s webinar, “Trusts & Estates End of Year
Review 2020.” An associate in Rackemann, Sawyer &
Brewster’s trusts and estates practice, Seely represents
families and individuals in estate planning, estate
administration, tax planning, trust administration, and
other trusts and estate needs. She is co-chair of the BBA’s
Public Policy Committee and Practice Fundamentals
Committee of the Trusts & Estates Section.
STEPHANIE S. MCGRAW has
been named partner at Shook, Hardy
& Bacon. She focuses her practice on
complex product liability, commercial,
and business litigation.
2010
2008
MATTHEW R. FISHER, a partner
at Mirick O’Connell and chair of
the firm’s Health Law group and
a member of the firm’s Business
group, has been selected to the 2020
Massachusetts Super Lawyers. He was
also named to the 2019 Massachusetts
Super Lawyers. Fisher helps guide
clients through the regulatory maze
that challenges all participants in the
healthcare industry.
2009
DAVID I. BRODY of Sherin and
Lodgen was named to The Best Lawyers
in America 2021.
RYAN P AVERY of Mirageas &
.
Avery LLC was selected as a “Rising
Star” by the 2019 Massachusetts
Super Lawyers.
ALLISON AHERN FILLO has
joined the Boston law firm of Davis
Malm, advising businesses and
individuals seeking U.S. immigration
and naturalization benefits. She
counsels clients on immigration
issues regarding employment and
compliance, as well as immigration
concerns arising in corporate
transactions and obtaining all
categories of non-immigrant visas
and lawful permanent residence in
the U.S.
2011
ANDREW A. KINGMAN was named to Massachusetts
Lawyers Weekly’s “Up and Coming Lawyers.” He is a
senior managing attorney in DLA Piper’s intellectual
property and technology practice. The publication
highlighted Kingman’s work as general counsel to the
State Privacy and Security Coalition, whose members
include 30 of the largest technology, media, telecom,
retail, and online security companies in the world, and
identified him as “a key player in the debate over state
privacy legislation.”
ANDREW M. MACDONALD was elevated to
partner at Fox Rothschild LLP. He advises businesses
on a diverse array of labor and employment law
issues, including union organizing campaigns and
National Labor Relations Board proceedings,
collective bargaining, and labor arbitration, as well
as employment discrimination and wage-and-hour
litigation. He is based in the firm’s Philadelphia office.
ELIZABETH RAHN GALLUCCI
has been named a partner at Ropes
& Gray.
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BRADFORD N.
VEZINA has been
elected as a director of
McLane Middleton.
He focuses on estate
plans for individuals
and families across the
economic spectrum.
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2012
CHRISTOPHER J. ABBOTT was promoted to counsel at Weil,
Gotshal & Manges LLP, where he is a member of Weil’s global antitrust
and competition practice in the Washington, DC office. He represents
clients in civil and criminal antitrust investigations and litigation, and in
obtaining antitrust approval for mergers and acquisitions.
JAMIE G. LEBERER has created a new partnership, Leberer &
Palladino PLLC, that will practice matrimonial and family law in the
Buffalo, NY region.
JACLYN L. MCNEELY has joined Boston labor and employment
law firm Morgan, Brown & Joy as an associate. McNeely counsels
and represents employers in all aspects of labor and employment
law, including workplace discrimination, leave laws, wage and hour
disputes, collective bargaining and grievance arbitration, unfair labor
practices, and related litigation.
2014
BRIAN M. CASACELI, an associate in the Labor & Employment group
at Mirick O’Connell, was named one of the Worcester Business Journal’s “40
Under Forty” for 2020.
MATTHEW R. O’CONNOR joined Pierce Atwood LLP as an
associate. His work involves commercial litigation, ERISA matters, and
assisting an active receivership practice. He lives in Providence, RI, with
his wife, Johanna, and their 1-year-old son, Theo.
On February 23, 2020, DARIUS
PAKROOH married Aris
deOliveira on the 7th-floor
balcony of Suffolk Law School.
“Choosing [to be married
at] Suffolk Law School was a
reminder of how far we’ve come
together. During my law school
library study marathons, Aris
would routinely come visit to cheer
me on and bring healthy food,”
Darius reminisces. The newlyweds
now spend their days operating
Pakrooh Law in Boston.
2017
MELISSA M. MARQUEZ BA’14 joins Knox Ricksen LLP, a civil
litigation firm specializing in complex health care fraud cases, as an
associate.
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IN MEMORIAM
REMEMBERING KENNEDY FAMILY
ADVISOR GERARD DOHERTY
The passing of alumnus and former Trustee Gerard “Gerry”
Doherty marks the end of an era in Massachusetts politics.
Doherty, who graduated from Suffolk Law in 1960 while
serving in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, was
deeply embedded in the civic life of the Commonwealth and
worked on the historic presidential campaigns of all three
Kennedy brothers. His 2017 memoir, They Were My Friends–Jack,
Bob and Ted: My Life In and Out of Politics, details those relationships.
“Gerry Doherty was someone larger than life who actually
made those around him better,” said Robert J. Allison, a Suffolk
University history professor.
Doherty brought political savvy and legislative knowledge to
his roles, but Allison said what made him truly indispensable was
his character, integrity, and ability to bring people together.
“You can find people who can crunch numbers and can look
at polling data, but understanding how to connect with people
is the most important thing. It’s a character trait that he had
and could use to great effect, and that’s one of the reasons the
Kennedys and others relied on him,” said Allison.
Doherty served on the Suffolk University Board of Trustees
from 1996 to 2014. He received the Law School Alumni
Association’s Edward Bray Legacy Award in 2018 and the
Alumni Service Award in 2005.
“Gerry was not only a civic leader—he was a philanthropic
leader as well. For decades, he made a profound impact on the
lives and careers of countless Suffolk Law students,” said Dean
Andrew Perlman.
Doherty was responsible for nearly one-half million dollars
in scholarship support, including one of the school’s public
service scholarships. Many of the students benefiting from
his philanthropy are from working-class towns, including
Charlestown, where he was a lifelong resident.
“We admire his lifetime of tenacity and his insistence that
individuals must make a difference in their communities,”
Perlman said. “When America’s leaders needed counsel, he
stepped up to help. And when Suffolk Law School and its students
needed him, he answered the call.”
Doherty is survived by his wife, Judge Regina Quinlan
Doherty, who received her Suffolk Law degree in 1973 and an
honorary Doctor of Laws in 2005.
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SUFFOLK
LAW
ALUMNI MAGAZINE
THE
$1M GIFT
Suffolk Law changed Barry C.
Cosgrove’s life; now he’s giving back
“ON SHIFTING SAND”
Four legal experts weigh in on the
immigration crisis
WINTER 2020
GREEN
DIVIDE
EMBRACING THE CHALLENGES OF
A BUDDING CANNABIS INDUSTRY
�TABLE OF
CONTENTS
LAW
ALUMNI MAGAZINE
$1M
GIFT
Suffolk Law changed
Barry C. Cosgrove’s life;
now he’s giving back
“ON
SHIFTING
SAND”
Four legal experts
weigh in on the
immigration crisis
THE
GREEN
DIVIDE
EMBRACING THE CHALLENGES OF
A BUDDING CANNABIS INDUSTRY
WINTER 2020
ON THE COVER:
Laury Lucien
JD’15
12
$1M DONATION TO SUFFOLK
HONORS AN INFLUENTIAL
GRANDMOTHER
30
“I AM STANDING
ON SHIFTING SAND”
Reflecting on the challenges of
immigration law
34
THE CANNABIS CONUNDRUM
Graduates inspired by the emerging
industry push on despite challenges
DEPARTMENTS
SUFFOLK
FEATURES
Ingrid and Barry C. Cosgrove
JD’85 generously donated
$1 million to Suffolk Law.
Read their story on page 12.
02
A MESSAGE FROM
DEAN ANDREW
PERLMAN
Impressive
employment
outcomes; 21stcentury skills; news
from the national
rankings; and more
04
LAW BRIEFS
News and notes
from the headlines
and hallways
11
SUFFOLK LAW LOOKS
TO THE FUTURE
A breakdown
of recent
achievements in
innovation
14
Next Generation
SPOT ON:
EASING ACCESS
TO LEGAL INFO
Improving the civil
legal system
15
Next Generation
WHEN CULTURAL
SURVIVAL IS AT STAKE
Clinic student
takes case to UN in
Geneva
16
Impactful Alumni
JOSH KOSKOFF
TAKES ON THE AR-15
It’s an uphill battle,
he says, but worth
the fight
�SUFFOLK
LAW
DEAN
ANDREW PERLMAN
B. Stephanie
Siegmann JD’97.
Read her story on
page 20.
22
28
HOOP DREAMS
COME TRUE FOR
DAVID DUQUETTE
Team counsel for
NBA’s Charlotte
Hornets shares how he
got there
SUFFOLK LAW FACULTY
WEIGH IN ON WORKPLACE
BULLYING LEGISLATION,
POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY,
AND A TOOL FOR MINDFUL
LAWYERING
YOU WANT TO GIVE,
BUT YOU’RE NOT
SURE HOW OR WHEN
Prof. Philip C. Kaplan
on a little known tool:
the CRUT
19
Impactful Alumni
THE CONNECTOR:
CARMEN ARCE-BOWEN
One graduate’s
quest to build a more
inclusive Boston
20
Impactful Alumni
B. STEPHANIE SIEGMANN
IS TENACIOUS AGAINST
TERRORISM
The first female chief of
the National Security Unit
of the Massachusetts
U.S. Attorney’s Office
opens up
21
Thought Leaders
WHY MASSACHUSETTS
SHOULD PASS THE
FACIAL RECOGNITION
MORATORIUM ACT
GREG GATLIN
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
MICHAEL
18
Impactful Alumni
EXECUTIVE EDITOR
Thought Leaders
24
Thought Leaders
TOUGH GIG: DOES
TRADEMARK LAW
NEED A MAKEOVER?
Associate Dean Leah
Chan Grinvald on
rethinking
trademark law for the
“gig economy”
25
Giving Back
MARIE-LOUISE SKAFTE
TRAVELS TO NEW
SUCCESSES
Alumna credits former
dean with academic
opportunity
26
Giving Back
SUFFOLK LEADER
HELPING LAW STUDENTS
NAVIGATE THE
INNOVATION ECONOMY
Trustee Mark Sullivan
gifts $250,000 for IP
effort
28
Giving Back
A RECORD-BREAKING
REUNION
Class of 1969 pays it
forward at 50-year mark
Giving Back
29
Giving Back
KEVIN FITZGERALD
ON BEING AN
“UNFASHIONABLE
SUCCESS”
29
Giving Back
DEAN’S GROUP LAUNCHES
FOR RECENT GRADS
Larry Nussbaum gives
back by joining the
Dean’s Associates
37
CLASS NOTES
Professional and
personal milestones
from Suffolk alumni
42
DEAN’S CABINET
Committed alumni
invest in the future of
Suffolk Law
44
ALUMNI EVENTS
Capturing memorable
moments from school
gatherings
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
FISCH
KATY IBSEN
DESIGN
JENNI LEISTE
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS
SHANNON DOOLING
JON GOREY
SETH JONES
BILL MARCUS
STEPHANIE SCHOROW
MICHAEL CARPENTER
KATHY CHAPMAN
MICHAEL J. CLARKE
ADAM DETOUR
BEN GEBO
JOHN GILLOOLY
KENT SMITH
BRYCE VICKMARK
MARK WILSON
CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS
COPY EDITOR
JANET PARKINSON
Suffolk Law Alumni Magazine is published
once a year by Suffolk University Law
School. The magazine is printed by Lane
Press in Burlington, VT. We welcome readers’
comments. Contact us at 617-573-5751,
mfisch@suffolk.edu, or at Editor, Suffolk Law
Alumni Magazine, 73 Tremont St., Ste. 1308,
Boston, MA 02108-4977. c 2020 by Suffolk
University. All publication rights reserved.
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ALUMNI MAGAZINE
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�A MESSAGE FROM
Photograph: Michael J. Clarke
DEAN
ANDREW
PERLMAN
F
02
SUFFOLK LAW
ALUMNI MAGAZINE
Winter 2020
or more than a century, Suffolk
Law has prepared its graduates
for professional success. This
issue of the Suffolk Law Alumni
Magazine tells just a few of their
stories and highlights some of the ways that
the Law School continues to prepare students
for success today.
What you will discover from these stories
and from conversations with current students
is that Suffolk Law remains committed to
its rich tradition of practice-oriented legal
education. That focus is making a difference,
and I’m delighted to update you on some
notable accomplishments:
Increased applications. The quality of a
Suffolk Law education and the achievements
of our alumni are major attractions for
aspiring lawyers. Applications have increased
in four of the last five years, and the two most
recent entering classes had the strongest
academic credentials in eight years.
A national leader in skills training.
When students arrive, they find skills
training that is unmatched in the nation.
Suffolk Law has long been known as a place
that trains outstanding lawyers, and the rest
of the country is taking notice. We are the
only law school in the nation that, for four
years in a row, has had four top-20 ranked
skills programs in U.S. News & World Report
(clinics, dispute resolution, legal writing, and
trial advocacy).
Positioning for the 21st century.
We also are a leader in teaching the new
knowledge and skills that lawyers need in
the 21st century. Suffolk Law is ranked No.
1 for legal tech, and our work in this area is
receiving international recognition. (p. 11)
Near-record employment outcomes.
Our students are leveraging their legal
education to find impressive professional
opportunities. Last year’s graduates had the
second-strongest employment outcomes in
the last 30 years. (p. 5)
Bar passage on the rise. The Law
School’s first-time bar pass rate on the July
2019 Massachusetts bar exam improved
to 70.5%, up from 64.5% last year. The 6
percentage point increase is the largest jump
we have seen in 14 years, reflecting numerous
recent bar-related initiatives. Moreover, our
ABA ultimate bar pass rate within two years
of graduation is 84%.
Alumni giving back. Alumni appreciate
how much their Suffolk Law education has
contributed to their success, and they are giving
back. This fall, we received a landmark $1
million commitment from alumnus Barry C.
Cosgrove JD’85 and his wife, Ingrid Cosgrove,
to establish the Graciela Rojas-Trabal Term
Scholarship. (p. 12) We have seen a dramatic
increase in the size of our Dean’s Cabinet,
which now has 40 members, each of whom has
committed at least $50,000 in philanthropic
support. (p. 42) We saw a 29% increase in
money raised over the prior year and a 20%
increase in the number of Summa donors, who
give $1,000 or more. And the Class of 1969
added nearly $500,000 to their already recordbreaking class scholarship fund in honor of
their 50th reunion. (p. 28)
I hope you share my pride in the progress
we are making at Suffolk Law. Together we
are advancing our longstanding mission of
offering students an impactful legal education
that has a transformative impact on their lives
and careers.
�THE NUMBERS ARE CLEAR
1 13
ONLY
#
ONE
Suffolk Law was
ranked number
one in the nation
for legal tech.
(National Jurist)
Suffolk Law is the only
school with four top20 ranked legal skills
specialties—clinics, legal
writing, trial advocacy, and
dispute resolution—for four
consecutive years. (U.S.
News & World Report)
OF
Suffolk Law is one of only three
schools ranked in the top 20
in all four legal skills specialty
areas in the 2020 edition of
U.S. News & World Report.
ONLY 10
BEST
GRAD
SCHOOLS
LAW
LAW
ONLY 10 HAVE MORE TOP-20
SPECIALTY PROGRAMS THAN
SUFFOLK LAW. ( U.S. NEWS &
WORLD REPORT )
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2020
LEGAL
WRITING
TRIAL
ADVOCACY
DISPUTE
RESOLUTION
2020
2020
2020
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15
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CLINICAL
TRAINING
19
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�LAW
BRIEFS
NEWS
AND NOTES
FROM THE
HEADLINES
AND
HALLWAYS
ALUMNA
CONFIRMED FOR
SEAT ON U.S.
DISTRICT COURT
QUICK FACT
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Winter 2020
30% OF RECENT
BAY STATE JUDICIAL
NOMINEES WERE
SUFFOLK ALUMNI
Gov. Baker’s “crown jewel”
Thirty percent of the judges nominated in 2017 and 2018 by Massachusetts
Governor Charlie Baker are Suffolk Law alumni. He nominated 89 judges
during those two years; 28 graduated from the Law School. In remarks made
at Suffolk University, Baker said, “As somebody who appreciates and believes
in the difference that public service can make, I find Suffolk University to be
one of the true crown jewels in the Commonwealth’s constellation of higher
education institutions.”
From left: Shutterstock, Courtesy of Isabel Stern
Federal courthouse in
Providence, Rhode Island
Mary S. McElroy JD’92, Rhode Island’s top
public defender, was confirmed to the Rhode Island
U.S. District Court by the United States Senate on
September 11, 2019.
McElroy has the unusual distinction of having
been nominated by both President Donald
Trump and President Barack Obama for the
position. Both nominations had stalled, however,
languishing in what the Boston Globe called “the
morass of Beltway gridlock.”
Before her confirmation, McElroy served as
public defender for the State of Rhode Island from
2012 to 2019. She previously spent six years as
federal defender for the districts of Massachusetts,
New Hampshire, and Rhode Island and served
as an assistant public defender with the Rhode
Island Public Defender’s Office for 12 years. Before
stepping into that role, she worked for Tate & Elias
LLC as an associate, after a clerkship for Justice
Donald Shea on the Rhode Island Supreme Court.
McElroy joins Chief Judge William E. Smith,
Judge John J. McConnell, Jr., and Magistrate Judges
Lincoln Almond and Patricia Sullivan in the U.S.
District Court for the District of Rhode Island.
�Last year’s graduates had the secondbest employment outcomes in 30
years. Why? From individualized
career coaching sessions to large-scale
recruitment programs in both the
public and private sectors, Suffolk
Law’s innovative professional and
career development program prepares
students and graduates to enter a rapidly
evolving legal job market.
TOP AREAS
OF EMPLOYMENT
33
% 15%
%
12%
in firms of 101+
5
IN FIRMS OF 2-100
21%
in business
LAW BRIEFS
SUFFOLK
GRADS FIND
SUCCESS IN
JOB MARKET
IN
CLERKSHIPS
in government
& public interest
COMING FULL CIRCLE
LAW STUDENTS HELP HIGH SCHOOLER WIN NATIONAL MOOT COURT COMPETITION
Sam DeLong JD/LLM’19,
Isabel Stern, and 3L Sam Faisal
You might think that most high school
students’ eyes would glaze over when asked
to read and discuss the pages of a 1969
Supreme Court case, but that’s not how it
turned out, says Suffolk Law 3L Sam Faisal.
As he helped 20 teens untie the knotty issues
in Tinker v. Des Moines, a case that decided
whether a group of public high school
students could be suspended for wearing
anti-Vietnam War armbands, his students
were energized and impassioned.
Faisal’s presence in a high school
classroom teaching constitutional law and
his work as a moot court mentor bring him
full circle. In 2011, when he was a junior in
high school, Suffolk Law students serving
in the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional
Literacy Project taught con law in his own
classroom at public magnet school Another
Course to College in Hyde Park.
Last academic year, Faisal and Sam
DeLong JD/LLM’19 traveled twice a week
to Cambridge Rindge & Latin, a public high
school in Cambridge, to serve as teachers,
coaches, and mentors in the same program.
They and other Suffolk Law students fanned
out to Boston-area public high schools to
teach the concepts of search and seizure and
free expression.
As a mentee and competitor in the
Marshall-Brennan Moot Court Competition
in 2011, Faisal realized that the law was
important, so much more important than
he had imagined, with rulings that seemed
to touch on every aspect of human conflict.
“In high school, my thinking was that
I wanted to be a police officer. My parents
wanted me to be a doctor or an engineer,”
he said. “But the Marshall-Brennan
training made me ask myself: ‘What could
I accomplish as a lawyer? What could I
accomplish using the structure of the law?’”
Through the spring of 2019, DeLong
and Faisal prepared Rindge & Latin
students, including Isabel Stern, for the
program’s high-profile capstone, a moot
court competition for teen litigators
across the country. During the National
Competition in Washington, D.C., Stern
had the opportunity to appear and argue
before federal judges in the final round. She
was honored as the best oral advocate.
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�LAW BRIEFS
GET
KONNECTED!
HONORS
BOSTON’S BEST,
INCLUDING
SUFFOLK LAW
ALUMNI
On April 30, Get Konnected!, in
partnership with Mintz, celebrated Greater
Boston’s 50 Most Influential Attorneys of
Color. The Get Konnected! website describes
the award winners as “some of the best legal
minds in Greater Boston … making their
mark in the legal profession, while serving as
role models for the next generation.”
The following Suffolk Law alumni were
honored:
Sheriece Perry
DEAN TOUTS LEGAL
TECHNOLOGY
PROGRAM ON
CAPITOL HILL
Damian Wilmot
Stephen Hall
GOVERNMENT
Sheriece Perry JD’08, Acting CoDirector, Department of Support Services,
Massachusetts Trial Courts Office of Court
Management
Macey Russell
Damian Wilmot JD’00, Senior Vice
President, Chief Risk and Compliance Officer,
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Jasmine Jean-Louis
LAW FIRM
Stephen Hall JD’10, Senior Counsel,
Holland & Knight
PIONEER
Macey Russell JD’83, Trustee; Partner,
Choate; former Chair of the Judicial
Nominating Commission; Advisory Board
Member, Institute for Inclusion in the Legal
Profession
Keerthi Sugumaran
RISING STARS
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Jasmine Jean-Louis JD’15, Attorney,
Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office
Keerthi Sugumaran JD’11, Associate,
Jackson Lewis PC; President, South Asian Bar
Association of Greater Boston
Elke Trilla-Bamani JD’12, Associate,
Morgan Lewis
Cherina Wright JD/MBA’17, Director of
Student Engagement and Inclusion, Suffolk
Law
Elke Trilla-Bamani
Cherina Wright
Dean Andrew Perlman spoke to Congressional
staffers on the role law schools can play in curbing a
growing crisis in access to legal services among low- and
middle-income families. The May 21 briefing included
remarks by Congressman Joe Kennedy III, recipient of
an honorary JD from Suffolk in 2019.
“Law schools need to teach future lawyers how to
develop innovative and more cost-effective approaches
to delivering legal services,” said Dean Perlman.
Suffolk Law’s top-ranked program in legal technology
has been leading the nation in this area with cuttingedge courses, a legal design lab, and online training, he
told staffers. He also referenced the school’s Acceleratorto-Practice program, which trains students in legal
technology and sound business practices, making it
possible to serve moderate-income clients in ways that
are financially sustainable.
The panel was spearheaded by the American
Academy of Arts & Sciences and the U.S. House of
Representatives’ Access to Civil Legal Services Caucus.
From left: Courtesy of Get Konnected (8), Shutterstock, Michael J. Clarke (2)
IN-HOUSE COUNSEL
�LAW BRIEFS
LEARNING THE
ART OF SUPERVISION
INNOCENCE
CLINIC
OFFERS NEW
OPPORTUNITY
Suffolk Law’s Innocence Clinic, now in its third
year of operation, teams up with the New England
Innocence Project (NEIP) and the Committee
for Public Counsel Services (CPCS) to review
claims of innocence on behalf of incarcerated
individuals. The cases are an outstanding vehicle
for students to delve deeply into legal, evidentiary,
and ethical issues associated with criminal cases.
This past year, for example, students uncovered
evidence that suggests a man serving time for
armed robbery had been framed by his ex-wife—
and it was evidence the jury never saw. As a
result of the students’ work, their client may have
grounds for a new trial.
Students involved in the
Innocence Clinic discuss
cases with Clinical Adjunct
Professor Shira Diner.
Shai Myers CAS’20 and
Julianne Jeha BA’16, JD’19
Law school clinics teach law students the invaluable skills associated with client
representation, but few provide students with the opportunity to learn the skills of
delegation and supervision. Now, some of Suffolk Law’s clinics do just that.
Appearing in Chelsea District Court, Julianne Jeha BA’16, JD’19 successfully sought
a restraining order on behalf of a client in Suffolk’s Family Advocacy Clinic (FAC). The
complex domestic abuse and custody matter was the first case Jeha had presented before
a judge—but she wasn’t alone. Thanks to a pioneering partnership with Suffolk’s College
of Arts & Sciences, students in FAC have the opportunity to team up with undergraduate
students who serve as paralegals.
In this restraining order case, Jeha had the help of Suffolk undergrad Shai Myers
(Class of 2020)—and Myers’ help was invaluable. For example, Myers created a detailed
timeline of the client’s many Department of Children & Families records, police reports,
and court orders. Beyond that, Myers was another set of eyes and ears who provided
valuable input.
Suffolk Law’s clinics have been ranked among the nation’s best for more than a
decade, and a primary reason for their success is their focus on innovative pedagogy. The
partnership with Suffolk’s College of Arts & Sciences now offers Suffolk Law students
the opportunity to delegate tasks and supervise the undergrads in a professional setting.
The undergraduates organize documents for hearings, take notes at client preparation
meetings, attend court hearings, file pleadings, conduct non-legal research, and act as
sounding boards for law students during practice presentations.
Associate Dean for Experiential Learning Kim McLaurin says the cooperative
effort helps student attorneys find the right balance between supervision and
micromanagement. Delegation is a skill that has to be learned, she says. “When I was an
attorney who hired people, those who struggled were the ones who couldn’t work well
with the paralegals and other support staff.”
Clients appreciate having a full, supportive team working on their cases, she adds. “It’s
a win for everyone.”
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�LAW BRIEFS
Suffolk Law School
ACCELERATED JD
PROGRAM ENABLES
DEGREES IN LESS TIME
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Suffolk Law got its start in 1906
as an evening law school that offered
students the flexibility they needed to
get a legal education while continuing
to work. Student needs continue to
evolve, and the Law School’s new
Accelerated JD program seeks to
address one of those needs: finishing
law school faster.
Accelerated JD students graduate
more quickly than traditional JD
students—two years instead of three
for the full-time program or two and
a half to three years instead of four for
the part-time evening program. The
Accelerated JD caters to those who
have already spent some years in a
professional setting before returning to
study law, such as students who have a
PhD and are working as patent agents.
The requirements are the same as
for the traditional JD program—same
number of credits, same tuition, same
required courses. Students finish faster
by taking classes the summer before
the 1L year and by taking classes in
subsequent summers.
Admission into the Accelerated
JD program is competitive, and
students must have even stronger
academic credentials than the typical
first-year law student. The Law
School launched the program in
2018, and the first class of students
will earn their degrees in 2020.
Suffolk Law was the first law
school in Massachusetts to launch an
accelerated JD program, and one of
only 21 nationwide at the time.
“Suffolk Law was founded on
the idea that aspiring lawyers should
have some flexibility in how they
obtain a legal education,” Associate
Dean of Admission Matthew Gavin
said. “In 1906, that meant offering
classes at night so law students could
work during the day. In 2020, that
means letting law students earn their
degree faster, so they can rejoin the
workforce sooner.”
Dr. Sonia Guterman JD’00 was cited by the Nobel
Committee for Chemistry when it announced two winners of
the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Her co-invented patent in
the area of protein engineering helped lay the groundwork for
later innovations by George P. Smith and Gregory P. Winter,
who won for their work in “the phage display of peptides and
antibodies.” Guterman was cited in a Nobel Committee paper
laying out the history of advances in the laureates’ field of
research.
Guterman, originally a biochemist, and her then-associate
Robert C. Ladner created and licensed a library of mutated
proteins, which enabled researchers to create more effective
medicines. Work in this area of chemistry began in the
1940s, said Dr. Guterman, who in 1971 received her PhD in
microbiology from MIT after studying under Nobel laureate
Salvadore E. Luria, an Italian-born bacteriologist.
After earning her PhD, Guterman served as vice president
for research at biopharmaceutical firm Protein Engineering
Corp., which later became the Dyax Corporation. She
returned to school in 1996, receiving her JD in 2000 while
working full-time. She was named partner and chair of the
Patent Group at Lawson & Weitzen LLP, and she now serves
as principal at intellectual property law firm Armis.
“I love Suffolk Law, and Suffolk Law made me into a
lawyer,” she said. “The satisfaction of being a lawyer is different
from being in science, and also wonderful—thrilling, actually.
“Suffolk Law was collegial from the first day. We were all
in it together. I remember that September in 1996, professors
showed us the library—how to do legal research. We were
given the tools and taught how to use them. When I studied
science for my PhD, it was like being thrown into a pond
without knowing how to swim.”
From left: Michael J. Clarke, Adobe Stock, student submitted
NOBEL COMMITTEE
LAUDS ALUMNA’S
PATENT WORK
�LAW BRIEFS
Suffolk Law students in
Connemara, County Galway
SPAIN, IRELAND
PROGRAMS GIVE
STUDENTS A
GLOBAL VIEW
REAL MADRID
Approximately 25 law students will head to Suffolk
University’s Madrid campus during spring break to learn
about Spanish law and its relationship to the European
Union, among other topics. The campus, founded in 1995,
sits just four miles from Madrid’s city center.
The Madrid visit is part of a new course that starts in
Boston with classes on the Spanish and EU legal systems.
Field trips will include visits with European Union officials
at the EU’s Madrid offices.
GALWAY DAYS
In May, students in the Suffolk Law summer course at the National
University of Ireland (NUI) Galway wrestled with some complex legal
questions. An example: whether the EU’s bylaws will allow it to maintain its
pollution emissions requirements post-Brexit and despite some EU countries’
reliance on coal.
Professor Sara Dillon, director of international programs at the Law
School, and Suffolk Law alumnus Lawrence “Larry” Donnelly JD’99, an
Irish American attorney and director of NUI Galway’s clinical program, have
been instrumental in organizing the summer program and helping Suffolk’s
students land valuable internships at major Irish nonprofits and government
organizations. The course included a visit to the Dublin headquarters of
Twitter to meet with the company’s chief legal officer for Europe, the Middle
East, and Asia, who discussed legal issues facing the company arising from
bots and hacking.
“The work of lawyers is increasingly focusing on transnational issues—digital
privacy rights and climate change are good examples,” says Dillon. “We’re
asking our Galway and Madrid program students to delve into matters that
cross borders, cultures, legal systems. It’s complex, sophisticated, and important
work—and for many students, it can also be life changing.”
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�Former NFL star Nick Buoniconti JD’68, HLLD’93
died July 30, 2019, leaving behind a notable legacy.
Among other contributions, he had an impact on research
into paralysis and chronic traumatic encephalopathy
(CTE) that is impossible to measure.
After attending the University of Notre Dame,
Buoniconti was selected by the Boston Patriots in the
13th round of the AFL draft in 1962. He was inducted
into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2001 after a
remarkable football career that included winning two
Super Bowls with the Miami Dolphins and covering the
sport as a commentator for 23 years.
While Buoniconti was still playing for the Boston
Patriots, he managed to make time to attend Suffolk
Law. He earned his JD in 1968, was a member of the bar
in Florida and Massachusetts, and received an honorary
doctor of laws in 1993.
After Buoniconti’s son, Marc, suffered a paralyzing
injury while playing football at The Citadel, the two
resolved to increase paralysis research, creating the Miami
Project to Cure Paralysis and the Buoniconti Fund to Cure
Paralysis, which have raised over $450 million. In 2017,
Buoniconti announced an especially personal pledge:
donating his brain and spinal cord to CTE research,
citing the damage his own body had endured as a result of
repeated head collisions in football.
Truly a champion in so many ways, Buoniconti said of
his donation: “I don’t do this for myself … I do it for the
thousands of others who will follow me.”
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Suffolk President
John Fenton;
Nick Buoniconti
JD’68, HLLD’93;
and his wife,
Teresa Marie
Salamano,
at the 1968
commencement
STUDENTS ARGUE BEFORE
U.S. SUPREME COURT JUSTICE
In a national securities law competition judged by U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Samuel Alito and other federal court judges, Suffolk Law students won the
award for best brief and finished second overall among 30 schools. The Kaufman
Competition was held in March at Fordham University.
“It was quite the radical transformation to get me to a place where I could take
hardball questions from circuit court judges and Justice Alito,” says 3L Dylan
Woods. In his first oral argument practice with Professor Joseph Franco, a former
attorney in the office of the General Counsel of the Securities and Exchange
Commission, Woods made some classic mistakes: “I came up with a fully typed,
several page speech, which I read robotically line by line, swaying, gripping the
podium. Professor Franco, week after week, got me to look him in the eye and make
my argument.”
The National Trial Team was also victorious last spring, winning the regional
championships of the National Trial Competition in Portland, Maine. Jake Hasson
JD’19 walked away with the Best Advocate award.
The Suffolk Law team won the Duberstein Bankruptcy National Moot Court
regional championship as well. Armand Santaniello JD’19 received the outstanding
oralist award.
YOU MIGHT CALL IT A DYNASTY
The Law School’s trial teams have won the regionals of the National Trial
Competition or the American Association for Justice’s Student Trial Advocacy
Competition 29 times in the last 34 years.
Our Trial Advocacy Program placed 15th in the country in U.S. News & World
Report’s 2020 rankings guide, its fourth year in a row in the top 20.
From left: Suffolk Law archives, Michael Carpenter
LAW BRIEFS
REMEMBERING
NICK BUONICONTI:
SUFFOLK GRAD
AND NFL LEGEND
�SUFFOLK LAW
LOOKS TO
THE FUTURE
A BREAKDOWN OF RECENT
ACHIEVEMENTS IN INNOVATION
LEGAL
TECHNOLOGY
LEGAL INNOVATION LEADER
National Jurist/preLaw named Suffolk the best
school in the U.S. for legal tech.
GOING
MOBILE
The ABA’s Center
for Innovation
NextGen Fellow
and LIT Fellow
Nicole Siino JD’18
created a mobile
tool for judges
and lawyers to
help juveniles
avoid jail time.
Brian Kuhn JD’07
is partner, co-founder,
and global leader of
Watson Legal, IBM’s
artificial intelligence
legal platform.
–preLaw Magazine
The Legal Innovation & Technology (LIT) Lab is
Suffolk’s consultancy and R&D shop, working
with attorneys, courts, and legal aid agencies to
offer legal tech and data science solutions.
NEXT-GENERATION JOBS
Legal Innovation and Technology Concentration
graduates have landed jobs that did not exist 10
years ago: legal innovation advisor, legal solutions
architect, legal project manager, and NextGen Fellow.
INNOVACTION
AWARD
WINNER
ALUMNI
SPOTLIGHT
“SUFFOLK IS ONE OF THE MOST INNOVATIVE
FORCES IN LEGAL EDUCATION”
SUFFOLK
LAW R&D
We’re preparing students for 21st-century
legal employment through a range of cuttingedge curricular initiatives. The nerve center
is our Institute on Legal Innovation and
Technology (LIT).
BLOOMBERG
COVERAGE:
“RETRAINING
LEGAL
INDUSTRY”
In 2018, Suffolk Law
launched its online
Legal Innovation
& Technology
Certificate program
taught by legal
industry leaders.
The program has
drawn students
from five different
continents.
Bloomberg covered
the launch.
The LIT Lab
was named
a 2019
InnovAction
Award Winner
by the College
of Law Practice
Management
in recognition
of the Lab’s
cutting-edge
public service,
data science,
and artificial
intelligence
projects.
GLOBAL
GAMECHANGER
The LIT Lab’s crowdsourcing tool Learned
Hands, co-developed with Stanford’s Legal
Design Lab, was one of 30 World Justice
Challenge finalists—a shortlist of the world’s
most innovative access-to-justice projects.
PEW GRANT
FOR AI
PROJECT
The LIT Lab recently received a
grant—its second—from the Pew
Charitable Trusts. The funding will
help create an algorithm that can
spot legal issues in the language
a layperson uses when searching
online for legal information.
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�The Cosgroves look over the tree they
planted in honor of Graciela Rojas-Trabal,
near the lakeside home in Wareham where
she was a summer guest.
$1M Donation
to Suffolk honors an influential grandmother
This column,
by Thomas
Farragher,
appeared in the
Boston Globe
on September 5,
2019.
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Her treasure was not kept in a bank
account. It could not be measured in
stocks and bonds.
It was simpler than that. Closer.
Within arm’s reach.
Her big family. Her grandchildren.
A home that became a haven to
anyone who needed a meal, a spare
bed, or a sympathetic smile during
the rough patches of life.
What did Graciela Rojas-Trabal’s
family learn from her?
“To be respectful. To be loyal,’’ her
granddaughter Ingrid Cosgrove told
me the other day on the porch of her
family’s home here. “She was a loving
woman. She was not rich. She worked
in poverty. She was a poor woman,
but if she had one hundred dollars
and she knew you needed forty, she
would give it to you.
“If she knew you were struggling
with something, she would be there
for you. And she would help you.’’
Graciela died in 2017 at the age
of 86, but now her family has found
a way to keep her legacy alive. It’s a
remarkable gift that will carry her
name and will honor the woman
who prayed the holy rosary each
afternoon at 3 o’clock, a woman
whose welcoming message was
always this: Come in. Have a seat.
Let’s share a meal.
Suffolk University Law School in
September announced a $1 million
gift that Ingrid Cosgrove’s husband,
health care venture capitalist Barry
C. Cosgrove JD’85, said will help
students like him, the son of a single
mom who has become one of the Law
School’s most generous supporters.
“Hopefully, there will be a lot of
kids like me from Brockton who
have promise, but don’t have the
confidence and don’t have the means
to go to a place like Suffolk where
there is rigor, but they also care,’’
Cosgrove said. “That’s a nice formula.’’
It’s a formula born out of a
relationship
that
blossomed,
remarkably enough, during the Red
Sox historic 2004 championship
season, when the New York Yankees
won the first three games of a sevengame series before fortunes turned,
history was made, and a curse was
broken.
Barry and Ingrid watched one
of the games of that titanic series in
Miami, where from across a hotel
lobby they first caught each other’s
attention.
Photograph by David L. Ryan
She grew up in poverty, the mother of seven, grandmother of 14, and the matriarch of
a close-knit neighborhood in her native Dominican Republic, where she taught others
what genuine riches really look like.
�“I thought she was beautiful,’’ Cosgrove, 62, told me the other day. “She didn’t speak
English. I didn’t speak Spanish. She had four kids. Who would believe that we would
meet? It was meant to be.’’
By the time they met, Ingrid, 50, was a widow with four children. They fell in love
and got married in 2009. By then, Barry had met the woman at the center of his new
love’s universe: Graciela.
“She helped me raise my kids,’’ Ingrid said of her grandmother. “They call her
grandma. For them, she’s their grandma. You can’t say anything bad about my grandma
with them. They just love her.’’
Her children recall Suffolk University’s newest scholarship namesake as the sweet
soul who taught them about faith, about kindness, about what loving your neighbor
really looks like. As they grew, their grandmother became their confidant, their friend,
and their true north. When she took out the rosary beads each afternoon at 3:00, they
witnessed how unwavering faith is practiced.
For Barry Cosgrove, whose own father abandoned his family when Cosgrove was
just a little boy, she personified what family life should be.
Cosgrove is the founder of a dialysis company and has spent much of his time trying
to figure out how to improve the lives of others.
“She had a remarkable and genuine ability to make people know she cared about
them,’’ he said. “She raised her own kids and other people’s kids as well. She was a giver,
not a taker. This gift will continue her giving.’’
When she died in late January 2017, there were nine days of services in Santo
Domingo. More than 200 mourners lined up at the family home. Some slept in chairs
or on couches. Buses transported her friends and family to the cemetery after her
funeral Mass.
They recalled the woman whose morning greeting never changed.
“Bendición,’’ she would say. “Blessings.’’
“We have tried to keep her house the way she had it,’’ Ingrid Cosgrove said.
“Everybody who goes on vacation in the Dominican, they go there to stay. She always
told everyone, ‘This is the maternal house. This is the house for everyone.’’’
Money from the $1 million scholarship fund will soon be disbursed. Suffolk is
looking for applications. It would be wonderful if the applicants are required to learn a
little something about the woman whose name adorns that scholarship.
Barry Cosgrove, who once swept the floors at Cardinal Spellman High School in
Brockton, would like that.
And so would Dean Andrew Perlman of the Suffolk Law School.
“What I love about this gift is that it’s so true to Suffolk’s identity,’’ Perlman told me
the other day. “Suffolk got started as a school in 1906 and was intended to provide an
opportunity for students to get an education when they otherwise wouldn’t have one,
either because of their race, religion, or national origin. Discrimination was rampant
back then. Suffolk was a place that opened doors for people who otherwise didn’t have
a chance.’’
Now those doors are being held open by a Dominican woman who quietly, in
dozens of small ways, made a huge impression.
“The way Barry is honoring his wife’s grandmother represents the kind of person
who we have tried to give opportunity to,’’ the Law School dean said. “She was a
giving person, and the idea that something is being created in her name that will give
opportunity to young people for education is true to our founding vision.’’
Her family knows what Graciela Rojas-Trabal would have to say about all of this.
“Bendición.’’
“Hopefully, there
will be a lot of
kids like me from
Brockton who have
promise, but don’t
have the confidence
and don’t have the
means to go to a
place like Suffolk
where there is
rigor, but they also
care,’’ Cosgrove
said. “That’s a nice
formula.’’
From The Boston Globe. © 2019 Boston Globe Media
Partners. All rights reserved. Used under license.
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�NEXT
GENERATION
By
Bill Marcus
Photography by
Kathy Chapman
Jessica Promes
JD’19; LIT Lab
Director David
Colarusso;
Chantal
Choi JD’19;
Nicole Siino
JD’18; and
Dean Andrew
Perlman
SPOT ON:
EASING ACCESS
TO LEGAL INFO
G
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etting useful legal information from court and other
government websites is a challenge, especially for people
who are not lawyers. The sites try to match users with the
right resources, but individuals often don’t know exactly what to
search for. Complicating matters further, laypeople and legal experts
use different language, making it hard to match a user’s question with a
court official’s or lawyer’s expertise.
As the director of the Legal Innovation and Technology (LIT)
Lab at Suffolk Law, David Colarusso is working to change this,
thanks to funding from the Pew Charitable Trusts. Along with
his LIT Lab students, Colarusso is developing a machine-based
algorithm that understands legal queries couched in lay terms,
improving access to justice.
Known as Spot, the software will be made publicly available via an
application programming interface, or API. It builds on work from
2018, when the Pew Charitable Trusts funded the development of an
online game, Learned Hands, created by the LIT Lab and its partners
at Stanford Law School’s Legal Design Lab. Lawyers, students, and
other gamers playing Learned Hands identify and label legal questions
posed by laypeople. Each time they play, they’re training a machine to
spot and sort legal issues.
With this new grant to develop the Spot tool, someone could type a
plain-English search query such as: “My apartment is so moldy I can’t
stay there anymore. Is there anything I can do?” The search results
would reveal that the query is highly likely to be related to a housing
issue or, more specifically, to the legal term “constructive eviction.”
“You know you have a housing problem. But very few people think
about their housing problems in terms of something like constructive
eviction,” explains Colarusso. “The idea is to have the tool be able to
spot those issues based upon people’s own language.”
Improving
the civil
legal
system
Colarusso and his students envision Spot being used by courts,
legal offices, and nonprofits to direct people to the most appropriate
resources—and in some cases even to software, similar to TurboTax,
that would walk users through filling out and submitting legal
documents. This fall, the LIT Lab was recognized for its gamechanging approach with a top honor, the InnovAction Award, from
the College of Law Practice Management.
The Lab’s API will be available at no charge to those working on
access-to-justice issues, says Colarusso.
Erika Rickard, senior official of Civil Legal System Modernization
at Pew Charitable Trusts, says the civil legal system is increasingly
navigated by people who don’t have legal help. Pew has set a goal to
modernize the courts’ relationship with users and make the legal
system more effective and accessible to all, especially low- to moderateincome populations.
“For those people, identifying and understanding their legal issues
are the first steps in tackling the problem,” she says. “By incorporating
Spot, legal information portals can better help these populations
successfully navigate the nation’s civil courts.”
GAINING GLOBAL ATTENTION
The LIT Lab’s Learned Hands crowdsourcing tool,
co-created with the Legal Design Lab at Stanford, was
shortlisted among 30 of the most innovative access-tojustice projects in the world by the World Justice Project
(WJP). The LIT Lab earned an invitation to The Hague for
the WJP’s World Justice Forum.
�NEXT
GENERATION
WHEN
CULTURAL
SURVIVAL
Clinic
student
takes case
to UN in
Geneva
By
Michael Fisch
Photograph
courtesy of
Nicole Friederichs
IS AT STAKE
Student
Attorney Cara
Libman JD’19
(second from
left) with HRIPC
Director Nicole
Friederichs
(far right) and
clients at the
United Nations
Office in
Geneva.
B
razil and its environmental news
are far away, but Cara Libman
JD’19 is playing a role closer to
the center of the fray. In April, she crossed
time zones and language barriers as a
student attorney in the Human Rights
and Indigenous Peoples Clinic (HRIPC).
Her mission: help an indigenous
community facing hardships caused by
environmental change.
Libman and Nicole Friederichs JD’03,
the director of the HRIPC, traveled to
Geneva, Switzerland, this past spring
to advocate before a United Nations
treaty body. While there, they joined
leaders of indigenous communities from
central Brazil who were laying out their
case for halting and rethinking massive
agribusiness infrastructure projects.
“The approach to
development is
unbalanced, and there’s
a culture at stake.”
“Indigenous communities living in the
savannah in Mato Grosso [a state about
800 miles from Brasilia, the capital] are
up against a booming agricultural export
business,” Libman explains. Most of that
business is related to soybean exports,
and the consequent roads, railroads,
and trucking routes being built in and
around areas that indigenous people
have historically claimed. One road that’s
in development will abut the spiritual
center of one indigenous group—the
home of its origin story.
As one indigenous leader argued in a
letter to the UN:
“The savannah is the source of our strength. Agribusiness doesn’t just destroy the forest that
surrounds our territories. It pollutes the rivers where we perform our rituals, that we bathe in, and
the water we drink. It contaminates the air. Because of this, agribusiness is destroying our dreams,
the source of our spirituality, and our future. Agribusiness contaminates the animals we eat and the
game that is essential for our rituals. Without game, we cannot perform our wedding ceremonies.
Agribusiness unbalances the world, the savannah, and threatens the very existence of our people.”
In 2019, before the Geneva trip, the HRIPC, working with indigenous community leaders,
submitted a communication to the UN treaty body outlining serious violations of indigenous
people’s rights to lands, natural resources, religion, and culture. The document also expressed
concerns about the Brazilian government’s commitment to consulting with indigenous groups about
the infrastructure projects—as evidenced by the weakening of FUNAI, the Brazilian government
authority responsible for protecting the rights of indigenous peoples.
“When the Brazilian government presents its infrastructure plans, building roads and railroad
lines, there’s never been an opportunity to reach a consensus,” Friederichs says. “When I talk about
the survival of the indigenous peoples of Mato Grosso, it’s cultural, physical, and spiritual. The land
is being destroyed where people gather and hunt; the environment is polluted; and the spiritual and
cultural life becomes impossible to sustain.”
This May, a month after the Clinic’s advocacy in Geneva, the UN treaty body issued a letter to
the Brazilian government calling on it to suspend the infrastructure projects in Matto Grosso until it
has properly consulted with the affected indigenous communities and obtained their free, prior, and
informed consent.
The Bolsonaro administration may not heed the letter’s findings, but it’s important to put the
government on notice that they’re being watched, Friederichs says.
“I understand that there are benefits for agribusiness exporters,” Libman adds, “but the indigenous
people aren’t negotiating on a level playing field.” Forests are clear-cut at a time of massive fires in the
Amazon; agricultural runoff is contaminating waterways; and plant and animal life is being destroyed,
she says. “The approach to development is unbalanced, and there’s a culture at stake.” Through her
Suffolk Law clinic experience, Libman is lending her voice to help balance the scales.
[Editor’s note: Nicole Friederichs JD’03, Director of the Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples Clinic, asked that the indigenous
group, indigenous leader, and United Nations body not be named to protect the clinic’s clients from possible retaliation.]
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�IMPACTFUL
ALUMNI
By
Jon Gorey
Photography by
Associated Press
JOSH KOSKOFF
TAKES ON THE
AR-15
It’s an uphill battle, he says, but worth the fight
O
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ne advertisement for the AR-15 Bushmaster rifle
used to kill 20 first-graders and six educators at Sandy
Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., read:
“Consider your man card re-issued.” Another said: “Forces of
opposition, bow down.”
In a case that’s earning much media attention and, predictably,
generating both political polarization and emotional intensity,
attorney Josh Koskoff JD’94 is leading a lawsuit against
Remington, the manufacturer of the Bushmaster.
Filed on behalf of some of the Newtown victims’ families, the
suit argues that Remington irresponsibly marketed its weapon
to at-risk young men. The case received an important green light
in November when the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal
from Remington arguing that a 2005 federal law shielded it
from liability. The case will now be sent back to the trial court in
Connecticut and proceed with the discovery process.
Koskoff wanted to help after talking to a family friend of slain
school teacher Vicki Soto, though he knew next to nothing
about gun cases at the time. “The Sandy Hook case really found
me, I didn’t find it,” he says. The case would later prove to be a
tipping point in his legal career, which had previously centered
mostly on medical malpractice.
“In the Sandy Hook case you have families whose lives have
been turned upside down,” he says. “They’re facing huge legal
challenges, but if they can get out of bed in the morning after
losing a child, then we have an obligation to help. I find it to be
a core motivating belief that I have about how the law should
be used.”
Koskoff is also representing Sandy Hook families in a
defamation suit against Alex Jones, the far-right conspiracy
theorist who for years insisted the all-too-real horror in
Newtown was a “giant hoax.” Those continual false claims took
root, leading to sustained harassment, stalking, and even death
threats against the already grieving parents.
In another case, Koskoff is suing eight different gunmakers
on behalf of a victim of the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting that
left 58 concertgoers dead and more than 500 injured. That
shooter had an arsenal of guns stockpiled, but relied entirely
on a dozen AR-15s from eight manufacturers to carry out the
attack, according to Koskoff. “And they were all equipped with
a bump stock,” he adds, a simple modification that can make a
semi-automatic rifle fire continuously like a machine gun.
Koskoff’s suit alleges that “with a reckless lack of regard
for public safety, defendant manufacturers courted buyers by
advertising their AR-15s as military weapons and signaling
the weapon’s ability to be simply modified.” In response, the
manufacturers are likely to argue that the gun is for hunting,
self-protection, and target practice and that under current law
manufacturers can’t be held liable for a gun’s illegal misuse.
A LAW SHIELDING GUN MANUFACTURERS
The manufacturers have a strong defense. That’s partly
because in 2005, Congress passed the Protection of Lawful
Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA), a law intended to shield
gun manufacturers from blame when their weapons are used in
a crime. Among other arguments, proponents of the PLCAA
�“In the Sandy
Hook case you
have families
whose lives have
been turned
upside down,”
he says. “They’re
facing huge legal
challenges, but if
they can get out of
bed in the morning
after losing a child,
then we have an
obligation to help.
I find it to be a
core motivating
belief that I have
about how the law
should be used.”
argued that it was necessary to protect the
gun industry from the high costs incurred in
defending unfounded lawsuits.
Koskoff was stunned to learn about
the PLCAA, and one thing he hopes to
accomplish by filing these suits, he says, is
to “shatter the perception” among lawyers,
judges, and the firearms industry itself that
gunmakers can’t be held accountable for
reckless behavior.
The law has some exceptions. According to
the New York Times, “[t]he [PLCAA] law does
allow for [lawsuits] for sale and marketing
practices that violate state or federal laws and
instances of so-called negligent entrustment,
in which a gun is carelessly given or sold to a
person posing a high risk of using it.”
Koskoff seeks to broaden the courts’
understanding of those exceptions, which
he believes will have a positive effect. “[The
law] gives the industry the sense that there’s
no conduct too reckless or too unethical
or amoral, that they can just do anything
regardless of public safety because they can’t
get sued,” he says. “Whether that’s true or not,
the perception is dangerous.”
THE LAW AS EQUALIZER
Long before Josh Koskoff enrolled at
Suffolk Law, he was drawn to a vision of the law
shaped by his father and grandfather—trial
lawyers in Connecticut who once represented
the Black Panthers in New Haven and helped
integrate the Bridgeport Police Department
during the Civil Rights era.
“They saw the role of the law, in its most
idealistic and important way, as the institution
that protects individuals from corporate or
government abuses, and really as the great
equalizer,” Koskoff says. “They seemed to be
always on the side of the underdog. It seemed
to me an incredibly noble profession.”
Suffolk Law was a great fit for him, he adds.
He appreciated that there was a whole cohort
of students who found a way to work during
the day and succeed at law school at night,
as well as the school’s practical approach.
“Suffolk really encouraged you to go out and
participate as early as you could in going to
court and getting your sea legs under you as a
lawyer—feeling what it was like.”
THE FAMILY FIRM
When Koskoff joined the firm founded
by his grandfather, Theodore Koskoff, who
received an honorary JD from Suffolk in
1980, it took him some time to find his
footing as he worked alongside his father,
Michael Koskoff.
“I did feel early on a sense of total
inadequacy, like I was going to torpedo the
good family name,” Koskoff reflects. “It took
a long time, but over many years we became
more like colleagues at work who enjoyed
challenging each other and coming up with
different ideas for cases. But we didn’t work on
a lot of cases together.”
That changed after Koskoff’s father was
diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. The
prominent attorney passed away in April at
the age of 77, but before he did, he asked his
son to work with him on one last lawsuit.
“When he got sick, he wanted to make sure
the case was in good shape, and it was my
incredible honor to work with him on it,”
Koskoff says.
He hasn’t forgotten his father’s idealism
and belief in the promise of the law to
protect everyone.
“There’s definitely a perception that the law
is unfair, that it favors the rich and powerful,
that it’s weighted against minorities—and
that perception is not invalid,” he says. “But
any case I could handle that could change
that perception, that could give people more
confidence that the law exists for everybody
and not just a few people at the top, I’ll take
that chance.”
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�IMPACTFUL
ALUMNI
By
Seth Jones
Photography by
Kent Smith
HOOP DREAMS
COME TRUE FOR
DAVID
DUQUETTE
Team counsel for NBA’s Charlotte Hornets shares how he got there
I
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t was a 1-in-1,000 shot, but David Duquette JD/
MBA’10 was willing to take it—again and again—
until he succeeded.
“My first three years in Boston, I probably wrote a
couple hundred letters and sent them out to various
NBA teams, just trying to make contact and get my
foot in the door,” Duquette says. “I wasn’t sure if I’d get
a break or not.”
Today, Duquette works as the director of basketball
strategy/team counsel for the NBA’s Charlotte
Hornets in North Carolina.
He has served in multiple roles for the Hornets
as his job has evolved and grown. Using his legal
background, his primary duties are player contracts
and acting as a liaison with the league office. But
Duquette also scouts both pro and college players and
does background research on players. Establishing the
Greensboro Swarm, the Hornets’ minor league team,
was another responsibility.
It’s a long way from Duquette’s unpaid internship
with the Minnesota Timberwolves. Over the years, he
had made a connection with longtime
NBA executive Rob Babcock (recently
deceased) of the Timberwolves. In
2009, Babcock called out of the blue
and asked Duquette, who was in his
first year at Suffolk Law, “How soon can
you be here?”
Duquette’s response was the right
one: “How soon do you need me?” The
answer: in three days.
“I said, ‘Sure, I’ll be there,’”
Duquette recalls. “This was the break
I was looking for. I picked up my
life and moved to Minnesota for the
summer.”
Duquette worked hard that summer and was offered a paid internship—
minimum wage—as the team’s basketball operations intern. He took classes
at the University of Minnesota as a visiting student and traveled back to
Suffolk to take three- and four-day intensive courses. After passing the bar,
Duquette was hired full-time by the Timberwolves as a basketball operations
assistant. In 2011, he accepted the same position with the Charlotte Hornets.
“For somebody who didn’t have any connection to this world, it’s a dream
come true,” he says. “The NBA is very much an apprenticeship kind of league.
Whether you played or came into the league some other way, most people
start at the bottom ... and once your foot is in the door, it’s up to you how high
you’re going to go.”
Duquette’s target was always the NBA. He interned with a sports agent
and also worked for the LPGA Tour, but professional basketball was his
No. 1 goal.
“For someone like myself who grew up idolizing Michael [Jordan] as a kid,
it’s pretty surreal for the last eight years to work for him,” Duquette says of
Michael Jordan, a six-time NBA champion, who also is principal owner of
the Hornets. “You hear that voice, it’s very iconic. He’s been awesome as an
owner; he’s admirable from a number of different perspectives.”
Looking back at his time at Suffolk, Duquette says his goal may have
seemed unlikely, but no one ever discouraged him from going for it. Suffolk
“positioned me perfectly. They gave me
the resources and the latitude to pursue
the passion,” he says. “Everyone was
always positive about me pursuing this,
always supportive.”
Now that he is living the basketball
life, Duquette, a married father of one,
says he wouldn’t change a thing about
his hoop dreams career.
“Most people go to law school and
they find the field that they enjoy ...
corporate law, tax law, you’re a litigator,”
Duquette says. “For me, the subject
matter is NBA players. Everything
about the NBA is enjoyable to me.”
“The NBA is very much
an apprenticeship kind
of league. Whether you
played or came into
the league some other
way, most people start
at the bottom.”
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By
Katy Ibsen
THE CONNECTOR:
CARMEN
ARCE-BOWEN
One graduate’s quest to build a more inclusive Boston
M
entoring is cyclical. And in
Boston, it’s possible that no one
knows that more than Carmen
Arce-Bowen LLM’06.
Arce-Bowen serves as the chief operating
officer of The Partnership Inc., a nonprofit
organization dedicated to the development
of increased diversity in Boston businesses
and corporate America—which is a
simple way to describe the impact she
has made on Boston’s multicultural and
underrepresented communities.
“Boston is a majority-minority city, and
we know that diversity spikes innovation,
and we know that we’re better off when
we are together,” she says, highlighting the
importance of a more diverse workforce,
especially in leadership positions. With the
U.S. Census Bureau estimating that people
of color in the United States will outnumber
Caucasians by 2042, corporate leadership
that reflects the actual population is vital to
business success, she argues.
In her role as COO, Arce-Bowen manages
finances, events, program content, and
recruitment for The Partnership’s leadership
development programs. The organization was
founded in 1987 to focus on the advancement
of African Americans in corporate Boston, an
issue that has long been a challenge for the city
and its business community. Over time, The
Partnership has evolved to focus on helping a
broad range of organizations build racially and
ethnically diverse leadership pipelines while
helping multicultural professionals rise and
thrive in the workforce.
Arce-Bowen is emerging as an important
voice among a new generation of leaders
in Boston who are focused on increasing
opportunities for professionals of color.
Arce-Bowen mentors a diverse group of
people, helping them tap into networks and
find opportunities to work with corporations,
nonprofits, political organizations, and, most
importantly, the communities they represent.
“That is something that in many ways
comes naturally to me—that’s what other
people have done for me,” she says.
Elizabeth Tran, director of constituent
affairs at the Massachusetts State Senate, met
Arce-Bowen through a career mentoring
program. Tran says Arce-Bowen helped her
consider opportunities ranging from applying
to the Peace Corps to exploring graduate
programs and attending Asian American
political advocacy events.
“The incredible characteristic of Carmen
as a mentor is that she listens to my goals
and then digs into her expansive network to
connect me with helpful people and resources
that can provide guidance and information,”
Tran says. “I am incredibly fortunate to have
her as my career mentor.”
In the arc of her own career, Arce-Bowen
notes the influence of Carol Fulp, former
president of The Partnership. “Carol has been
the most impactful mentor I have had in my
career. She is a person who deeply cares about
developing the next generation of leaders in
our community,” she says.
Fulp, who received an honorary doctorate
from Suffolk’s Sawyer Business School in
2017, is now CEO of her own diversity consultancy.
Fulp explains that Arce-Bowen reflects the next
generation of leaders in Boston. “She is diverse,
energetic, innovative, and global in her thinking.
She’s incredibly committed, and brings a broad
perspective,” says Fulp of Arce-Bowen.
When Arce-Bowen moved to the U.S. from
Mexico in 2005, she struggled at first to understand
the challenges and racial disparities facing American
communities of color. “We talk about class more
than about race,” she says of her native land. “When
I came here, I didn’t have all these thoughts about
race—or preconceptions … When [my peers]
faced a challenge, at the beginning I asked them,
‘Why is that happening?’” And she wondered,
would she start to have similar experiences?
She saw race issues through a slightly different
lens, and that view has ultimately become an
advantage.
“I almost feel like I’m able to see race relations
from the outside and then from inside,” she says.
That ability to be both outsider and insider,
sometimes simultaneously, may stem from the
communities she has embraced over the years.
There’s her family in Mazatlán, Mexico; her academic
community in Guadalajara, Mexico, where she
earned her LLB at Universidad Panamericana
and met her now-husband, James Bowen JD’06;
her Suffolk Law community; and the professional
communities she developed as director of personnel
and administration for Massachusetts Governor
Deval Patrick.
Arce-Bowen has long felt a pull toward
community building, which led her toward
nonprofit service and work with a number of social
justice and grassroots organizations. Suffolk Law’s
deep roots in local communities were an important
draw for her, she says.
Arce-Bowen says it’s never too early to start setting
goals and building a network.
She’s determined that her 9-year-old daughter,
Pilar, will understand that the sky isn’t even a limit.
As a family, they are exploring Pilar’s current dream
job: space researcher.
“I just want her to know that anything that she
wants is possible as long as she really wants it. And
she can always find a way to make those hopes and
those dreams come true,” Arce-Bowen says.
And you’re never too young to start making your
way. When Pilar gripes about only being 9, her
mother responds, “Kid, I want you to start learning
how to tap into your own network!”
Photography by
Mark Wilson
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�IMPACTFUL
ALUMNI
By
Stephanie
Schorow
Photography by
Mark Wilson
B. STEPHANIE SIEGMANN
IS TENACIOUS
AGAINST
TERRORISM
The first female chief of the National Security Unit of the Massachusetts U.S. Attorney’s Office opens up
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oliticians talk about fighting terrorism, but B.
Stephanie Siegmann JD’97 has looked dangerous
extremists square in the eyes and figured out how to
get them behind bars.
One of the nation’s top anti-terrorism prosecutors, she
serves as the chief of the National Security Unit of the
Massachusetts U.S. Attorney’s Office, the first woman to serve
in the prestigious position.
“Democracy is under attack by these individuals,” says
Siegmann, with an edge to her voice. “I don’t know how long
that will continue. But this does shake you and make you want
to do something positive to help prevent future attacks.”
In an interview, Siegmann overflows with enthusiasm;
words pour out of her in gusts. When asked about this
intensity, she says, “I think it all comes from my background. I
had to fight so hard to get here, and it was always a struggle. So
I look at each day as a new opportunity. What can I do today?”
Siegmann’s desire to be a lawyer dates to her youth growing
up in New Jersey. When she was only 10 months old, her
father, an enlisted service member in the Air Force, was killed
by a drunk driver. Her mother told her details of her father’s
death when she was 12 years old and that he had hoped to
become a lawyer. Stephanie resolved to become a lawyer to
honor his memory. Her path would not be easy.
Her mother and stepfather were not well off, and no one
in her family had attended college. Three months before she
entered Boston University as a freshman, her stepfather lost
his job. By Siegmann’s sophomore year, she was deep in debt
and was asked to leave the university.
She began working full time as a paralegal and was admitted
into the University of Massachusetts Boston in 1991. In her
senior year, she came home to find her roommate gone and
learned that she had stolen all the money Siegmann had given
her for rent. Just three months before graduation, she owed
$3,000 and faced eviction. Siegmann marshaled her energy,
asked the university for help getting a loan, and graduated on time in May 1994,
heading straight to law school.
“Suffolk opened up a whole new world for me,” she says. She was selected for the
Suffolk University Law Review and graduated magna cum laude. She then served as
a lieutenant in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps in the U.S. Navy for three years,
prosecuting cases ranging from murder to rape to child abuse.
After joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the District of Massachusetts as an
assistant U.S. attorney in 2003, she quickly became known for her tenacity. She
didn’t waste time jockeying for prominent cases—instead she took on cases in
areas like export control. It wasn’t “sexy,” but she told herself, “I have to work harder
than anybody else to prove myself.”
Her attitude paid off. Siegmann went on to prosecute numerous high-profile
domestic and international terrorism cases, including the Boston Marathon
bombing obstruction case and
cases of conspiracy to provide
material support to ISIS and
“Don’t waste your time
al Qaeda. She also successfully
fighting over high-profile
prosecuted a case involving
a Chinese citizen who ran a
cases; you can make your
network supplying material to
mark in taking on something
Iran’s nuclear weapons program.
In June 2018, she was named
that maybe no one else has
chief of the National Security
done but where you can
Unit, the unit in which she has
worked since 2004.
prove yourself.”
Former Acting U.S. Attorney
William “Bill” Weinreb served
as the lead prosecutor on United
States v. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and supervised Siegmann’s work. He calls her one of
the country’s most experienced national security prosecutors and a leading expert
in cases involving the illegal export of controlled technology.
“She has also been a leader in helping DOJ, other government agencies, and
private industry work together to maximize the effectiveness of government
enforcement efforts,” he says. “She is a star in the courtroom, in the classroom, and
in the conference room—she does it all.”
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WHY MASSACHUSETTS
SHOULD PASS THE
Commentary by
Gabe Teninbaum,
Professor and
Director of the
Legal Innovation
& Technology
Institute
FACIAL
RECOGNITION
MORATORIUM
ACT
M
assachusetts recently marked the 150th anniversary of one of the most damaging
errors in scientific history. In 1868, a French scientist, Étienne Léopold Trouvelot,
imported a new breed of caterpillar to the state. He knew that American silk-spinning
caterpillars were susceptible to disease, so he hoped to hybridize them with new imports. In
actuality, he imported gypsy moths. The moths promptly escaped, spread, and became an
environmental scourge. Now, they defoliate 1 million acres of American forest a year, costing
$868 million.
As a professor focused on teaching law students how to deploy new technologies, I have seen
the digital equivalent of gypsy moths unleashed at a scale unimaginable in the 19th century. The
proliferation of face and biometric recognition technologies are particularly concerning. These
tools secretly record us when we’re in public, and then store our information in databases to make
us instantly recognizable by our voice, retinas, face, or gait. Police in Massachusetts are currently
using biometric recognition technology—scanning photos in the Registry of Motor Vehicles’
database to search for suspects in criminal investigations, for instance—without any legislative
approval or judicial oversight.
Biometric recognition tools are not only in use here. They have
also been used in China, where the government deploys them to
efficiently round up religious minorities and police petty crimes
like jaywalking. If you think that sort of abuse is unimaginable in
America, consider the recent revelation that federal authorities
distributed a secret list of activists, lawyers, and reporters to stop
for added scrutiny at the border because of their criticism of the
current administration’s policies.
In addition to raising privacy concerns, these tools can also be
inaccurate. In one recent test, Amazon’s facial recognition tool falsely
identified 28 members of Congress. It also disproportionately
misidentified people of color, tagging them as people who had been
arrested for a crime. The tools not only steal our anonymity—they
may tell police we are someone we are not.
Even tech companies that stand to profit are sounding the
alarm. Google recently announced it would not release a general face surveillance product
“before working through the important technology and policy questions.” Microsoft’s president
published a blog post calling for the government to step in and regulate the technology.
We should heed these warnings, before the situation spirals out of control. Thankfully,
lawmakers in Massachusetts have introduced a bill, known as the Face Surveillance Moratorium
Act, that recognizes the dangers unregulated biometric surveillance poses to our basic rights and
freedoms. The bill says that, before we use these tools, we need to debate how, when, and why
they’re to be used, and decide who will have oversight to prevent abuse. Notably, the act doesn’t
permanently ban the technology. Instead, it follows the path recommended by the tech giants
Photograph Shutterstock
“We
should
heed these
warnings,
before the
situation
spirals out
of control.”
who created them: Consider their use carefully,
and legislate accordingly.
The proper balance between authority and
privacy is personal for me, not only because I
care about democracy, but also because of my
own background in law enforcement.
As a young man, I served as an operations
support technician in the U.S. Secret Service,
spanning the period before and after 9/11.
Protecting our highest officials and supporting
criminal investigations was among the highest
honors in my life. But more than a decade after
returning my badge and gun, I received an
alarming letter from the federal government. It
said the government had been hacked by foreign
agents, and I was one of millions of federal
employees whose security forms had been
stolen. A foreign, hostile government had gotten
our complete files, including dozens of pages
detailing employees’ backgrounds, beliefs, family
and friendships, and financial information.
My file was supposedly kept in a “secure”
computer database. Reality proved otherwise.
In the end, the Chinese government got my
secrets and Uncle Sam gave me five years of
free credit monitoring for my trouble. I wish
our government had paused to analyze the
safeguards that were supposed to have kept my
confidential data safe.
From gypsy moths to privacy-invading
technologies, the butterfly effect can morph a
tiny ripple into a hugely destructive force. In the
case of face recognition software, we still have
time to pause, and we should do so by passing
the Face Surveillance Moratorium Act.
This essay was originally published on Cognoscenti, wbur.
org’s ideas and opinion page. It was reposted with permission.
You can read the original piece at www.wbur.org/cognoscenti.
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LEADERS
Story by
Michael Fisch
Photography by
Michael J. Clarke
Professor David Yamada
LEADING AT THE INTERSECTION OF
WELL-BEING AND THE LAW
Suffolk Law faculty share insights on workplace bullying legislation,
positive psychology, and a tool for mindful lawyering
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eriodic scientific surveys conducted
by the Workplace Bullying Institute
estimate that one-third of America’s
workers have been a target of workplace
bullying at some point during their careers—
but unlike most countries in Europe and
South America, the U.S. lacks laws to address
the phenomenon.
In Massachusetts, 109 of the state’s 200
legislators have co-sponsored the Healthy
Workplace Bill, written by Professor David
Yamada, director of the Institute. The
legislation gives severely bullied workers a
cause of action and creates legal incentives
for employers to prevent and respond to
workplace bullying.
Yamada’s legislation is just one of many
reasons he received the Bruce Winick Award
for outstanding contributions to the field of
therapeutic jurisprudence this past summer at
the International Congress on Law and Mental
Health in Rome. Therapeutic jurisprudence
analyzes whether laws and legal systems
promote or detract from the advancement of
psychological well-being and human dignity.
The field uses research and insights to
produce practical legal and policy outcomes,
Yamada says: ”Look at bureaucratic forms,
for example. Do they lead to resolution
of a problem or promote conflict? One
therapeutic jurisprudence study looks at
ways to improve a state’s marital dissolution
form and revises it to promote a peaceful and
less stressful resolution.”
The workplace bullying bill’s language is
modeled on the law of sexual harassment
under Title VII and doesn’t make it overly easy
to sue. “I set the bar higher for recovery—you
need to show intent to harm,” Yamada says.
“We need to open this door carefully.”
One of Yamada’s former students,
Massachusetts
State
Representative
Danielle Gregoire JD’06, says that the law
professor’s policy efforts have had a ripple
effect across the country: “It was at his
urging that I co-sponsored his legislation
to ban workplace bullying, and I’m happy
to continue our work together to see this
bill become law so we can better protect
Bay State employees.”
The legislation is a good example of
the practical nature of the therapeutic
jurisprudence movement, Yamada says:
“There’s not a lot of pretension in the field.”
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MORE ON WELL-BEING
AND THE LAW
THINK LIKE A LAWYER—
BUT NOT AT YOUR OWN EXPENSE
MINDFUL, FOCUSED—AND A LAW STUDENT
Mindful Lawyering: The Key to Creative Problem
Solving
Professors Kathleen Elliott Vinson JD’95,
Samantha Alexis Moppett JD’95, and Shailini
Jandial George
Professors Vinson, Moppett, and George wrote
their book, Mindful Lawyering: The Key to Creative
Problem Solving, as a practical tool to help law students
and attorneys develop focus and creative approaches to
solving problems—in a climate dominated by mobile
phones, constant interruptions, and stressful deadlines.
Lessons from the book are applied as part of the Law
School’s Wellness Wednesdays program, which Vinson
pioneered. The program teaches students strategies to
cope with stress, enhance focus, develop healthy habits,
and increase community.
Professor Lisle Baker
“Integrating Positive Psychology Into Legal
Education”
48 Southwestern Law Review 295 (2019)
“Positive psychology” may sound like a phrase from a
sunny self-help book, but it’s actually the scientific study
of well-being. And it can be used to help law students
have a healthier educational experience and outlook.
Since 2017, Professor Lisle Baker has led a national
conference at the Law School, “Integrating Positive
Psychology Into Legal Education.” Baker earned a
master’s degree in the discipline from the University of
Pennsylvania in 2016.
So how might the field’s work help law students?
Baker’s Southwestern Law Review article explores ideas
offered by positive psychology conference participants,
including an insight shared by psychologist Dr. Larry
Richard, an expert on lawyer behavior.
Richard argued that attorneys’ skepticism, which
can be so helpful in court, may not be as helpful at
home or, even worse, counterproductive if turned
inward excessively. Richard reported that skepticism is
a characteristic of 90% of the attorneys he has surveyed
over the years, far higher than the norm for other
occupational groups.
Based on that insight, professors and support staff
might remind law students that they are being trained
to be professional skeptics and to use that particular tool
consciously, when it’s specifically needed.
Making use of insights from applied positive
psychology is important at Suffolk, which has signed on
to the American Bar Association’s Well-Being Pledge, a
national effort to reduce the levels of stress and substance
abuse in the legal profession. The pledge has been
endorsed by many leading law firms as well as the Office
of the Massachusetts Attorney General.
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�THOUGHT
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By
Michael Fisch
Photography by
Ben Gebo
Associate Dean Leah
Chan Grinvald
TOUGH GIG:
DOES TRADEMARK LAW NEED A MAKEOVER?
Associate Dean Leah Chan Grinvald on rethinking
trademark law for the “gig economy”
In a new world where millions work for “gig economy” platforms like Uber and food-delivery service
DoorDash, the courts are trying to sort out who’s an employee and who’s a contractor. However, another
critical digital commerce question is getting less attention: Does the structure of these platforms require
a new set of trademark laws?
Associate Dean and Intellectual Property Professor Leah Chan Grinvald addresses this question in
“Platform Law and the Brand Enterprise” (Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Vol. 32, 2018, with Professor
Sonia Katyal). We spoke with Grinvald this fall.
WHAT PROBLEM DOES YOUR ARTICLE ADDRESS?
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In our paper, Sonia and I refer to platforms like Airbnb, Etsy, and Uber as “macrobrands.” These sites
host a bunch of smaller businesses that we call “microbrands”—the people driving for Uber or renting
out their homes on Airbnb, for example.
Many companies are sending the macrobrands takedown notices, alleging trademark violations
on the part of individual gig workers—the microbrands. For example, Airbnb might receive a notice
from Marriott to take down a listing by someone with the last name of Marriott who is hosting their
room or house on the platform. Those allegations are frequently unsupported by the facts; but
because there’s no efficient or economical legal process available to assess and challenge allegations, the
hosts—the macrobrands—honor the takedown requests.
Macrobrands won’t be able to survive if they’re regularly forced to take down the pages of the
small businesses that are the heart of their enterprises. And gig economy workers find their lives
turned upside down.
CAN YOU GIVE US AN EXAMPLE OF HOW THIS PLAYS OUT IN THE REAL WORLD?
One example involves an artist who was selling Frida Kahlo dolls on Etsy. The Frida Kahlo
Corporation sent a takedown notice. Etsy complied, even though the case is extremely complex and
it’s not clear at all that the Kahlo estate actually has the rights to the trademark. And if they do have
rights, it’s still not clear that the Kahlo trademark has been infringed by this artist. Etsy’s position is that
current trademark law forces them to take down their users’ sites or face legal challenges, possibly even
monetary damages.
ARE THE MACROBRANDS TRYING
TO CHANGE TRADEMARK LAW?
Yes. Etsy teamed up with Foursquare,
Kickstarter, Meetup, and Shapeways
to ask the government for a change
in trademark law that would provide
a new set of legal protections for
macrobrands—similar to the existing
rules in copyright law.
One of the macrobrands looked at all
of the takedown requests it had received
in a year and argued that a large majority
of those requests were marginal. The
macrobrand nevertheless felt compelled
to comply because it didn’t have the
resources to fight so many requests.
The current system, essentially
automatic takedown on request,
regardless of validity, isn’t fair—and it’s
not economically sustainable. It places
macrobrands in a situation where they’re
working against their own business
model and often ignoring the important
goals of trademark laws. One of those
goals is to balance a trademark owner’s
rights with the individual right to satirize
and make political statements, a careful
balance that is ignored when platforms
don’t fight back.
Our paper lays out a set of
recommendations for changes in the
law that we think would help level the
playing field for microbrands, protect
free speech, and still protect trademark
holders.
�GIVING
BACK
Law school and three jobs
Global Citizen
PAYS IT
FORWARD
Marie-Louise Skafte
credits former dean with
academic opportunity
Dean’s Cabinet member Marie-Louise
Skafte JD’96 has travelled the world
during her notable legal career, but she
almost didn’t make it through law school.
At a moment when she feared she would
be unable to continue to pay for her legal
studies because of the unavailability of
financial aid for international students
at the time, then-dean Paul Sugarman
HLLD’89 helped Skafte secure a trustee’s
loan. His kindness made all the difference
in keeping Skafte’s dreams of her legal
career alive, she says. And like so many
Suffolk Law alumni, she took advantage
of the opportunity.
Global citizen and lawyer
If you sketch out the course of Skafte’s
life and career, you’re covering a lot of
territory. Places she has lived include
Vancouver (twice); Taulov, Denmark,
where she spoke both Danish and
English; Toronto; Koko Kai, Hawaii;
Waterloo, Ontario; Ithaca, N.Y.; Boston;
San Francisco; and Fort Lauderdale,
punctuated by regular travels to London
and various cities across Europe, Asia, the
Middle East, South America, and Africa.
Over the years, Skafte has worked as general
counsel and corporate secretary for DHL
Canada (now Deutsche Post DHL – Canada)
as well as general counsel and head of human
resources and corporate compliance for Cronos
Limited, a leading global marine container
leasing company. At Cronos, she led operations
for 19 countries and was appointed head of
office in the U.S. She now runs her own global
consulting firm and enjoys traveling so much
that she is in the final stages of obtaining a
commercial pilot’s license.
Skafte’s work in international logistics—
vastly simplified, getting products from one
country to some other far-flung spot—brought
her to meetings with indigenous peoples on
their sacred lands. One pro bono trip led a group
of South Africans to show their gratitude by
breaking into local gospel songs. But the most
unusual gathering, she says, was at the famed
Blue Lagoon, a geothermal spa in southwestern
Iceland, during the dark winter months.
“We met with our clients in the afternoon,
but it was already pitch black, except for a super
bright moon. I can still see it: There was steam
coming up from the water. We were in this
caravan type situation, walking together in the
darkness, in our swimsuits.”
Her time at Suffolk Law was far more
modest. To stay afloat, Skafte worked three
jobs, including stints as an intern at Massport,
where she later took a full-time position as the
airport business office’s first attorney. Her office
building was right on the tarmac, she says. “I
remember taking down some photo frames
and there were huge black outlines on the wall
around the frames—and then realizing that it
was jet exhaust.”
Air quality aside, she adds, the Massport
jobs were great building blocks for her;
they taught her about the intersection of
government, logistics, and business. Since
she continued working a part-time side job
as a flight attendant (she started after her
first year in law school), her office’s location
at the airport was helpful. It was easy to
trade her work clothes for her flight uniform.
Other jobs in law school included modeling,
working in an Italian restaurant handling
take-out orders, and serving as a legal intern
to the general counsel at a restaurant chain.
Given her strenuous schedule, getting
through law school was itself a logistical
challenge, but Skafte says she appreciated the
pragmatic nature of her Suffolk Law education.
“It prepared me well,” she says. “The Legal
Practice Skills class taught us how to write briefs
and memos in a way that was so relatable. When
I got to Massport and the deputy GC gave me
my first assignment and said, ‘Can you brief me
on that?,’ I was ready.”
By
Michael Fisch
Photograph
courtesy of
Marie-Louise
Skafte
Paying it forward
Now Skafte wants to pay it forward. She has
created a $100,000 scholarship for Suffolk Law
students—with first preference for students
who have international backgrounds and are
struggling, as she did, to keep up with tuition.
One reason for the scholarship is her
appreciation for Suffolk Law students. She recalls
how welcoming her classmates were: “They knew
that I was coming from Canada and didn’t know
much about Boston, and I was just blown away by
the embracing nature of the students.”
Skafte also wants to show the kind of
generosity that Suffolk Law showed to her
when she needed it the most. She recently
reconnected with former dean Paul Sugarman
and told him that the loan he arranged and the
encouragement he gave “changed the course of
my career and my life.”
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By
Michael Fisch
Photography by
Michael J. Clarke
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Mark Sullivan JD’79
�GIVING
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INNOVATION
ECONOMY
Suffolk Leader Helps Students Navigate the
Trustee Mark Sullivan’s $250,000 gift supports
education at the nexus of business and IP
When audio giant Bose Corporation introduces
a new product, says the company’s retired chief legal
officer, Mark Sullivan JD’79, engineers from some
competing companies have been known to take
the product apart and study it, piece by piece, to
understand the innovations housed within.
It’s not hyperbole on Sullivan’s part. Bose is known
for disruptive innovations, including noise-canceling
headphones, audio speakers designed for a specific
car’s cabin acoustics, and small, easy-to-hang cube
speakers that produce big-speaker sound. Sullivan
was tasked with protecting all that ingenuity.
In the late 1990s, he and his team wrested $8.2
million in patent infringement and legal damages
from JBL, a division of Harman Kardon. Over the
decades, Sullivan regularly faced the challenge of
knock-offs of patented Bose technologies.
In 2016, after 35 years at Bose, Sullivan retired
from that prestigious job and its directive “to protect
the lifeblood of the company, Bose technological
advancements, and to bring Bose’s innovative
products to customers throughout the world.”
His career at the company began with
accounting and tax law and then grew to include
a wide range of legal issues, including negotiating
manufacturing and sales deals with government
officials around the globe and a stream of patent
and counterfeiting issues.
While Sullivan is quick to deflect attention from
himself—and not in the “humble brag” manner
common these days—some quick research shows
his years at Bose were marked by growth, both for
those around him and for the company as a whole.
During his tenure, the company’s sales revenue
shot up from $50 million to approximately $4
billion. The legal department grew from a one-man
operation, Sullivan, to 28 lawyers, including six
based in Europe and Asia.
“They don’t have
to be engineers”
The evolution of his career helped him better
understand a critical nexus: IP law, business
investment, and innovation. Sullivan, who serves
as Vice Chair of Suffolk’s Board of Trustees, has
donated $250,000 to the Law School with an eye
toward creating a growing cohort of graduates who
are “comfortable and conversant in IP—and able to
speak intelligently with engineers, entrepreneurs,
and investors.”
“They don’t have to be engineers themselves,”
he adds, “but they do need some broad knowledge
about how innovations and trademarks are
protected.” That know-how will give students a
leg up in the job market. He says: “The need for
IP knowledge is spreading to so many areas of the
law, and it’s where a lot of the financial investment
is made.”
How to hinder
counterfeiting?
One example of the importance of protecting
IP, he says, was figuring out how to get Bose’s
products into the massive Asian market without a
huge loss from counterfeiting or crippling customs
duties. Over the years, it had become abundantly
clear that protecting innovations would be nearimpossible to manage in China.
The solution? Producing products at a new Bose
plant in Malaysia, a country known for its strong legal
system based on English common law and its low
tariff arrangement with the Chinese government.
A lesson from
Shark Tank
The value of IP knowledge, while
oversimplified, is underscored
on national television, Sullivan
says, on shows like Shark Tank, in
which famous investors bombard
entrepreneurs with questions about
patents and trademark protection.
The entrepreneurs quickly come
to understand that they generally
can’t get funding if their ideas can’t
be protected.
Suffolk is known for its sizable
footprint in patent law, and
Sullivan notes that the school’s
graduates make up 30% of the
top IP firm patent partners in
Greater Boston—and its IP
concentration and downtown
location make it ideal for law
students to land internships with
corporations and startups.
Sullivan, who grew up in
Roslindale, Mass., and attended
Boston public schools, says of
Suffolk: “It’s a school with a
working-class heart, great teachers,
and a unique, we’ll-get-throughthis-together camaraderie among
the students. I wouldn’t be where I
am today without my Suffolk legal
education.
“The school gave me the
opportunity to combine business
and legal skill, which was critical
to my career trajectory. I had great
faculty teaching me corporations,
agency, a host of tax law courses.
“But it’s been a long time since
I graduated,” Sullivan adds. “Each
decade brings its own wrinkle
in terms of the combination of
knowledge and experience you
need to succeed as a lawyer. For
many new graduates, they’ll need
to operate comfortably in the
innovation economy. Suffolk Law
can help them get ahead in an
economy that cycles new products
in months versus years.”
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�GIVING
BACK
YOU WANT
TO GIVE,
but You’re Not Sure
How or When
Prof. Philip C. Kaplan on a little-known
tool: the CRUT
RECORDBREAKING
REUNION
Class of 1969 makes extraordinary
effort at 50-year mark
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The Suffolk Law Class of 1969 commemorated its 50th reunion with an outpouring of
generosity, raising a record-breaking $449,300 to fund scholarships for the next generation
of Suffolk Law alumni. On May 31, 2019, more than 75 members of the Class of ’69
gathered at Boston’s Omni Parker House for an evening of celebration and philanthropy.
Eight members of the Class of 1969—Hon. Carmine M. Bravo (ret.), Henry Kara,
Paul Kaufman, Rich Rubino, Lew Sassoon, Ted Schwartz, Jim Sokolove, and Mario
Zangari—led the exceptional fundraising efforts. Wanting to honor the world-class
legal education that enabled their professional careers, the Class of 1969 donors
committed to providing future law students with the same opportunity at Suffolk.
“The impact of this event has been extraordinary. It has renewed relationships and given
us a greater sense of love and commitment to the school, and an unprecedented sense of
pride in our past,” said Schwartz.
The Class of 1969 has a history of paying it forward. In honor of their 35th reunion,
members of the class raised $320,000 to establish their scholarship fund, a record no other
class has broken.
Law School Dean Andrew Perlman hosted a reception to honor the class members,
who were inducted into the Half-Century Club. To conclude the evening, two recent
recipients of the Class of 1969 Scholarship, Adam S. Rizk JD’13 and Tara Q. Higgins
JD’18, spoke of the impact of the support they had received.
“That freedom led me to broaden my horizons, hone my skills, and obtain two
clerkship opportunities with two incredible judges, one of whom is a fellow Suffolk
alum,” said Higgins.
Professor Philip C.
Kaplan JD’88
From left: John Gillooly, Michael J. Clarke, Gleb Budilovsky
Left to right: Anthony DeLuca JD’69; Alan Kraut JD’69;
J. David Damico JD’69; Jerry Scarano JD’69; Dean Andrew Perlman; Theodore
Schwartz JD’69; Paul Kaufman JD’69; and Hon. Carmine M. Bravo (ret.) JD’69
Suffolk Law Professor Philip C. Kaplan JD’88 had a
dilemma. He wanted his estate to provide for his loved
ones, but he also wondered how he could give back to
the law school he had graduated from and taught at
for decades. Could he help Suffolk Law students with
financial needs pay for school?
“My desire to provide for Suffolk Law seemed to
conflict with my desire to provide for my beneficiaries,”
he said. The solution: an estate-planning tool called a
CRUT—a charitable remainder unitrust.
The trust will provide income to his beneficiaries
for life and then pay the remaining principal to the
charities he’s chosen, including the Law School, he
explains. A significant portion of Kaplan’s estate will
one day fund a Suffolk Law scholarship in his name.
“Most people have never heard of a CRUT and
don’t know that the Law School will provide an
attorney at no charge to execute the agreement,” he
said. “I want people to know that they can provide for
their families and still give back to the Law School.
That conflict about how to do both can be resolved.
“I appreciate the opportunities the Law School has
given me,” he continued. “I appreciate the students
and want to help more students be able to afford law
school. I just needed a way to do both.”
�GIVING
BACK
Kevin Fitzgerald
JD’82
Dean’s Group Launches for
RECENT
GRADS
Larry Nussbaum gives back by
joining the Dean’s Associates
Kevin Fitzgerald on Being
“AN UNFASHIONABLE
SUCCESS”
How do you take a Boston-based regional law firm with roughly 100 attorneys and turn it
into an Am Law 100 member with 650 lawyers, 16 offices spanning New York to Shanghai,
and more than half a billion dollars in gross revenue? The right person to ask is Dean’s Cabinet
member Kevin M. Fitzgerald JD’82, a key leader of Nixon Peabody for nearly 30 years.
Outside the circle
The Nixon Peabody growth story, Fitzgerald says, involves bringing together smart and
hard-working attorneys, most of them outside the small circle of the most prestigious firms in
the country. “In Britain, they call those firms the ‘Magic Circle,’” he says. “If you’re outside the
circle but still successful, you’re called an ‘unfashionable success,’ and that’s what we became.”
A nose for business
So how does one become an unfashionable success? The firm requires a relentless focus
on “occasionally unsexy but essential work: understanding the business climate and its
relationship to the legal economy; networking effectively; the nuts-and-bolts elements of
running a practice,” Fitzgerald notes. And two ever-present questions—“What’s our plan
for generating revenue? Where’s the business going to come from?” Those critical questions
have become part of the firm’s culture “and helped define an archetypal hire—a person with
both a fine legal mind and a nose for where business might come from.”
Hanging out with the justice
Fitzgerald, a partner at the firm and long-time chair of Nixon Peabody’s Policy Committee,
looks back fondly on his years at Suffolk Law, describing a camaraderie among students and
an overarching feeling that good things would happen, that “like so many of the good and
successful alumni, you could be successful too.”
That esprit de corps has long been a hallmark of the school. One of Fitzgerald’s many
examples: “I was in a class with Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Justice Joseph Nolan,
and he would hang out after class and talk with us. I was excited to be found sufficiently
interesting for the justice—someone who was so wise and had accomplished so much in his
field—to stick around and have conversations and care about my responses.”
As to why he joined the Dean’s Cabinet, Fitzgerald says, “I wanted to go back to the people
and the places that helped me succeed and thank them. The successes I’ve had are directly a
function of the experience I had at the Law School.” He adds, “Suffolk Law is similar to Nixon
Peabody in a way, I suppose. Perhaps not in the Magic Circle of the most elite institutions, yet
no less an unfashionable success.”
The Law School recently launched a new
group, the Dean’s Associates, for alumni who
have graduated within the last 10 years and make
a financial commitment to the school of at least
$25,000, which can be satisfied over five years.
Group members support Law School initiatives
and serve as ambassadors of the school.
Founding member Larry Nussbaum JD’11,
a personal injury attorney and principal of
Nussbaum Law Group, says, “I committed to
joining the group because the Law School allowed
me to make a name for myself. I knew that once
I was able to have some success, I wanted to give
back to the school that allowed that to happen.”
Nussbaum recalls that his most memorable
courses at Suffolk covered real-world skills, such as
Professor Richard Pizzano BA’63, JD’66 offering
insights into how to handle clients and how to talk
to judges. And he learned personal lessons from
faculty such as Professor Karen Blum JD’74, who
taught his civil procedure course. “She taught me it
was okay to be myself and do it my own way, and I
still lean on her for advice,” he says.
Nussbaum says joining the Dean’s Associates
will allow members to build relationships with
successful lawyers in a variety of fields and to
nurture those relationships. The group will meet
with members of the Dean’s Cabinet annually.
For more information about this leadership
opportunity, please contact Kathy Tricca
BSBA’82, Director of the Summa Leadership
Giving Program, at ktricca@suffolk.edu.
Larry Nussbaum
JD’11
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�“I Am Standing on
Shifting Sand”
Reflecting on the challenges of immigration law
By Shannon Dooling | Photography by Bryce Vickmark
It may be impossible to overstate the complexities of the immigration crisis playing out along the U.S. southern border.
There are the legalities associated with the apprehension of hundreds of thousands of migrants during a surge this year
that overwhelmed border facilities, along with changes in the asylum application process. The immigration system itself is
facing unprecedented pressures, and all of this is playing out in a politically polarized environment.
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We reached out to three alumnae in the field and the head of Suffolk Law’s immigration clinic to better understand these
challenges and how they view the future.
�“It Changes You”
Maybe it was the 18-hour work days or the sight of mothers and
children clinging to one another in fear. It could have been the scent of
petrol wafting through the surrounding fracking fields or the scathing term
“baby jail” used by some to describe the facility. Whatever the reason,
the week Alexandra Peredo Carroll JD’06 volunteered at an immigrant
detention center in Dilley, Texas, in 2015 was an eye-opener, even for the
experienced immigration attorney.
That year, federal judge Dolly M. Gee found that the two detention
centers in Texas that the Obama administration opened failed to meet
minimum legal requirements for facilities housing children.
“Being witness to those conditions and the way people are treated in
our own country changes your perspective in life—it changes you,” Peredo
Carroll says.
She went to Texas with a group of immigration attorneys from the
New England Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association
(AILA). Their days at the South Texas Family Residential Center, which
opened in 2014 to house women and children from Central America,
were spent at the detention facility working with clients. In the evenings,
attorneys prepped for bond hearings and “credible fear” interviews. During
the latter, individuals attempt to demonstrate that they have a credible fear
of returning to their home country.
“I think we all came out of that trip as different people. It was during
that week that I realized I wanted to work at a nonprofit doing this kind of
work,” Peredo Carroll says.
Three months later, she interviewed for a pro bono coordinating
attorney position with the Boston office of Kids in Need of Defense
(KIND), whose mission is to “represent unaccompanied immigrant and
refugee children in their deportation proceedings.” Her work for KIND
took her back to the border in 2018, to the Port Isabel Detention Center
in Harlingen, Texas, after the Trump administration’s decision to separate
migrant children from families who were detained as they attempted
to enter the U.S. illegally. The Trump administration contended that
separation would deter families from making the hazardous journey to the
United States.
“I thought that I would be prepared,” she says. “But what I witnessed,
working with mothers and fathers who had their children forcibly
separated from them, was truly the worst thing I have ever seen in my life.
Nothing in the world could have prepared me for that.”
As managing attorney for KIND’s Boston office, Peredo Carroll now
helps to train and mentor pro bono attorneys representing children in
removal proceedings. When asked if she’s hopeful about the future of
immigration law, she answers without hesitation: “Always hope. I do think
there’s always hope that the justice system will prevail.”
Alexandra Peredo
Carroll JD’06
�Lawyers,
the Most
Powerful
Tool
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Rachel Self JD’04
Rachel Self JD’04, a legal analyst for Fox News and CNN,
has a private practice in Boston specializing in what she calls
“crimmigration,” the intersection of criminal law and immigration
law. She splits her time between criminal trial work, deportation
defense, adjustment of status cases, and other immigration matters.
Over the last 15 years, Self says she’s developed valuable relationships
with government officials and prides herself on maintaining them
during a tumultuous period for U.S. immigration policy.
Self’s approach to representing clients has changed from the past,
when she could recommend some clients fill out an application on
their own. Now, she says, that suggestion is almost laughable: “For
one thing, forms that used to be one or two pages are now in excess
of 20 pages, and in some cases there are 10 to 12 different forms that
need to be submitted.”
In February 2018, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
(CIS), the Department of Homeland Security agency that
oversees adjustment of immigration status, changed its mission
statement, eliminating the phrase describing the U.S. as a “nation
of immigrants.” A new statement on the agency’s website says the
office focuses on administering “the nation’s lawful immigration
system.” This change was not lost on immigration advocates and
attorneys like Self.
L. Francis Cissna, then-director of CIS, described the revision
as a “simple, straightforward statement” that “clearly defines the
agency’s role in our country’s lawful immigration system and the
commitment we have to the American people.”
“Over the last two years, I’ve noticed a significant shift within
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, away from the spirit of
an agency that exists to provide a service,” Self says.
So Self throws everything she can at a case. That could mean
proactively sending additional application materials before they
have been requested, knowing that the process for something
like a green card or a visa application has become unpredictably
complicated.
“People are paying $2,000 in filing fees just to file applications
in many cases, and because the agency is so busy and has so many
new directives, there are needless errors being made, which are
completely avoidable, and devastating to the client,” she explains,
citing issues like paperwork that has already been submitted being
overlooked and materials being filed under incorrect names. Each
error or oversight can derail a process that already takes months or
years.
Self believes many of the career government employees tasked
with executing rapid-fire policy changes and new procedures are
just as confused and frustrated as the attorneys and clients who are
forced to adjust.
“I am standing on shifting sand, which means my feet are moving
and my advice could change next week,” she says.
Individuals who support more restrictive immigration policies
often argue that the immigration system is too easily exploited by
people who do not have legitimate claims to enter or remain in
the U.S. But that doesn’t mean one should ignore due process and
constitutional violations that result from policy changes, Self argues.
“The way we fight back,” she says, “is through the courts.”
�Janeth Moreno LLM’09
“it makes
everything
worth it”
Janeth Moreno LLM’09 is empowering immigrant communities with the tools they need
to know their rights. The founder of Moreno Law in downtown Boston, she’s been in private
practice for three years. The bulk of her cases are asylum claims, a facet of immigration law
that has seen some of the most fundamental changes under the current administration.
In June 2018, then-Attorney General of the United States Jeff Sessions summarily reversed
the finding that women fleeing domestic violence from certain countries could qualify as
a special social class when applying for asylum in the U.S. Moreno says the announcement
immediately eliminated what many immigration attorneys considered a crucial adjudication
strategy.
In issuing the decision, Sessions wrote that asylum claims had expanded too broadly to
include victims of “private violence,” like domestic violence or gangs, so he narrowed the
type of asylum requests allowed.
“We’ve seen more restrictions, more restrictive venues. We don’t have the law on our side
right now,” Moreno says.
Perhaps no system has undergone more upheaval in the last three years than the asylum
application process. The Trump administration—citing a system of loopholes that it
contends are readily abused—has made it more difficult for people to apply for asylum,
instituting in January 2019 what it calls the Migrant Protection Protocols, also known as the
“remain in Mexico” policy. This new process requires people to wait at the southern border
for their chance to begin the asylum application process. A recent series of agreements struck
with the governments of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador is part of a plan to prevent
Central American migrants from applying for asylum in the U.S. if they have not first done
so in another country.
These additional challenges mean Moreno needs to be sure her clients are even better
prepared. To that end, Moreno not only works with local consulates of Colombia, Mexico,
Guatemala, and El Salvador but also connects directly with immigrant communities in New
England, bringing “Know Your Rights” sessions into neighborhood churches. One lesson
shared at the sessions is that immigrants facing ICE agents have the right to remain silent and
to speak to a lawyer.
She says it is empowering to share information in an informal group setting, where
people feel safe: “I’ve seen the impact in the communities, it’s making a difference. It makes
everything worth it.”
Ragini Shah, Clinical
Professor of Law
The Path
Forward
Clinical Professor of Law Ragini Shah sees the potential for
students to play a critical role in the immigration system. Shah came
to Suffolk Law 11 years ago to found its Immigration Clinic, which
represents detained immigrants facing removal from the U.S. While
there’s always been a healthy student interest in the clinic, Shah is
seeing an increased interest from incoming students who say they
know immigration law is their path.
“Immigration policy has always been sort of harsh, particularly
for the population we serve at the clinic, but this administration has
brought it into the public discourse in a way that we’ve never seen,”
she says. And aspiring lawyers are paying attention. For better or
worse, the rhetoric out of Washington, D.C., is sparking dialogue.
Shah’s goal in the Immigration Clinic is to select cases for students
that help illuminate a larger issue—such as the factors that drive
migration from Central America and the human consequences of
something like the “remain in Mexico” policy.
She says keeping one’s bearings in a dramatically shifting landscape
can be challenging, so she wants to make sure her students can feel
grounded while they’re learning.
“I spend a lot more time reading decisions that are coming down,
not just for my own knowledge,” she says. “But I’m trying to give my
students a sense that, even though policy is rapidly changing, there are
legal anchors, so let’s find those anchors together.”
It’s easy to get discouraged working within a complicated system
when every day seems to bring changes. Yet Shah finds hope in the
community of lawyers sharing advice and banding together to file
class action lawsuits against the Department of Homeland Security
and other government agencies.
The biggest takeaway for Shah’s students often is the connection
with their clients. For Shah, it’s her connection to her students: “Being
a part of this moment and being a part of their journey to becoming
better lawyers, I feel privileged.”
�Laury Lucien JD’15 is chief
legal strategist at Greenlight
Business Solutions.
THE
CANNABIS
CONUNDRUM
Graduates inspired by the
emerging industry push
on despite challenges
By Jon Gorey | Photography by Adam DeTour
I
t’s rare to see entrenched opposition to an
illegal substance collapse in real time. But
such is the case with marijuana, where the
foundations of criminalization are cracking
and giving way to legalization, one state at a time.
Rarer still is the opportunity to build an entirely
new industry and legal landscape from the rubble.
Several Suffolk Law alumni have embraced this
unusual opportunity to become trailblazers in
the nascent and legally complex recreational
cannabis industry in Massachusetts.
The changes came so quickly that none of them
could have anticipated their work in the field just
a few years ago.
�A standout student at Suffolk Law, Laury Lucien
JD’15 spent her first two and a half years after law
school at the prestigious firm Holland & Knight,
where she focused on mergers and acquisitions as
well as corporate healthcare law. She worked closely
with regulators and municipal agencies, ideal training
for her next and unexpected career venture—into the
highly regulated cannabis industry.
Today, Lucien, who grew up in Haiti, is chief legal
strategist at Greenlight Business Solutions, one of six
organizations recently chosen by the Massachusetts
Cannabis Control Commission (CCC) to help train
cannabis entrepreneurs and professionals. She’s also a
founder of Major Bloom, a business that will cultivate,
manufacture, and sell cannabis.
Lucien sits on the Board of Advisors of the
Massachusetts Recreational Consumer Council,
which works to ensure a safe marijuana industry. And
she teaches Cannabis Law at Suffolk. She cites her
own law school education in preparing her to navigate
the challenges of the budding industry. “Cannabis
is multidisciplinary—you need to know banking
law, securities law, you need to know real estate and
municipal law, corporate law. You need all those
pieces,” she says.
You also need access to capital. That doesn’t
come easy in an industry selling a substance that
remains federally prohibited. The federal ban means
entrepreneurs don’t have access to traditional
commercial bank lending.
Lacking those resources, it can be nearly impossible
to start a cannabis company—something Lucien
learned firsthand. She had previously pursued a
medical-use cannabis license in Massachusetts, but
found the costs of entry out of reach. “You had to
prove that you had half a million dollars just to apply
for a license, so it basically kicked us out,” she says.
“We were having tremendous difficulty raising funds
as people who weren’t born into privilege.”
After striking out in medical marijuana, Lucien
didn’t give up. She joined forces with a core group of
partners, and in 2017, she founded Major Bloom. The
company focuses on the adult-use market and is 98%
owned by people of color.
LEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD
When Massachusetts legalized recreational cannabis
in 2016, the law included an economic empowerment
mandate and a first-in-the-nation social equity
component. The provisions are aimed at encouraging
“full participation” in the regulated cannabis industry by
minority-led businesses and people from communities
that have been disproportionately harmed by drug laws.
Social attitudes toward cannabis may be shifting,
but that hasn’t erased the damage done by decades
of discriminatory enforcement of marijuana laws,
says Suffolk Law Professor Emeritus Eric Blumenson.
“Research shows that white and black populations
use marijuana at about the same rate, but arrests,
convictions, and jail sentences have been many times
higher for black communities,” he says. The peak
of the decades-long war on drugs that packed U.S.
prisons saw 800,000 marijuana arrests annually. And
while many of those arrested for cannabis initially
dodged jail time, many others “ultimately went to jail
for inconsequential probation violations based on the
original conviction,” Blumenson says.
From his perch atop the state’s Cannabis Control
Commission, Shawn Collins sees a major policy
challenge in figuring out how to create an equitable
industry. Collins is executive director of the CCC, which
regulates the industry in the state. He’s also a double
Ram, who earned his BS in Government from Suffolk
University in 2008 and his JD from Suffolk Law in
2013. He went on to work on healthcare policy in state
government and became legislative and policy director
for State Treasurer Deb Goldberg, whose office oversees
alcohol policy. With the 2016 legalization ballot question
pending, it fell to Collins to figure out the most effective
and efficient ways to regulate cannabis.
“That’s really how I got introduced to cannabis
policy,” he said. The independent CCC was created,
and Collins was a natural for the executive director
post. When he started two years ago, there were no
desks, no phone numbers, no employees, not even an
address, mirroring the state of Massachusetts’ fledgling
cannabis industry. Today the Commission has grown
from just Collins to 60 employees, though they are still
in temporary office space. He’s spent much of his time
building the nuts and bolts of the agency, which has a
bureaucratic role as a licensing and regulatory agency.
But Collins adds that the cannabis statute, shaped
by the ballot question, also includes a mission—that
the industry, as it develops, should be inclusive and
represent the communities where facilities are located.
“It acknowledges, frankly, that while cannabis has
been illegal, both federally and locally, there are folks
that have been disproportionately harmed by the
enforcement of those laws,” Collins says.
Part of the Commission’s focus is on fostering
economic empowerment, including making it easier
for small operators and entrepreneurs to launch their
businesses. But Collins says the federal prohibition is
inhibiting those startups: “If you want to open up a bar
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�Left to right:
Andrea Cabral
JD’86, CEO
of Ascend
Mass LLC and
MassGrow LLC;
and Shawn
Collins BS’08,
JD’13, executive
director of
Massachusetts’
Cannabis Control
Commission
or a restaurant or an ice cream shop, HVAC or plumbing,
or any small business—you name it—you can get a bank
loan, and you can present your business plan. You cannot
do that in the cannabis context.”
Andrea Cabral JD’86 says writing social equity into the
regulations was the right thing to do, but adds that the
execution still needs improvement. Cabral, former Suffolk
County sheriff and Massachusetts secretary of public
safety, now serves as chief executive of Ascend Mass LLC,
a subsidiary of the multi-state cannabis retail operator
Ascend Wellness. “You can write it down, and you can
make it the law, but the real issue in leveling the playing
field is access to capital,” Cabral says.
Despite a decades-long career in law enforcement,
Cabral says she never understood the villainizing of
cannabis. She sees alcohol as far more destructive. “A lot
has to do with their respective histories, but it just always
struck me as unfair,” she says.
In legalized cannabis, Cabral saw a once-in-a-lifetime
opportunity to enter an industry at the ground level.
“You can go through your entire life, through generations,
and never have a brand-new industry to consider being a
part of,” she said. “There aren’t that many industries, new
or otherwise, that present that kind of opportunity for
women or a person of color that this one presents.”
Still, like Lucien, Cabral adds that it is nearly impossible
to start a cannabis company without the help of private
equity, an issue that she says needs to be resolved.
IT HELPS TO KNOW THE LAW
While she says it’s imperfect, Lucien credits the social
equity mandate with opening at least some avenues
for minority entrepreneurs to get into the industry—
including herself. But she has also relied heavily on the
experience she has gained along the way, including her
Suffolk Law education. Without knowledge of the law,
problems can quickly arise, she explains. For example,
without access to traditional banking, cannabis operators
often turn to friends and family for funding, not realizing
that those investments may be considered offerings
prohibited by securities law. Real estate law proves useful
when negotiating a lease or sale agreement or navigating
the special permit process. Corporate law is essential
when forming a company among partners, and tax law is
crucial. “The amount you have to pay in taxes is insane,
and you need to know tax law. You have to have a great
accounting team,” she says.
In the end, Collins says successfully creating an equitable
industry will require assistance from private industry,
specifically, access to banks. In the meantime, the CCC is
working toward building a strong infrastructure as well as
sustainable equity programs so that if and when banks can
come to the table, they will be more willing to lend.
All say they are hopeful that federal prohibition will be
lifted in favor of a clear, consistent system of regulation
that is accompanied by public health and safety measures.
And while Cabral expects federal prohibition to fall, full
legalization may happen in fits and starts, leaving a legal
hodgepodge in the interim. To groundbreaking pot
pioneers like Lucien and Cabral, that means hard work
ahead, but also an exciting challenge. “It presents a lot
of great opportunities to think outside the box and be
creative,” Cabral says, “because the path has not been trod
already on a lot of this stuff.”
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NOTES
PROFESSIONAL
AND PERSONAL
MILESTONES FROM
SUFFOLK ALUMNI
Andrew S. Mullin JD’91
IN-HOUSE
LEADERS
ANDREW S. MULLIN JD’91 and DAMIAN W.
WILMOT JD’00 have been recognized as 2019 InHouse Leader honorees by Massachusetts Lawyers
Weekly and New England In-House for outstanding
professional accomplishments in the legal field.
The class of 25 general counsels and staff attorneys
are nominated by colleagues, clients, and legal
professionals and selected by Massachusetts
Lawyers Weekly’s editorial department.
Mullin serves as vice president and chief
counsel for BAE Systems Electronic Systems,
where he is responsible for managing the sector’s
legal department, consisting of in-house attorneys
and staff, and the export and ethics functions.
At Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc., Wilmot serves
as the senior vice president and chief risk and
compliance officer. He is responsible for leading
the company’s global compliance, global litigation
and enterprise risk management, and quality
assurance organizations.
Damian W. Wilmot JD’00
1970
ROBERT H. ROWE, retired
attorney and former New
Hampshire special justice,
received special recognition
from the New Hampshire Bar
Association for his 18 years of
service to the state as a member
of the New Hampshire
House of Representatives.
He currently serves as an
elected Hillsborough County
commissioner. Rowe is the
author of two histories and one
historical novel and resides in
Amherst, NH.
1975
BRIAN M. HURLEY, of the
real estate litigation practice
for Rackemann, Sawyer &
Brewster, was named to The
Best Lawyers in America 2020.
1977
KENNETH A. GRAHAM, retired assistant attorney general
for the State of Connecticut, has been reappointed by
the Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court to
a seventh term of office as Superior Court trial referee.
He was also reappointed to a three-year term of office as
Superior Court arbitrator/fact finder. He took his oaths
of office on June 12, 2019, the 42nd anniversary of his
graduation from Suffolk University Law School.
SARAH HALL LUICK was honored for over 35
years of service as a board member for the national
nonprofit the Animal Legal Defense Fund. The Fund
is celebrating its 40th year working to protect the lives
and advance the interests of animals in the legal system.
1981
DAVID E. CHERNY was selected for inclusion in The Best
Lawyers in America 2020 in the field of family law. He
is a partner in the Boston firm Atwood & Cherny PC,
where he concentrates his practice in the area of complex
matrimonial and family law litigation at the trial and
appellate court levels.
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1982
ROBERT P. AVOLIO has joined
Eckert Seamans’ Litigation division in
Princeton, NJ.
1983
MICHAEL MAZZONE has been named
cochair of the litigation practice group
at Haynes and Boone LLP.
1985
THOMAS M. BOND was named vice
president of the Massachusetts Bar
Association for its 2019-20 year.
1986
ELLEN M. HARRINGTON, of
Rackemann, Sawyer & Brewster,
was named to The Best Lawyers in
America 2020. She serves on the firm’s
Executive Committee and chairs
Rackemann’s Trusts and Estates
Department.
1991
LISA CUKIER was named a 2019 “Top
Woman of Law” by Massachusetts Lawyers
Weekly. She is a partner and executive
member at Boston-based Burns & Levinson.
GARY MERKEN, an attorney with the Large
Business & International Division of the
IRS Office of Chief Counsel in Philadelphia,
was acknowledged for his contributions to
the 11th edition of Black’s Law Dictionary,
published in June 2019.
ROBERT RIVERS JR. was selected as 2019
Boston Family Law’s “Lawyer of the Year” by
Best Lawyers. He is a partner at Lee & Rivers
LLP in Boston.
1992
MEL PASSARELLI has joined Aspera
Technologies as its new president and
CEO. He has over 30 years of experience in
corporate strategy and growth.
1988
DENISE I. MURPHY was named
president-elect of the Massachusetts
Bar Association for its 2019-20 year.
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SHELDON CRAIG TOPLITT has been
appointed chair of the Massachusetts
Bar Association in the Real Estate
Section Council for the 2019-2020
year.
THOMAS TUTTLE was appointed bar and
policy compliance specialist in the Office of
General Counsel of Ropes & Gray LLP.
1994
ANN MARIE MACCARONE was appointed to
the Cranston (RI) City Planning Commission
for a four-year term by Cranston Mayor Allan
Fung JD’95.
1995
ERIN M.
BOUCHER was
named partner
at Morrison
Mahoney LLP.
JENNIFER
PARENT has
become a fellow
of the American
College of Trial
Lawyers. She
is a director
at McLane
Middleton and
chair of the firm’s Litigation Department.
1997
1989
JOHN C. LA LIBERTE, partner at Sherin
and Lodgen LLP, was named to The Best
Lawyers in America 2020. He is chair of
the firm’s bankruptcy and creditor rights
group, as well as cochair of the business
litigation, construction law, and real
estate litigation practice groups.
1993
LYNNE F. RILEY was named a 2019 “Top
Woman of Law” by Massachusetts Lawyers
Weekly. She is a partner in Casner & Edwards’
bankruptcy and restructuring group. Riley
has argued numerous appeals before the First
Circuit Court of Appeals and the Bankruptcy
Appellate Panel for the First Circuit and
has authored amicus briefs for the United
States Supreme Court, the First Circuit,
and the Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeals on
significant bankruptcy issues.
MEREDITH
COOK was
appointed
chancellor of
the Roman
Catholic
Diocese of
Manchester,
NH. She
has been
a member of the New Hampshire Bar
Association for more than 20 years. In 2001,
she received the Saint Thomas More Award,
presented by the Catholic Lawyers Guild of
New Hampshire to a lawyer or judge who
is a practicing Catholic and who embodies
the spirit of Saint Thomas More in his or her
courage, dedication, integrity, civility, and
compassion toward others.
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NOTES
JESSICA GRAF has joined
Sullivan and Worcester LLP’s
real estate group as counsel
in Boston. Previously with
Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Graf
counsels clients on all aspects
of environmental law.
UYEN MONG TRAN
was appointed assistant
attorney general in the
Massachusetts Attorney
General’s Office and
chair of the Contributory
Retirement Appeal Board
on July 22, 2019.
ADAM P. WHITNEY was
selected to Super Lawyers for
2019. He is the founder and
owner of the Law Office
of Adam P. Whitney in
Boston.
2000
MICHAEL J. FENCER
BS’97 has been named
to The Best Lawyers
in America 2020. He
focuses on bankruptcy,
creditor and debtor rights,
insolvency, construction,
and reorganization law with
Casner & Edwards LLP.
2001
KEVIN MALTBY was
sworn in as associate
justice of the Northampton
(MA) District Court on
September 12, 2018.
2003
ELIZABETH K. LEVINE, an
employment lawyer and litigator with
Boston firm Goulston & Storrs, has
been promoted to shareholder.
The Insurance Library Association of
Boston has named PAUL TETRAULT as
the organization’s new executive director.
2004
SETH BONNEAU has joined DLA
Piper’s finance practice as a partner in
the Boston office.
HEATHER
GAMACHE
has joined
Rackemann,
Sawyer &
Brewster as
a director
in the firm’s
litigation
practice.
Previously,
she served
as a partner at the Boston-based law firm
Prince Lobel Tye.
2005
MIA B. FRIEDMAN has joined Fish
& Richardson as pro bono manager.
Friedman will lead and manage the
firm’s pro bono practice for Fish’s 11
U.S. offices.
MARIAH L. HEPPE has joined Estate
Preservation Law Offices (EPLO),
Worcester,
MA, as an
attorney.
Her practice
at EPLO
concentrates
on estate
planning and
elder law.
RACHEL MOYNIHAN has been promoted to
member (partner) at Eckert Seamans. She
focuses her practice on commercial litigation,
employment law, and product liability and
handles employment, trade secret, real estate, and
trust litigation.
2006
KEVIN POWERS of the Law Offices of Kevin J.
Powers, together with Andrew M. Fischer JD’80
and Andrew J. Brodie III JD’04, both of the Law
Offices of Jeffrey S. Glassman LLC in Boston,
briefed and argued Meyer v. Veolia Energy North
America on behalf of plaintiff Richard Meyer. On
May 8, 2019, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial
Court decided in favor of Meyer. The case, which
clarified the law regarding the right of a plaintiff
to bring a claim for injuries resulting from road
defects, is a watershed moment in Massachusetts
tort law.
MICHAEL RUEDA has been named a partner at
global firm Withers LLP. Based in New York, he is
head of US sports and entertainment for the firm.
Goulston & Storrs director TIMOTHY W.
SULLIVAN MBA’06 was named a 2019 “40 Under
40” honoree by the Boston Business Journal. Sullivan
is the only lawyer on the 2019 list who specializes in
real estate law.
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2007
KELLY B. CASTRIOTTA was promoted to
regional head of product development for
financial lines, North America, for Allianz
Global Corporate and Specialty.
KENNETH A. SHERMAN joined
Robinson+Cole (R+C) in Boston. He
is an experienced construction attorney
with significant construction litigation and
transactional experience.
ANGEL KOZELI MOZINA has written a
chapter, “Legal Aspects of Commercial
Condominiums,” for the 2019 supplement
to the Massachusetts Continuing Legal
Education’s (MCLE) Massachusetts
Condominium Law practice manual. She is a
director in the real estate practice of Boston
firm Rackemann, Sawyer & Brewster.
2009
MARK HEINZELMAN has joined Rubin and
Rudman LLP as a partner in the litigation
group.
LORI K. VAULDING BS’06 has been named
a partner at Morrison Mahoney LLP.
2010
MARGARET HAGEN published How Can
So Many Be Wrong?: Making the Due Process
Case for an Eyewitness Expert. The book,
written with Sou Hee Yang, discusses the
importance of the defense having access to
expert testimony on eyewitness reliability in
cases where that testimony is critical.
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HEIDI A. SEELY, attorney at Rackemann,
Sawyer & Brewster, served as moderator
at the Boston Bar Association’s program
“Advising Trustees and Serving as a Trustee
in Massachusetts” on April 26, 2019. She
has been appointed cochair of the Public
Policy Committee of the Boston Bar
Association’s trusts and estates section.
2011
KATHLEEN A. FEDERICO was elected
partner at Morrison Mahoney in Boston.
She is a graduate of the MBA 2018-2019
Leadership Academy and received the
2019 Massachusetts Defense Lawyers
Association’s Rising Star Award.
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NOTES
JENNIFER GARNER joined Chamberlain Hrdlicka as a real estate
associate based in Atlanta.
KIMBERLY MASON has joined Pastori | Krans PLLC, a Concord, NHbased litigation firm, as an associate.
2014
RAY GRANT and MEGAN WEBER JD’15 were married in Bristol, RI, on
June 8, 2019.
CHRISTOPHER C. STORM was elected
partner at Morrison Mahoney in Boston.
He represents insurance companies,
national retailers, attorneys, and real estate
and design professionals in the areas of
professional liability, insurance coverage,
tort and liability defense, and commercial
and business litigation. He is also a
Proctor of Admiralty with experience in
maritime liens, Jones Act, and Longshore
and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act
(LHWCA) cases.
2012
BRIDGET R. LOPEZ was elected partner
at Morrison Mahoney in Boston.
ERIC LOSEY was promoted to member
(partner) at Eckert Seamans. Losey
concentrates his practice on the defense
of personal injury, property damages, and
environmental cases, including the defense
of asbestos, mass tort, and product liability
litigation matters in Massachusetts and
Rhode Island.
MATTHEW R. O’CONNOR has
joined Pierce Atwood LLP as an
associate in the firm’s litigation
and business practice groups.
JACLYN MCNEELY, associate at Sherin
and Lodgen LLP in the Employment Law
Department, has been chosen as cochair
of the Women’s Bar Association of
Massachusetts’ New Lawyers Committee.
MICHAEL TRIPICCO and wife Jessica
welcomed daughter Miriam Patricia on
July 11, 2019.
2013
DILER ERDENGIZ is serving with the
United Nations Mission in Kosovo as a
political affairs officer.
2016
KIMBERLY SMITH has joined the
Connecticut law firm of Brody
Wilkinson PC as an associate.
2018
CLINTON OAS has joined Williams Mullen as an associate in the firm’s
litigation and tax sections.
AMANDA C. SCAFIDI BS’10 has joined Eckert Seamans as an associate
in the firm’s Boston office and Litigation division.
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CABINET
COMMITTED ALUMNI
INVEST IN THE FUTURE
OF SUFFOLK LAW
DEAN’S CABINET
NOW HAS 40
MEMBERS
DEMONSTRATING
COMMITMENT,
OFFERING A
VOICE
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The Dean’s Cabinet now has 40 members, each
of whom has committed at least $50,000 to support
initiatives of the Law School. Since this magazine
featured the Dean’s Cabinet last spring, 10 new
members have joined the team of generous benefactors
dedicated to advancing the Law School’s mission—
through both philanthropy and strategic consultation.
Two recent members share what inspired them to join.
JEFFREY R.
DRAGO JD’04
“Under Dean Perlman’s leadership, Suffolk University Law
School has remained true to its founding mission of providing a
first-class legal education to striving students from the inner city
looking for an opportunity in the law. I know the benefits of this
access firsthand, which is why I’m proud to support Suffolk Law as
a member of the Dean’s Cabinet today.”
LINDA J.
WONDRACK
JD’95
“I am very motivated by
how Dean Perlman is leading
the Law School, specifically
his focus on enabling and
arming students with the skills
necessary to succeed in the
future.”
�DEAN’S
CABINET
SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL
DEAN’S CABINET MEMBERS
Patricia M. Annino JD’81
Partner
Rimon Law, PC
Boston, MA
Joy L. Backer JD’15
Associate
WilmerHale, LLP
Boston, MA
Alexander A. Bove, Jr.
JD’67
Partner
Bove & Langa, PC
Boston, MA
Brian T. Brandt JD’96
Managing Director
SCS Financial, LLC
Boston, MA
Claudine A. Cloutier JD’95
Partner
Keches Law Group, PC
Taunton, MA
Barry C. Cosgrove JD’85
Chairman & CEO
Blackmore Partners, LLC
Laguna Beach, CA
Gerry D’Ambrosio JD’93
Partner
D’Ambrosio Brown, LLP
Boston, MA
Gerard S. DiFiore JD’84
Partner
Reed Smith, LLP
New York, NY
Jeffrey R. Drago JD’04
Partner
Drago + Toscano, LLP
Boston, MA
Kevin M. Fitzgerald JD’82
Partner
Nixon Peabody, LLP
Manchester, NH
Christine Newman Garvey
JD’72, Trustee
Global Head of Corporate Real
Estate and Services (ret.)
Deutsche Bank AG
Santa Barbara, CA
Kenneth T. Gear BSBA’89,
JD’95
Chief Executive Officer
Leading Builders of America,
Inc.
Washington, DC
Deborah Marson JD’78
Executive Vice President,
General Counsel, and
Secretary
Iron Mountain, Inc.
Boston, MA
Marc S. Geller JD’71
Vice President
Cedar Crossing
Management, LLC
Houston, TX
Michael J. McCormack
JD’72
Partner
McCormack Suny, LLC
Boston, MA
Joseph W. Glannon
Professor of Law
Suffolk University Law School
Boston, MA
Timothy M. McCrystal
JD’89
Partner
Ropes & Gray, LLP
Boston, MA
Ernst Guerrier BS’91,
JD’94, Trustee
Principal
Guerrier & Associates, PC
Boston, MA
James F. Haley, Jr. JD’75
Partner
Haley Guiliano, LLP
New York, NY
Henry G. Kara BSBA’66,
JD’69
President
Kara Law Offices
Boston, MA
Brian E. McManus JD’71
President
McManus Capital Management
Fort Worth, TX
Robert T. Noonan JD’85
Regional Managing Partner
– Tax
KPMG, LLP
Boston, MA
Eric J. Parker JD’86
Partner
Parker Scheer, LLP
Boston, MA
George N. Keches JD’75
Senior Partner
Keches Law Group, LLC
Taunton, MA
Jamie A. Sasson JD’04
Managing Partner
The Ticktin Law Group, PA
Deerfield Beach, FL
James A. Lack JD’96
Attorney
Law Office of James A. Lack
Boston, MA
Lewis A. Sassoon JD’69
Partner
Sassoon & Cymrot LLP
Boston, MA
Warren G. Levenbaum
JD’72
Managing Partner
Levenbaum Trachtenberg, PLC
Phoenix, AZ
Janis B. Schiff JD’83
Partner
Holland & Knight, LLP
Washington, DC
Konstantinos Ligris JD’01,
Trustee
Founder & Board Member
Ligris + Associates, PC
Co-Founder
Stavvy & Escrow Mint, LLC
Newton, MA
Alan B. Sharaf JD’87
Partner
Sharaf & Maloney, PC
Brookline, MA
Marie-Louise Skafte JD’96
Principal
Skafte Global Law, PA
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Wayne E. Smith BSBA’77,
JD’82
Adjunct Professor
Suffolk University Law School
Firm Director (ret.)
Deloitte Tax, LLP
Boston, MA
Regina C. Sullivan JD’88
Managing Partner
Gaman Real Estate Group, LLC
Wellesley, MA
Thomas M. Sullivan JD’94,
Trustee
Founding Partner
Lando & Anastasi, LLP
Cambridge, MA
Instructor
Suffolk University
Sawyer Business School
Boston, MA
James S. Trainor, Jr. JD’00
Partner
Fenwick & West LLP
New York, NY
Kenneth J. Vacovec JD’75
Senior Partner
Vacovec, Mayotte & Singer, LLP
Newton, MA
Richard J. Walsh BA’58,
JD’60
Attorney (ret.)
Federal Trade Commission
Naples, FL
Stephen N. Wilchins JD’82
Founding Partner
Wilchins, Cosentino, Friend, LLP
Wellesley, MA
Linda J. Wondrack JD’95
EVP, Head of Compliance
Fidelity Investments
Boston, MA
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�ALUMNI
EVENTS
CAPTURING
MEMORABLE MOMENTS
FROM SCHOOL
GATHERINGS
1
2
CLINICAL AND EXPERIENTIAL
PROGRAMS 5TH ANNUAL
ALUMNI RECEPTION AND
AWARD PRESENTATION
THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 2019
Sargent Hall, Boston
This year’s celebration of our nationally ranked
Clinical & Experiential Programs honored Trustee
Ernst Guerrier BS’91, JD’94 with the Outstanding
Clinical Alumni Award. Photographs by John Gillooly
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1.
2.
Melissa Marquez BA’14, JD’17; Rose
Kiggundu JD’18; Najma Hussain BA’15,
JD’18; and Amanda Scafidi BS’10, JD’18
Sarah Boonin, Director, Clinical Programs and Director, Health Law Clinic; Dean
Andrew Perlman; Ernst Guerrier BS’91, JD’94, Trustee and Dean’s Cabinet; and
Kim McLaurin, Associate Dean and Clinical Professor of Law
�ALUMNI
EVENTS
LAW SCHOOL
CLASS OF 1969 50TH
REUNION DINNER
FRIDAY, MAY 31, 2019
1
2
Omni Parker House, Boston
On Friday, May 31, the Suffolk University
Law School Class of 1969 celebrated its
50th reunion with a special dinner at the
Omni Parker House Hotel in Boston. See
story on page 28. Photographs by John
Gillooly
1.
Dean Andrew Perlman; Richard Krezel
JD’69; and Cindy Krezel
2.
Bonnie Damico; J. David Damico JD’69;
Jennifer Scarano; Hon. Carmine M. Bravo
JD’69 (ret.); Jerry Scarano, Jr. JD’69;
Winnie Rubino; and Richard Rubino JD’69
3
4
3.
James Sokolove JD’69, Paul Kaufman
JD’69; Betty Rappaport; and Hon.
Carmine M. Bravo JD’69 (ret.)
4.
Joan Farcus JD’69 and David Gianetti
5.
Richard Rubino JD’69; Ted Schwartz
JD’69; and James Sokolove JD’69
6.
5
6
7.
Anthony DeLuca JD’69; Alan Kraut JD’69; J.
David Damico JD’69; Jerry Scarano, Jr. JD’69;
Dean Andrew Perlman; Theodore Schwartz
JD’69; Paul Kaufman JD’69; and Hon. Carmine
M. Bravo JD’69 (ret.)
7
Henry Kara BSBA’66, JD’69, Dean’s
Cabinet; Lew Sassoon JD’69, Dean’s
Cabinet; and Amy Sassoon
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HALF-CENTURY
CLUB LUNCHEON
FRIDAY, MAY 31, 2019
Marriott Long Wharf Hotel
On May 31, alumni from the class of 1969 returned to
Suffolk to celebrate their 50th reunion.
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At this annual luncheon, Suffolk inducts the 50th
reunion class into the Half-Century Club and invites
alumni from past 50th reunion classes to attend.
Save the date for the 2020 Half-Century Club
Luncheon on Friday, May 29, 2020, when we will
celebrate the Class of 1970. For more information,
contact Corian Branyan in the Office of Advancement
at 617-573-8456. Photographs by John Gillooly
Top row, left to right: Robert Billage MA’69; James O’Donnell
BA’66, JD’69; Teresa Gillis BA’69; Bob Rook JD’69; John Webster
JD’69; Jeffrey Mark Pearlman BA’69; Richard Duchesneau
BSBA’69; Jerry Scarano, Jr. JD’69; Richard Krezel JD’69; Andrew
Bram JD’69; and Henry Kara BSBA’66, JD’69, Dean’s Cabinet
Middle row, left to right: Lew Sassoon JD’69, Dean’s Cabinet;
Anthony DeLuca JD’69; Hon. Carmine M. Bravo JD’69 (ret.);
Robert Nocera JD’69; J. David Damico JD’69; Roger Phillips
JD’69; Gregory Britz JD’69; Edward McTighe JD’69; John
Bourgeois, Sr. JD’69; Mario Zangari JD’69; Theodore Schwartz
JD’69; and Paul Kaufman JD’69
Bottom row, left to right: Thomas Woodbury BA’69, MAE’72; John
Wansea BSJ’69; Michael Houghton BSJ’69; Ruth Monahan BA’69;
Marsha Feffer BA’68; Jack Dennis BSBA’69; David Flynn BSBA’69;
Thomas Miley BSBA’69, MAE’71; Linwood Nelson BSBA’69; Mary
Cahalane BS’69, MED’74; and Joseph Ruggio MBA’69
�ALUMNI
EVENTS
COMMENCEMENT
EVE DINNER
SATURDAY, MAY 18, 2019
1
The Seaport Hotel, Boston
Alumni and guests gathered on May 18, 2019, at the Seaport
Hotel on the evening before commencement to celebrate
the accomplishments of our 2019 graduates, our esteemed
honorary degree recipients, and the generosity of our alumni
and friends in the Summa Society. Photographs by John Gillooly
2
1.
Alexander Bove, Jr. JD’67, Dean’s Cabinet and Catherine Bove
2.
Eddie Jenkins, Jr. JD’78 and Tamela Bailey JD’04, Alumni
Association Board Member
3.
3
4
SUFFOLK CONNECT
ALUMNI-STUDENT
NETWORKING RECEPTION
Konstantinos (Kosta) Ligris JD’01, Trustee and Dean’s Cabinet;
Robert Lamb, Jr., Chair, Board of Trustees; and Nik Ligris JD’11
5
6
4.
6.
Gary Prado JD’16; Shelby
Devanney; and Sarah Marshall
TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 2019
James McKenzie JD’75;
Cade Nauman; Erica Mattison
MPA’08, JD’13; and Desi Powell
Ropes & Gray LLP Boston
,
5.
Over 270 alumni and students attended the
annual alumni and student networking reception
held at Ropes & Gray LLP. A special thank you
to alumnus Timothy McCrystal JD’89, Dean’s
Cabinet, for hosting the reception.
Photographs by Michael J. Clarke
Paige Stopperich; Jessen Foster;
Sammy Nabulsi JD’14, Alumni
Association Board Member; and
Brianna Whitney JD’13
Timothy McCrystal JD’89,
Dean’s Cabinet; Dean Andrew
Perlman; Gunjan Sali; and
Hillary Peterson JD’09, Assistant
Director of Professional and
Career Development
7
7.
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1
4
5
2
6
SUFFOLK LAW REUNION
DINNER AND ALUMNI
AWARDS CEREMONY
SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 2019
Sargent Hall
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The annual Suffolk Law Reunion Dinner and
Alumni Awards Ceremony was held in Sargent
Hall on Saturday, June 1, 2019. This special
dinner honored alumni celebrating a reunion year
and also recognized four alumni for outstanding
achievements, service, and philanthropy:
Massachusetts House Speaker Robert A.
DeLeo JD’76, HLLD’09, Outstanding Alumni
Achievement Award; Jennifer L. Parent JD’95,
Outstanding Alumni Service Award; Kwabena
Kyei-Aboagye, Jr. JD’09, Outstanding Graduate
of the Last Decade; and Gerard F. Doherty JD’60,
Edward Bray JD’58 Legacy Award. Photographs
by John Gillooly
7
3
1.
4.
Rep. Josh Cutler JD’00;
Lynn Sullivan; Hon. Amy
Nechtem JD’85, Trustee;
Thomas Sullivan JD’94,
Dean’s Cabinet and Alumni
Association Board Member;
and Robert Rio JD’94
Carla Perugini-Erickson
JD’94 and Teri Scibelli JD’94
2.
6.
Patricia Tarabelsi JD’08;
Victoria Burdman JD’06;
Tamela Bailey JD’04, Alumni
Association Board Member;
and Tiziana Polizio JD’97
Johanna Homan; Jonathan
Schwartz JD’11, Alumni
Association Board Member;
Brian Neely; and Anna
Lucey JD’06
3.
7.
President Marisa J. Kelly;
Gerard Doherty JD’60;
Massachusetts House
Speaker Robert A. DeLeo
JD’76, HLLD’09; Jennifer
L. Parent JD’95; Kwabena
Kyei-Aboagye, Jr. JD’09;
and Dean Andrew Perlman
Massachusetts House
Speaker Robert A. DeLeo
JD’76, HLLD’09; Mary
Doherty; and Tim Wilkerson
JD’03, Alumni Association
Board Member
5.
Hon. Regina Quinlan
Doherty JD’73, HLLD’05 and
Gerard Doherty JD’60
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U.S. SUPREME COURT BAR
ADMISSION PROGRAM
MARCH 3-4, 2019
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Welcome Reception, Washington, DC
Forty Suffolk University Law School alumni
traveled to Washington, D.C. to be sworn in to
the Bar of the United States Supreme Court.
The two-day program began on March 3 with
a welcome reception at the Hyatt Regency
Washington. On Monday, March 4, the alumni,
along with Dean Perlman, appeared before the
justices of the U.S. Supreme Court during the
court’s Monday morning session. Professor
Emerita Karen Blum JD’74 presented the
motion to admit the Suffolk Law alumni to
the Supreme Court Bar. The group received
a surprise visit from both Chief Justice John
Roberts and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
during the reception. Photographs by Michael
Carpenter
1.
Suffolk University Law School’s newly admitted
members of the U.S. Supreme Court Bar and
D.C. area alumni.
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The Suffolk Law New Hampshire Alumni
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Inn for its annual meeting and dinner.
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Suffolk University
Law School
New Hampshire
Alumni Network
3.
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JD’95, president
of the NH Alumni
Network
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SUFFOLK
UNIVERSITY
MAGAZINE
RAMS RESPOND TO THE
PANDEMIC
See what happens when an
entire university steps up
LIFE-CHANGING GIFTS
Samia and Miller scholars excel
THE RISE OF
RAM NATION
Investment in Athletics yields big wins
DEMOCRACY AFTER
CORONAVIRUS
How COVID-19 is challenging our political norms
TOM O’BRIEN
Boston developer builds community first
Fall 2020
Suffolk.edu
�In this Issue
ON THE
COVER
SUFFOLK
UNIVERSITY
MAGAZINE
RAMS RESPOND TO THE
PANDEMIC
Jeanette
LIFE-CHANGING GIFTS
Marasi, Class
THE RISE OF
RAM NATION
of 2021, is an
DEMOCRACY AFTER
Information
CORONAVIRUS
TOM O’BRIEN
Systems and
Operations
Management
major. Engaging in her Suffolk
experience, she serves as a RAM
Supporter, 2020 Orientation
Leader, and the Vice President
of Programming for the Program
Council, of which she says:
“We have started our first
event this year, Build-a-Ram,
which has been great so far in
providing first-year students with
something to do on campus as
well as lift up the Suffolk spirit.”
See what happens when an
entire university steps up
Samia and Miller Scholars excel
Investment in Athletics yields big wins
How COVID-19 is challenging our political norms
Boston developer builds community first
Fall 2020
Suffolk.edu
32
POLITICS IN
A PANDEMIC
Suffolk experts reflect
on the crisis’ impact and
what the future holds for
our political process
40
THE BRIDGE BUILDER
Developer Tom O’Brien is changing the
face of Boston with a rare compassion
and a community-minded approach
�Fall 2020
24
2 Welcome
SAMIA
SCHOLARS
THE COMMON
GOOD
The life-changing gifts
of Samia and Miller
Scholarships
CREATING
ACCESS
20 Mapping inequality:
Student researcher
collaborates with
faculty to map
risk factors for
incarceration
4 A look at how Suffolk
responds to the
pandemic
6 E. Macey Russell
leads a campaign for
teaching Black history
nationally
46
7 Suffolk Law housing
THE WORLD IS
THEIR GALLERY
Students, faculty, and
alumni take their art into
the public realm
22 Shawn Newton
23 Justice code: App
gives defendants
access to community
resources
study sparks calls for
change
SUFFOLK
IMPACT
AROUND
THE HORN
8 Happenings and Ram
pride from around the
University
LAUNCH POINT
SUFFOLK
14 Dedicated alumnus
27 Testing testing,
COVID-19: Alumnus
Thomas O’Connor joins
Broad Institute in wake
of pandemic
28 Conscious couture:
Alumna Lauren Nouchi
takes risks to build
fashion brand
creates a tour of the
banking and wealth
management industry
50
16 New Sawyer Business
THE RISE OF
RAM NATION
An ongoing investment
in athletics results in
big wins for studentathletes
Suffolk’s newest
residence hall
Photographs clockwise from top left:
REUTERS / Joshua Roberts - stock.adobe.
com, Michael J. Clarke (2), Faith Ninivaggi
18 Imagination at work:
SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY
30 Breaking news: Alumna
Breana Pitts leads the
anchor desk in a critical
time
School Dean Amy
Zeng brings a passion
for experience-based
learning.
17 One Court Street:
First-year creativity
courses give students a
competitive edge
sows seeds of change
WELL WISHES
55 Celebrating
Dean Bill O’Neill
56 Alumni send graduated
Class of 2020 warm
wishes and greetings
MAGAZINE
PRESIDENT—Marisa Kelly
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF—Greg Gatlin
MANAGING EDITOR—Katy Ibsen
DESIGN—Jenni Leiste
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS—Kara Baskin, Jennifer Becker, Michael Fisch,
Alyssa Giacobbe, Andrea Grant, Ben Hall, Nancy Kelleher, Kimberly Stern,
Nat Panek
COPY EDITORS— Karen DeCilio, Susie Fagan, Nancy Kelleher
CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS—Michael J. Clarke, Faith Ninivaggi
Suffolk University Magazine is published once a year by
Suffolk University. The magazine is printed by Lane Press
in Burlington, VT. We welcome readers’ comments.
Contact us at publicaffairs@suffolk.edu, or at Editor,
Suffolk University Office of Public Affairs, 73 Tremont St.,
Boston, MA 02108-2770. © 2020 by Suffolk University. All
publication rights reserved.
�Welcome
Fall 2020
letter
from
the
president
One of the things I love most about my job is
talking with our alumni across the nation and
around the globe. It’s surprising how many of those
wonderful conversations end in what has become a
familiar refrain: We miss Suffolk’s magazine.
I’ve missed it too. The magazine went on an
extended hiatus several years ago, and I have felt we
needed to bring it back. It helps to better connect us
to one another and to share stories of our collective
positive impact on the world. Somehow, that seems
more important now than ever before.
Suffolk University is a powerful force for good.
That has been true since our founding, and it
continues today. At no time has that fundamental
truth been more essential than at this moment in
our nation’s history. In the face of a coronavirus
pandemic that has caused untold human suffering
and tragedy, our students, faculty, staff, and alumni
are addressing the implications of the pandemic
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directly. Masks on, socially distanced, at
times in person, and often virtually, they are
leaning in and stepping up to serve others
and the broader community.
The pages of the new Suffolk University
Magazine are filled with stories of Suffolk
Rams rising to the challenge of serving the
public good. Faculty have used the pandemic
as a teachable moment and inspired
students to reflect on their own experience
and that of others. Students responded
by creating innovative course projects
and service-learning opportunities. They
developed new ways to tutor, mentor, and
read with young children in neighborhood
schools, delivered groceries and essential
items to families in need, and created online
solutions for people who could no longer
access critical legal services.
We also are grappling with a simultaneous
crisis exacerbated by the pandemic—the
awful and relentless plague of racial injustice
and inequity in this country. Like the nation,
this University has work to do to combat
racism and to foster equity and create a more
just environment for members of our Black
community. This transformative moment
requires all of us to act, and our community is
doing just that. Suffolk students are leading
the conversation within this University, and
beyond, to raise awareness of injustices and
to create meaningful change.
Working alongside faculty members,
Suffolk junior Brianna Franklin is
researching inequities in Connecticut
through the use of incarceration data and
computer mapping systems. Associate Dean
of Students Shawn Newton is leading a task
force to improve racial equity in his own
community of Salem, Massachusetts. Law
School alumna Nicole Siino has developed
an app to help juvenile defendants gain
access to life-altering community-based
resources, and alumnus and Trustee
Macey Russell is advocating for a national
movement to make Black history a part of
the K-12 curriculum.
If there is one common theme that runs
through the pages of this magazine, it is the
relentless desire among Suffolk students,
employees, and alumni to serve their
communities. We are inspired by the story
of real estate developer Tom O’Brien, who
believes building community bridges is
more important than building structures.
And through a journey into the world of
politics in the time of a pandemic, we find
hope for what could emerge in the future.
It is my pleasure to present to you the new
and revived Suffolk University Magazine.
President
�The
Common
Good
Pandemic
Pivot
Housing the homeless in
Miller Hall was one of many
ways Suffolk responded to
the public health crisis
Stepping Up
Photographs: Michael J. Clarke
A
fter Boston’s first COVID-19 case surfaced among
the city’s homeless population in March, Mayor
Martin J. Walsh announced that the city had begun
converting privately owned buildings into shelters,
including Suffolk University’s Nathan R. Miller Hall
(pictured here).
Walsh had reached out to Suffolk, and University
President Marisa Kelly readily agreed to make the
residence hall’s 172 rooms available to the city to
house members of the homeless population. “Boston
is our home,” Kelly said at the time. “We stand ready
to help in any way.”
It was a compassionate step in an uncertain time,
speaking volumes about the University’s values.
It also was one of just many examples, as revealed
on the following pages, of Suffolk stepping up to serve
its communities in support of the common good.
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�The Common Good
Fall 2020
Pandemic Pivot
“Suffolk students were
extremely resilient in
their efforts to benefit
so many needy people
in our community.
I’m so proud to be
an alumna of this
amazing school.”
—Amanda Ricko, BS ’19. Ricko is the assistant executive
director of CEEDS4Change, a nonprofit that creates
partnerships to reduce food insecurities in underserved
communities. She and her family made 400 masks for
the homeless in response to the pandemic.
Students Serving
Beyond Suffolk
W
hen classes moved online in the spring, students found creative ways to help
those in need through remote service-learning:
In partnership with nonprofit CEEDS4Change, Suffolk students created the
Head, Health, and Heart initiative to provide care packages of food, books, and
mental health information to 200 families from four Boston public schools.
Students in Suffolk’s Cancer Care class continued to support families at
Christopher’s Haven, an organization that provides temporary homes for
families while their children receive cancer care at Boston hospitals, through
fundraising, grocery runs, and morale-boosting deliveries of handmade cards
and balloons.
Davis Altimonte, Class of 2022, read and uploaded short stories to the 826
Boston website, where students he had tutored in person could hear his voice as
they read along with him.
Julia Leone, BA ’20, developed ongoing lesson plans for the Future Leaders
after-school program at the Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House in Cambridge.
Through the Girls Who Code program, Anas Sabir, Class of 2022, taught students
at Umana Academy how to program a Q&A computer game.
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Global Call
to Creatives
S
purred by the United Nations “Global Call to Creatives”
campaign seeking translation of public health
messages for all people, graphic design students enrolled
in the Advanced Computer Applications course created
animations that promoted personal hygiene, physical
distancing, symptoms, and myth-busting. Their theme:
Spread the word not the virus.
�The Common Good
Fall 2020
Pandemic Pivot
Calm in the Time of
Court
Coronavirus
P
sychology Professors David Langer, who helps children manage anxiety,
and Susan Orsillo, an expert in mindfulness, shared practical tips for
self- and family care.
HELPING
KIDS COPE
MINDFUL OF
THE MOMENT
“Two key things that have enormous
benefits for mental and physical health
and well-being are physical activity
and spending time outside. … These
are behaviors parents can model and
encourage that will benefit everyone. In
addition to physical activity and outside
time, take time to do enjoyable things like
playing games and pursuing hobbies.”
“People assume that we practice mindfulness
to draw our attention away from something
unpleasant—like worry. But the spirit of
mindfulness involves drawing your attention
toward something truly meaningful and
precious—the present moment. Then we fully
experience whatever it is: the scent of our
favorite candle, the taste of a delicious food, or
the sensation of our pet’s fur.”
—David Langer
—Susan Orsillo
Closures
S
tudents in Suffolk Law’s 12 legal
clinics continued their efforts to
close the ”justice gap” during the period
when Massachusetts courts were closed for
all but emergency cases. Their efforts ranged from
virtual lawyering via mobile phone, email, and video
to working on cutting-edge digital court forms to help
those representing themselves access the justice system.
Under state law, supervised student attorneys are
permitted to represent clients who otherwise would
not be able to afford a lawyer. Coronavirus-related
challenges, from unemployment to health crises, make
their work that much more critical.
During the court closures, to help avoid a stalled
justice system, judges asked family law practitioners
to work toward settling cases when that made sense.
Toward that end, students negotiated with opposing
counsel on issues like child custody, parenting time, and
child support. “In the U.S., a majority of people face their
civil legal emergencies without a lawyer,” says Suffolk
Law Dean Andrew Perlman. “The need for solutions to
help address the justice gap, including virtual lawyering
and simple digital court forms is acute.”
Studies in
Photographs clockwise from left: Courtesy of Amanda Ricko, Michael J. Clarke (3),
Courtesy of Colleen Doonan
Empathy
A
s faculty across the University adapted to the challenges of
teaching amid the coronavirus, many shifted their syllabi to
help students unpack the pandemic from their virtual classrooms.
Professor Amy Monticello was teaching a course called Narrative
and Medicine when the pandemic hit. Her students happened to be
reading On Immunity, Eula Biss’ reflection on vaccinating children.
Suddenly students found new and immediate significance. They
began capturing their own pandemic experiences through writing.
“We turn to books, historical studies, philosophical frameworks,
and artistic expressions to locate our own and others’ experiences
and find insights that help us make sense of what’s happening,”
Monticello says.
Professor Wes Savick witnessed a new empathy emerge as theater
students shared their interpretation of the moment. He inspired
students to write about their own experiences amid the pandemic,
telling them: “It is up to you, the playwrights, to chronicle the feelings,
the hopes, the spirit, the poetry.” Theatre students also had one-onone digital coaching and mentoring sessions, including with awardwinning actor and director Maurice Parent, and witnessed Stephanie
Coyle, BA ’20, direct current students in Harold Pinter’s play The Lover
via Zoom.
Junayed Islam,
Class of 2021,
Entrepreneurship
major
Read more online at
Suffolk.edu.
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�The Common Good
Fall 2020
Rewriting History
The Case for Teaching
Black History
Nationally
Alumnus aims to create understanding
of how America arrived at the Black
Lives Matter moment
Story by Nancy Kelleher
I
t’s time to bring Black history into the mainstream of American education,
says Suffolk University Trustee E. Macey Russell, who is advocating for a
national movement that would transform a tame February curriculum
addendum to a strong examination of the Black experience in America since 1619.
History lessons that address America’s fraught relationship with race tend to
focus on slavery in the context of the Civil War and the civil rights movement.
But American schools neglect to address signal events such as the postReconstruction massacres of Black citizens in Tulsa. Students don’t hear about
the African American lives lost in 1927 when Mississippi River levees were
dynamited to spare New Orleans from flooding, spurring the Great Migration.
Nor do the history books address how discrimination in housing, employment,
and education led to a society where an average white family’s net worth is nearly
10 times that of a Black family.
Russell, JD ’83, seeks federal legislation—the George Floyd Education Act—
establishing a commission to determine an appropriate K through 12 Black history
curriculum. Schools would make courses on racism and Black history part of the
core curriculum, and colleges and universities would follow suit.
In an era when the call has gone out to “do something,” Russell invites Suffolk
alumni to join him in advocating for Black history education.
A need for context
Following the 2020 police killings of George Floyd and others, protesters across
the nation are standing up for the rights of Black Americans. Yet many people don’t
understand how America came to this juncture, says Russell.
The myth of a post-racial society ushered in with the election of President
Barack Obama has died, and “the kids out marching are confounded about what’s
happened,” says Russell.
Because young Black and Brown students are not taught their history, they
often feel isolated in U.S. society, according to Russell.
“Learning this history helps Black Americans understand their heritage and
how they are connected to this country,” he says. “We have been here for 400
years, and there is something wrong when folks who arrived 120 years ago feel
more connected than Black Americans. Rarely do we stop and ask: Why is there
a Negro National Anthem in this country, and why was the civil rights movement
necessary?”
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Empathy based on facts
Russell, a partner at Choate Hall & Stewart LLP, is deeply
involved with encouraging diversity in the legal profession.
“I’ve learned from these experiences that you have to find
trigger points that generate empathy in people, and that usually
has to come from a baseline of facts and what can reasonably be
inferred from those facts,” he says.
“Until people begin to understand our history, it may be hard
for them to understand why African Americans are where they
are today. It’s not because we all checked a box before we were
born that said: I want to be poor. I want to have the worst possible
public education. I want to be fearful of police, and I want to
be discriminated against in housing and education. Nobody
checks those boxes. Yet there’s always been an undercurrent
that we don’t work hard enough.”
Russell’s commitment to Black history education stems in
part from his learning about the historical mistreatment of
indigenous people and others.
“There are a lot of things that we don’t understand partly
because of a lack of exposure,” says Russell, citing Germany’s
requirement that high school students study Nazism and the
Holocaust. “We should follow Germany’s lead as a way to heal.”
�The Common Good
Fall 2020
Housing Discrimination
SUFFOLK LAW GOES UNDERCOVER
TO UNVEIL HOUSING DISCRIMINATION
Study sparks calls for change as it reveals
bias against Black and low-income renters
Story by Michael Fisch
Suffolk
University
Trustee E.
Macey Russell
Photographs: Michael J. Clarke (2)
Says Russell: “If learning
about Black history and racism
in the U.S. becomes part of our
daily dialogue in the schools,
that will trickle into the minds
of parents, into neighborhoods,
and into communities. And
I think that would be a good
thing. We owe it to our kids and
grandkids, so they can grow up
in a very different America.”
Read more about the
proposed George
Floyd Education Act at
www.wgbh.org/news/
commentary/2020/06/24/
it-s-time-to-teach-blackhistory-to-all-students.
A
fter the unsettling results of a Suffolk
Law
study
showed
widespread
discrimination among Greater Boston
real estate agents and landlords toward
prospective tenants who were Black or used
federal housing vouchers, the impact has
been both sizable and swift.
The study, led by Suffolk Law’s Housing
Discrimination Testing Program (HDTP),
found that white people posing as
prospective tenants were shown roughly
twice as many apartments as Black people
and were offered more incentives to rent.
Agents often cut off communication with
renters using “race-associated” names like
Jermaine and Ebony as opposed to renters
with names like Brad and Anne.
The testing, conducted from August 2018
to July 2019, also showed that people using
federal Section 8 vouchers, regardless of
race, faced huge hurdles—having to contact
nine rental agents before getting the
opportunity to tour one apartment.
The Suffolk Law study, co-led by the
Analysis Group and funded by the Boston
Foundation, was released July 1. A week
later, a group of Boston city councilors came
together to decry the racism it uncovered
and, according to the Boston Globe,
proposed a new “secret shopper program,”
similar to Suffolk’s research, to assess the
treatment of Black people and voucher
holders seeking apartment rentals. Hearings
on their proposal are expected in the fall.
A few days after the study was released,
Banker & Tradesman, an influential realty
trade publication, laid out the study’s key
findings and published an editorial, “Racism
in Real Estate Cannot Stand.” The editorial
argued that, given the study’s rigorous
design, “no serious person” could argue that
the findings were biased.
The
publication
called
on
the
Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office
to convene a task force of industry
representatives,
housing
advocates,
legislators, regulators, and fair housing
experts to create a plan to address housing
discrimination by Labor Day.
Results of the study were picked up
by media outlets across the region and
beyond. On NBC 10 Boston, City Councilor
Matt O’Malley referenced the study,
saying “housing discrimination is real” and
“abhorrent.” He called on city leaders to
partner with local housing advocates and
universities to set up additional testing and
to report back any unfair treatment.
Seventy-three Suffolk students served
among the 200 testers posing as interested
renters. They contacted the advertisers of
50 randomly selected rental properties in
nine cities and 11 Boston neighborhoods and
meticulously recorded their experiences in
reports after the interactions.
“We expected the numbers to be high
based on what we see in our work every day,
but this is much more pervasive evidence of
discrimination than any of us thought we
would find,” said Jamie Langowski, assistant
director of the HDTP.
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�Around
the Horn
Fall 2020
DEDICATED TO
SERVICE AND
LEARNING
Story by Kara Baskin
S
uffolk’s commitment to community
and service was recognized with the
Carnegie Community Engagement
Reclassification, a distinction that honors
noteworthy cocurricular
involvement
and builds upon the University’s initial
classification honor in 2010.
“Creating opportunity has been
ingrained in the Suffolk story right
from the start,” says Suffolk University
President Marisa Kelly, a champion of
community engagement. “We strive to
create experiences that benefit students
and communities alike. This spirit of
service is something our graduates carry
with them throughout their lives.”
Suffolk is one of 75 higher education
institutions to receive the reclassification
designation. Faculty, staff, students, and
a community partner collaborated on the
yearlong reapplication process to evaluate
the many ways the University impacts
society and learning.
“The classification reinforces our
identity as an institution dedicated to the
common good,” says Adam Westbrook,
director of Suffolk’s Center for Community
Engagement.
Teaching social skills to
schoolchildren is among
Suffolk’s annual Service
Day activities.
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�Around the Horn
Fall 2020
CRISPR in Undergrad Labs
A Sequence of
Fortunate Events
Students unlock cutting-edge
CRISPR gene-editing lab curriculum
Story by Andrea Grant
Photographs clockwise from left: Michael J. Clarke (2)
A
fter a disappointing day in the
lab, roommates Thomas Tran
and Domenic Abbondanza sank
into their couch and switched on the
TV. They used its big screen to scan for
new approaches to try in the molecular
genetics project consuming all their
waking hours.
Tran, BS ’18, and Abbondanza, BS
’19, were trying to help their biology
professors Eric De Waal and Celeste
Peterson distill the essence of the
groundbreaking CRISPR-Cas9 genomeediting technique into a laboratory
curriculum simple enough for students
to complete in a single semester.
CRISPR-Cas9 is a technique that
allows scientists to edit a cell’s DNA at
precise locations by cutting the DNA and
modifying it through inserting, deleting,
or repairing its sequence. Researchers are
just starting to explore the procedure’s
potential therapeutic applications for
genetic disorders and conditions like
cancer and Alzheimer’s disease, for which
cures remain elusive.
“As is the nature of
research, failures
were frequent.”
–Domenic Abbondanza, BS ’19
Building on a seminal paper from
Harvard geneticist George Church, the
pair experimented with new organisms
and methods in trying to find the
right sequence for the undergraduate
lab setting. “As is the nature of
research, failures were frequent,” says
Abbondanza.
They had been working on the
project for over a year, even after Tran
graduated. Now they were racing against the clock,
trying to finish before Abbondanza completed the
biology program and Tran headed off to graduate
school.
Just one week before the 2019 commencement
ceremony, an email from De Waal came with the subject
line: “Early graduation present for you.” It confirmed
that all of the CRISPR experiments were working.
A few months later their work was published in
the journal Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education
in a Peterson-De Waal article outlining how to create
a laboratory curriculum following their students’
method for using CRISPR-Cas9 with a simple
model organism. That fall students filled Peterson’s
Molecular Genetics course, breaking into pairs to get
hands-on experience editing genes.
Giving undergraduates early access to “the next
wave” of cutting-edge science like CRISPR will put
them ahead of the curve and help them in their
scientific careers, says Peterson.
Her recent alumni are living proof. Gaining
experience in the lab and publishing in a peer-reviewed
journal helped Tran earn a spot in the UMass-Amherst
molecular and cellular biology PhD program, while
Abbondanza landed his “dream job” as a researcher at
the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. This spring
Abbondanza and his colleagues shifted their focus to
aid in the worldwide study of the coronavirus. Using
a technique called spatial transcriptomics on tissue
samples from patients with COVID-19, they hope to learn
more about how the virus behaves and impacts different
cells in the human body.
“We’re in uncharted territory here, and we have to do
on-the-fly troubleshooting. My science training at Suffolk
prepared me to be able to adapt,” says Abbondanza. “I
definitely didn’t think my first year out of undergrad
would look like this, but Suffolk does a great job of
preparing students for real-life situations.”
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�Around the Horn
Fall 2020
Uniquely Suffolk
FEEDING
A START-UP
Story by Kara Baskin
B
Our
Bodies,
Ourselves
Today
Story by Kara Baskin
I
n 1970, a group of Bostonarea
women
self-published
“Women and Their Bodies,”
a groundbreaking booklet that
addressed previously verboten topics,
from reproductive health to sexuality.
Soon known as Our Bodies, Ourselves, the
book was a touchstone for generations
of women. It was in print through 2011
and continues to live online today.
Thanks to Suffolk’s Center for
Women’s Health & Human Rights,
the pivotal text will come alive
again as Our Bodies, Ourselves Today,
updated online for modern readers at
ourbodiesourselvestoday.org.
“There are so many reasons to get
excited about this online platform.
Women are still in dire need of
information of the kind that Our
Bodies, Ourselves provides—evidenceand reality-based information that
treats women as whole beings,” says
10
center director Amy Agigian, who
oversees the initiative.
The site initially will spotlight
key topics including contraception,
abortion, mental health, and heart
health.
Suffolk has deep connections with
Our Bodies, Ourselves cofounder Paula
Doress-Worters, a Class of 1962 Suffolk
alumna, and cofounder and Board
Chair Judy Norsigian, who taught a
Suffolk course called Women’s Health
Advocacy for several years.
The online information—articles,
videos, podcasts, first-person stories,
and more—will be curated and vetted
by expert panels. Panelists will include
specialists ranging from policymakers
to physicians to everyday women from
all walks of life.
“This is extremely ambitious; we want
to be the go-to for all sorts of women’s
health issues,” Agigian says.
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udding entrepreneurs in the Sawyer Business
School’s Crowdfunding the Venture class
learn creative fundraising firsthand, discovering
innovative ways to generate buzz—sometimes
literally—for their ideas.
Of the more than 25 business ventures
launched in the course via Kickstarter or
Indiegogo, one success story is GrubTerra, where
founder Michael Servais, Class of 2021, makes
bugs seem appealing.
His start-up repurposes restaurant waste into
chicken feed using black soldier fly grubs. The
insects feast, grow, and self-harvest before being
washed, killed, and dehydrated into a proteinpacked poultry food product. Servais estimates
a pound of dried grub is equivalent to 20 pounds
of food waste.
Students in the course learn how to create
impactful videos that build affinity with potential
investors. In his fundraising video, Servais
endearingly pleaded with potential funders to
help him move up and out of his Mission Hill
basement greenhouse—all while sporting a yellow
chicken suit. He met his $10,000 funding goal.
“It’s the jockey, not the horse. You need a
founder like Servais who’s willing to dive in
and work,” says Chaim Letwin, professor of
management and entrepreneurship at Suffolk.
“Crowdfunding is hard. You need credibility to
back your idea, influencers to support it, friends
and family to get behind it. The class was so
helpful,” Servais says.
�Around the Horn
Professional Development
Ram
Pride
“One of my biggest
jobs is to teach my
players that they can
be fierce competitors
while also showing
respect for
their opponents,
coaches, officials,
and fans.”
—Jeff Juron, Men’s Basketball Head
Coach, who alongside his team,
received the 2019-20 Sam Schoenfeld
Sportsmanship Award from the Collegiate
Basketball Officials Association.
For the third
year
in a row Suffolk
Photographs clockwise from top left: Adobe, Michael J. Clarke
University physics
students received the
Society of Physics
Students Chapter Research Award for
their work studying neutron shielding
at Massachusetts General Hospital.
The award is a $2,000 cash prize to
further their research.
Suffolk is recognized as a 20202021 Military Friendly School, with
systems in place to support student
veterans financially, emotionally, and
academically.
A Leader in Career
Success
College-to-career innovator Dave Merry
takes the helm at Suffolk’s Center for Career
Education and Professional Development
Story by Magazine Staff
D
ave Merry wants all Suffolk
students and graduates to have
the tools and confidence to control
their own lifelong career trajectories.
“People can go through careers passively,”
says Merry, an innovator in career education
who recently joined the University to
lead its reimagined and expanded career
development efforts. “I want students to
know that they have the support, resources,
and skills that they need to make the next
steps in their career paths and to be in
control of that journey.”
That is true for Suffolk alumni as well.
Building a career today is a lifelong process
that requires adaptability and flexibility as
well as continuous reinvestment in skills.
Alumni, Merry says, may need training
in a certain technology or opportunities
to improve public speaking, leadership
techniques, or other skills. Suffolk’s Center
for Career Education and Professional
Development will increasingly focus on
offering opportunities for certificates,
credentials, badges, and skills development.
“When our current students are alumni, we
want them to come back,” Merry says. “We
want them to come upskill with us as well.”
Merry joined Suffolk in July as associate
provost and executive director of the Center
for Career Education and Professional
Development. He brings experience on the
cutting edge of the college-to-career arena
and a vision that aligns with the career and
experiential learning goals set out in the
Suffolk 2025 strategic plan, including an
objective to become a national leader in
career education.
The University’s emphasis on integrating
career education throughout the student
experience is what drew Merry to Suffolk.
He sees Suffolk as becoming an institution
that others will look to for best practices in
building career readiness into every aspect
of a university education, from the classroom
to leadership involvement, service,
internships, and more.
Merry’s past experience includes
serving as founding director of cooperative
education for Northeastern’s College of
Science and a co-op education faculty
member. At Suffolk, Merry sees a faculty
and staff with remarkable enthusiasm for
making every experience meaningful and
a University community that is unified in
promoting student success.
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�Around the Horn
Black Studies
A Milestone for
Black Studies
at Suffolk
25 years of fostering
understanding among all students
Story by Andrea Grant
W
hen Suffolk’s Black Alumni
Network gathered graduates,
students, faculty, and friends
last fall for the annual Celebration of Black
Excellence dinner, the members also
commemorated a special milestone in the
University’s history: the 25th anniversary
of the Black Studies program.
“The field focuses on the perspectives
and ways of knowing of Black
people—thinking, acting, creating,
building, and problem solving. We
wanted to encourage students from
any background to gain a fuller
understanding of themselves and the
world around them,” says founder and
program director Professor Robert
Bellinger.
The program has enriched academic
and cultural life on campus through
a diverse array of courses and
programming, bringing renowned
poets, storytellers, musicians, writers,
educators, and performers to share their
viewpoints and talents. Partnerships with
historical sites—including a research and
internship collaboration into the history
of enslaved people at the Middleton Place
plantation in South Carolina—have given
students hands-on opportunities to
apply Black Studies perspectives to the
telling of American stories.
And to inspire the next generation,
Bellinger has welcomed Boston Public
Schools students into the classroom
to earn college credit as part of the
S A M FA I S A L , J D ’ 2 0 ,
is named a
2020 Law
School Student
of the Year
by National Jurist magazine for his service
and support for underrepresented students.
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University’s dual-enrollment program.
“One of the ideas that is central to
Black Studies is that of the ‘activist
scholar,’ which is based on the idea
that knowledge is for the sake of your
community,” says Bellinger. “It’s not
just learning for the sake of learning, it’s
learning so you can use that knowledge
to shape the communities that you’re a
part of locally, nationally, and globally.”
The Suffolk University Black Alumni
Network was launched in 2018 thanks
to the vision of students and alumni,
including double Ram and trustee Ernst
Guerrier, BS ’91, JD ’94. The network
celebrates and serves current and future
Black alumni through events, mentoring,
philanthropy, and volunteerism.
Professor
Robert
Bellinger,
center,
with other
attendees
of the 2019
Celebration
of Black
Excellence
dinner, which
honored
the 25th
anniversary of
Black Studies
at Suffolk.
“I am so pleased to help
deserving students follow
their dreams … Their stories
overwhelmed me.”
—Ed McDonnell, BSBA ’59, HDCS, ’84, whose gifts over 23 years have provided
students the opportunity to travel and understand the businesses and cultures of
other countries, preparing students to be global citizens.
�Around the Horn
Fall 2020
Madrid
Suffolk Polling
earns an
A
One of a handful of
polling centers to get that
grade from Nate Silver’s
FiveThirtyEight news blog,
acknowledging accuracy
and methodology for
polling.
Out of
This World
Madrid professors adapt a coveted
astronomy course to distance learning
Story by Kimberly Winter Stern
Photographs clockwise from top left: Fena Fenelon; NASA/SOFIA/E. Lopez-Rodriguez; NASA/Spitzer/J.
Moustakas et al., Image processing by AliAbbasiPov; courtesy of Silvia Salazar and Hristo Stoev (2)
T
Suffolk Law School is
recognized with the
Outstanding Law School
Diversity Outreach Award
by the Annual National
Black Pre-Law Conference
& Law Fair for the
increasing diversity of the
school’s student body.
90%
of Suffolk student-athletes
achieve a spot on the
athletics director’s spring
2020 Honor Roll, with
232 Rams achieving a
3.0 or higher grade-point
average.
he problem may have seemed
like the stuff of a feverish science
fiction writer’s imagination: Star
Trek meets Contagion, but two Suffolk
Madrid professors rose to the challenge.
To accommodate the constraints of a
global pandemic, Professors Maria Cruz
Gálvez and Hristo Stoev virtually recreated an astronomy learning adventure
that usually takes place at Mount Teide in
the Canary Islands, where an observatory
is perched atop the world’s third-tallest
volcanic structure.
Embracing the challenge to
reinvent the sought-after fournight lab that includes eye-popping
fieldwork and island exploration,
Gálvez and Stoev choreographed
a
virtual
solar-system-surfing
rendezvous that afforded students
an unusual glimpse into the starry
universe.
Many students had dispersed from
the Madrid campus to quarantine
with their families. Instead of
boarding a plane to Tenerife, they
logged in from time zones around
the world, connecting to a robotic
telescope on the Canary Island of La
Palma. Stellarium, a planetarium
software that creates breathtaking 3D
simulations of the night sky, enabled
Gálvez and Stoev’s intrepid virtual
pioneers to travel where no Suffolk
University student had before, planetand moon-hopping from home.
The tool provided each student an
opportunity to pursue research.
“The access to this online program
allowed me to look at a black hole
thousands of light years away,” said
Mikayla Hopkins, Class of 2022.
“Whether it was the weather in the
Southern Hemisphere on the day
they were born or the path of an
asteroid going over Poland last week,
students got to use the tool to satisfy
their own interests,” she adds.
From top:
NASA
image of
the galaxy.
Students
during a
2019 visit
to the Izaña
Observatory.
Mount Teide
on the island
of Tenerife.
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�Launch
Point Suffolk
Keeping Up With the
Dow Joneses
Financial services alumni host finance undergraduates on a
two-day tour of the banking and wealth management industry
Story by Ben Hall
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�Launch Point Suffolk
Fall 2020
Finance Trip for Undergrads
Opposite page: Students capture a candid group selfie in Times Square. Above: Students and University President Marisa Kelly at the New York Stock Exchange.
Fearless Girl. Sydney Watson, Class of 2021. Alumnus Bob Panessiti, MSF ’98, who planned and funded the trip, joins students for the experience.
Photographs: Michael J. Clarke
T
ucked in a corner of the gilded Board
Room at the New York Stock Exchange is
a giant Fabergé urn emblazoned with the
crest of Tsar Nicholas II. The urn and its pedestal
stand 6 feet tall—about the size of a well-fed
Cossack. The urn was a thank-you gift from the
Tsar to the NYSE for $1 billion in bonds (which
the Russian government later defaulted on).
For nine Suffolk undergraduates in the
finance program, the story of the urn was
just one of many ways their major came alive
during a trip to New York City. Over two days in
early March, the students met with numerous
industry leaders, many of whom are Suffolk
alumni.
The trip was conceived and funded by Bob
Panessiti, MSF ’98, senior vice president of
wealth management at UBS, one of the largest
investment banks in the world. A dedicated
Suffolk alumnus, Panessiti understands
there are some things you just can’t learn in a
classroom.
“I wanted to show the students the various
opportunities available in this industry and help
them decide how they want to move forward as
they begin their professional lives,” he says.
At Morgan Stanley, Marek Herchel, BSBA ’98,
MSF ’00, and Pat Langone, BSBA ’99, advised
the students to take early risks while building
their careers.
At UBS, Panessiti and Global Head of Due
Diligence Desi Narasimhan, MSF ’98, introduced
four younger UBS colleagues who showed just
how attainable a career in finance can be.
“It was
particularly
empowering
for myself
as a Black
woman to see
a powerful
female figure
on Wall
Street.”
—Sydney Watson,
Class of 2021
“As a senior, I found it incredibly useful to
understand the different roles I might have in
a long-term career path,” said Jai Patel, BSBA
’20, who made the networking score of the trip:
When the UBS human resources person invited
the students to apply for a rotational program, he
handed her his resume on the spot.
The students also visited the capital markets
division of RBC to meet Michelle Neal, BSBA ’98,
who has twice been recognized as one of American
Banker’s 25 most powerful women in finance.
She and her colleagues expounded on topics as
varied as how Washington should respond to the
coronavirus crisis, then in its early stages in the
United States, to how to approach a job interview.
With the help of David Mazza, MBA ’15, the
students witnessed the closing bell from the floor
of the Exchange. They also visited Fearless Girl,
the iconic sculpture that depicts a young female
aiming a confident, almost “I dare you” expression
at the New York Stock Exchange building.
“For me, Fearless Girl is a representation of
women occupying a highly concentrated male
space. It was particularly empowering for myself as
a Black woman to see a powerful female figure on
Wall Street,” said Sydney Watson, Class of 2021, one
of four women on the trip.
For Watson and others, another big takeaway
was networking with so many Suffolk alumni who
have such important and varied roles in finance.
“Hearing from people in different parts of
the industry was very beneficial to all of us,”
says Watson. “It made me want to go figure out
what else I could do with my finance degree.”
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Sawyer Business School New Dean
Business
on the Move
New Sawyer
Business School
Dean Amy Zeng
brings a penchant
for partnerships and
project-based learning
Story by Ben Hall
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T
here’s getting out into the
community and there’s getting out into
the community.
As the new dean of the Sawyer Business
School, Amy Zeng wants to do both, starting
on the Boston Common and extending into
the business community.
“I grew up in Beijing. I love big cities, and
I enjoy walking,” Zeng says. “I plan to have
meetings with people while walking on the
Boston Common, especially for one-on-one
conversations.”
That focus on building connections was
a key component of Zeng’s tenure at the
University of Hartford, where she was dean
of the Barney School of Business before
joining Suffolk in July. She succeeded
William J. O’Neill, Jr., who stepped down
after elevating the Business School to new
levels of excellence over almost two decades
of leadership.
Zeng brings to Suffolk a passion for
experience-based learning, which is
central to the Sawyer educational approach.
“Experiential learning is really a way to
bridge the classroom with the real world. The
Sawyer Business School creates that bridge,
and great partners create meaningful
opportunities and long-lasting impacts for
students,” Zeng says.
Zeng has a history of developing industry
and community ties that create learning and
career opportunities for students. At Hartford,
she helped establish dozens of partnerships
with companies, professional organizations,
and educational institutions. She says Suffolk’s
location creates abundant opportunities
to collaborate with the business and other
communities. “It’s a huge advantage.”
Zeng is an accomplished educator and
a recognized scholar in the fields of supply
chain management and global logistics. She
loves working across disciplines with people
from all kinds of technical and academic
backgrounds and cultures. Her own
educational background combines business
and engineering.
Zeng also hopes to expand the Business
School’s focus on service-learning and
social entrepreneurship. That’s particularly
important, she says, with the challenges small
businesses, nonprofits, and others are facing
because of the pandemic. “I think this is a great
opportunity for the Business School to be a part
of that effort to help those organizations recover
and deal with challenges.”
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Fall 2020
One Court Street
An Investment In the
Future
Historic Ames Building becomes
newest residence hall
Photographs: Michael J. Clarke
Story by Greg Gatlin
T
he Ames Building at One
Court Street is one of the
more historic buildings
in all of Boston. It’s also Suffolk
University’s newest residence hall,
where students can experience
all that Boston has to offer in the
heart of one of the city’s most vital
corridors.
Talk about the hub of the
universe. Place a pin on a map of
Boston’s most-central downtown
location and there is One Court
Street, an architectural gem at
the nexus of State, Court, and
Washington streets. The iconic
building most recently operated
as a boutique hotel before Suffolk
bought it in September 2019.
Suffolk President Marisa Kelly
calls the new residence hall “an
investment in the future of our
students and the University
and a signal of our enduring
commitment to this city.”
One Court Street looks out at the
Old State House and is steps from
City Hall, Faneuil Hall, the Financial
District, all of the city’s subway lines,
and key University buildings. It has
instantly become a centerpiece of
Suffolk’s urban campus.
Completed in 1893, the Ames
Building lays claim to being
Boston’s first skyscraper. The
14-story Romanesque structure
was at the time the tallest masonry
building constructed in the United
States. To walk into One Court
Street is to walk into history.
“You instantly feel the historic
character,” says Shigeo Iwamiya,
Suffolk’s director of Residence
Life and Housing. “It feels like
you are walking into something
very significant—a historical
landmark, quite literally. Even the
staircases feel like they are full of
Boston history.”
That historic character blends
with the modern flair of a former
boutique hotel, renovated in 2017.
Exterior and interior views of One
Court Street, a former hotel turned
Suffolk’s newest residence hall.
Lending itself to coronavirus
planning, each of the 112 residential
rooms, which in time will
accommodate up to 300 students,
has its own bathroom. They
also have high ceilings and jawdropping views through cathedral
windows that look out onto the
city. A new, publicly accessible
restaurant and café with outdoor
patio will enliven the streetscape,
and the building provides a
multipurpose student lounge and
conference room space.
The building, which started as
the headquarters for the Ames
family agricultural tool business,
has long been a part of the city’s
commercial history. State Street
was once the only road that
connected the Shawmut Peninsula
with the mainland and the only
route to move goods to and from
Boston Harbor. As today’s students
walk out of One Court Street’s front
door they will walk into all that
history and commercial vibrancy,
in the center of one of the world’s
greatest learning capitals.
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�Launch Point Suffolk
Creativity & Innovation
Imagination
at Work
First-year creativity courses give
students a competitive edge
Story by Nancy Kelleher
A
rtificial intelligence and
automation have been
injecting uncertainty into
employment projections for years.
But Suffolk students are building
the skills that will continue to be in
demand as the job market evolves.
A
first-year
Creativity
&
Innovation course, required of all
Suffolk undergraduates, helps lay the
foundation by challenging students
to take intellectual risks and seize
intriguing learning experiences.
Suffolk offers Creativity & Innovation
classes in 20 disciplines, all aimed at
instilling flexibility in thinking so
that students will explore new ideas
without the fear of failure.
These courses allow students
to take a deep dive into areas
closely aligned with their personal
18
interests. Students in the highly
immersive, hands-on courses
“solve problems on their feet,”
says Marilyn Plotkins, chair of the
Theatre Department and cochair
of the Creativity & Innovation
Steering Committee. “What’s so
great about their not being lecturebased is that they require solving
problems in teams.”
Indira Ortiz Santana was enthused
about her Creative Writing and
Literacy class right from the start: “I
thought: I can be creative and have
fun and just be myself.”
Her
project-based
creative
writing course with Professor Wyatt
Bonikowski incorporated servicelearning through a tutoring program
with 826 Boston, a nonprofit that
helps youths write and publish work.
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With the advent of remote learning
during the spring semester, the
Suffolk students replaced a planned
in-person project with the 826 Boston
youngsters, instead meeting through
Zoom for a storytelling session with
the prompt: What would it be like
to bring home an animal from the
nearby Franklin Park Zoo?
Immersion in creative projects
gave Ortiz Santana confidence.
“Professor Bonikowski really
helped us be better writers and
thinkers,” she says. “Coming up
with something to write in a journal
was hard for me. Now I’m more
expressive. I’m writing poems and
drawing. I actually kept going with
my journal this summer. I open the
window and write about what I see
outside.”
The Creativity
& Innovation
course
Chemistry is
Everywhere
engages
students
through
educational
games such
as Pollution
Monopoly.
Gaming taps
into the part of
the brain where
students retain
information.
Opposite page:
Professor
Stephan
Thieringer visits
with a student.
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Launch Point Suffolk
Creativity & Innovation
Preparing for jobs of the future
Business owners know that unpredictable events in the
environment, medicine, society, politics, and the economy will
occur with greater frequency in the coming decade, according to
Dave Merry, associate provost and executive director of Suffolk’s
Center for Career Education and Professional Development.
“They are looking to bring people into their organizations
who can develop and implement creative solutions that will
help companies to survive, and perhaps to thrive, through those
unexpected challenges,” he says. “In fact, LinkedIn has listed
‘creativity’ as its top soft skill in both 2019 and 2020.”
In the Entrepreneur’s Cocktail course, Shirley Dang, Class
of 2023, and her team created a virtual company and launched
products, discovering in the process “that it’s OK to ask for
help and that nobody needs to be perfect and do everything
themselves.”
Stephan Thieringer, a Sawyer Business School professor
and creator of the course, taps into principles inherent to
entrepreneurism through his lessons. “My course is really an
invitation to think about who
you are and what’s aligned
between your gut, your heart,
and your brain,” he says.
The Creativity & Innovation
courses provide inspiration
for students and instructors,
says George Moker, the
Carol Sawyer Parks Chair
in Entrepreneurial Studies
and cochair of the Creativity
&
Innovation
Steering
Committee.
—Dave Merry, Associate Provost
“Faculty love it because
and Executive Director of
Suffolk’s Center for Career
they can present challenges
Education and Professional
to their students and serve
Development
as coaches,” Moker says.
“Students love it because
they choose a topic that interests them, and they’re aware that
there’s something different about the course—a playfulness about
it, but with high expectations.”
As the coronavirus has battered the world economy, leading to
dire unemployment reports, organizations that have navigated
the pandemic successfully were able to quickly adapt to this
novel situation with innovative solutions, says Merry. So while
machines could sort coronavirus data, and AI could be used to run
assembly lines producing protective clothing, human intelligence
was required to adapt automobile plants for manufacture of
respirator parts and convert fashion house couture lines for
surgical mask production.
“We are differentiating the human from the machine,” Moker
says. “AI is based on probability, while the human brain is based
on survival. We become most creative and innovative when we
are trying to survive.”
Photographs: Michael J. Clarke (2)
“LinkedIn
has listed
‘creativity’ as
its top soft skill
in both 2019
and 2020.”
Creative Course Catalog
Creativity & Innovation
courses teach skills
including adaptability,
resilience, thinking
outside the box, problemsolving, and the ability to
communicate effectively in
a team.
A sample of these skillbuilding courses are:
The Open-Hearted
Historian
Students put themselves in
the shoes of earlier peoples
to understand their lives
from their perspectives.
Think Small:
Change the World
Students design
nanostructures and
nanomachines using inhouse computational and
experimental tools.
The Design of
Everything
By exploring a selection
of genius personalities—
from Newton to
Warhol—students
discover the process
of design and follow
through with hands-on
group creative projects.
Creating the
Dream Team
Students learn the
value of collaboration
for meeting business
challenges.
Sustainability, Energy,
and Technology at
Suffolk University
Students in the projectand team-based course
spend the semester
developing proposals to
address a sustainability
issue on campus.
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�Creating
Access
Mapping
Inequality
A promising young researcher collaborates
with faculty to map risk factors for incarceration
Story by Andrea Grant
T
o what degree does where you’re
from determine who you’ll become?
Suffolk University junior Brianna
Franklin is collaborating with faculty on an
ambitious research project that will combine
incarceration data, potential risk factors,
and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
mapping to try to determine any relationship.
“In my family a lot of people have been in
trouble with the law,” says Franklin, Class
of 2022, a sociology and psychology double
major from Leominster, Massachusetts.
“My father was so smart and had so much
potential, but housing was a challenge, and
he was in and out of shelters. I feel like that
kind of lack of opportunity is one of the main
things that drives people to crime.”
As a first-year student, she wrote about her
developing interest in research and her desire
to make a difference. Her professor read it
and recommended Franklin to Sociology
Department Chair Erika Gebo, who saw a
perfect opportunity to connect a promising
student with an incoming faculty member.
Mentor in the making
Lucius Couloute was an undergraduate
studying economics when the killing of
Trayvon Martin shook the nation and
catalyzed the Black Lives Matter movement.
“Trying to make sense of that, I read The
Autobiography of Malcolm X and learned more
about society’s inequalities. I could see
those disparities at work in the Hartford,
Connecticut, area where I grew up,” says
Couloute, assistant professor of sociology.
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He turned to sociology as a way to
understand—and, he hoped, help lessen—
racism and economic inequality. His
research on the complex relationships
among race, poverty, and incarceration
is yielding data that he hopes will help
change the way society looks at crime,
focusing less on punishment and more on
prevention through social interventions.
When Couloute joined the Suffolk faculty
in 2019, Gebo recommended Franklin as
his research assistant. Franklin read up on
Couloute’s work.
“He has written papers for the Prison
Policy Initiative,” she says, referring to
the Massachusetts-based criminal justice
policy think tank. “I thought that was really
cool because I didn’t even know there was
an organization that tries to promote
preventive policies.”
Franklin began by compiling and
summarizing articles for Couloute. Now
she’s helping him sift through dozens
of qualitative interviews conducted
with formerly incarcerated men. She
is fascinated by some of the responses,
particularly when subjects talk about what
they believe led them into trouble.
“Some people think the flawed system
is the main reason they ended up in
prison, but others believe they are solely
responsible for their own bad decisions,”
she says.
Couloute and Franklin’s next project
will use quantitative data to explore which
camp is (more) correct.
Brianna Franklin, Class
of 2022, serves as a
research assistant on
a project that shows
the relationships
among race, poverty,
and incarceration in
Connecticut.
Mapping a complex problem
Franklin is helping parse data from the
Connecticut Department of Correction, the
U.S. Census Bureau, and other government
repositories to break down incarceration rates and
potential correlated factors—such as education
level and poverty rate—by municipality.
Combining the data with GIS mapping will
help show “which factors are actually the most
critical to crime in Connecticut,” says Michael
Acheampong, a professor in Suffolk’s Center for
Urban Ecology and Sustainability, who is applying
his expertise in data and mapping to the research.
“We have an overlap in our goal to ultimately
inform policy,” says Couloute. “We are excited to
see where the data takes us.”
Franklin says that the way Couloute and
Acheampong are presenting their data will help
visual learners grasp the correlations immediately.
“Even though I don’t really know any areas of
Connecticut, I can look at the map and understand
right away where the problem areas are. I don’t
need to sort through the numbers to understand
really what’s going on,” she says.
Acheampong agrees.
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Revealing Research
Meeting of the Minds
Photographs: Michael J. Clarke, Courtesy of Lucius Couloute (2)
“By the end of this project, we will have a visual that
tells the story.”
Making her way
Working with Couloute and Acheampong has given
Franklin a new plan for her future, one where she can
envision continuing the meaningful research she loves.
“I knew that lab scientists get grants to do projects.
But before I worked with Professor Couloute I didn’t
know there was a viable path for sociologists, too. This
project has opened my mind to new possibilities for
me,” she says.
For Couloute, mentoring Franklin is an opportunity
to pay forward all the advice and encouragement he
received during his own academic career.
“Our students are smart; they’re dynamic, curious,
and they’re excited to learn. Brianna is a brilliant young
scholar who has helped us move forward with our
project while she gains hands-on experience working
with data and building a research project from the
ground up.
“Michael, Brianna, and myself were strangers before
the fall of 2019. Today we are a small but awesome team
working on important social research with direct policy
implications,” says Couloute.
When Lucius Couloute and Michael Acheampong met last
summer at a new-faculty mixer, they realized they could build a
bridge between their disciplines and decided to combine their
strengths.
While Couloute’s upbringing near Hartford sparked his
interest in the sociology of crime and incarceration, Acheampong
embraced technology as a way to help his fellow Ghanaians
protect their natural resources.
Acheampong was a collegian when oil was discovered in
Ghana in 2007, bringing great wealth to parts of the country.
Now his research examines the true cost of that development to
traditional livelihoods and lifestyles—and to the environment.
Using GIS mapping, Acheampong tracks land use changes to
show how oil drilling competes with existing agricultural activity
and affects water resources that support rural Ghanaians. His
work also shines a light on the environmental impacts of turning
forests and farmlands into concrete jungles, such as increased
flooding and groundwater contamination. He overlays data onto
detailed digital maps, then digs deeper through a process called
“ground truthing” by venturing into remote areas to speak with
rural farmers and chiefs. The end result is a compelling datadriven narrative that helps give average citizens a voice as the
country considers further development.
This map below, which combines Couloute’s data using
Acheampong’s GIS mapping approach, illustrates differing levels
of incarceration rates across Connecticut; cities with higher
incarceration rates
are in orange and red,
those with average
incarceration rates are
in yellow, and those
with below-average
incarceration rates are
in green.
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�Creating Access
Fall 2020
Racial Equity
Shawn Newton
Sows Seeds of Change
Associate dean of students addresses inequality in his own community
Interview conducted by Andrea Grant
T
he killing of George
Floyd by Minneapolis
police
officers
this
spring ignited protests across
the country and spurred many
Americans to acknowledge and
confront the structural racism
and inequality embedded within
their communities.
Associate Dean of Students
Shawn Newton discusses how he
is helping people in his own city—
Salem, Massachusetts—address
this complex issue.
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Q: You’ve recently been
appointed chair of the Race
Equity Task Force in Salem,
with the goal of improving
racial equity in all aspects of
Salem life, from policies to
services to the police force. How
do you begin to address such
complex issues?
A: If race equity was something
that was easy to achieve, it would
have been done a long time ago. It
took real leadership for our mayor
to call this group together to
acknowledge there are problems
and commit to addressing them.
My job is to harness the
expertise of the community
and not necessarily to give all
the answers. I believe I have
some. But the task belongs to
all of us, so my responsibility
is to make sure everyone has
a voice and that people who
are in a position to make change
can exercise their voices to do
just that. Then we can jump into
the weeds and really try to make
Salem a better community for
everyone living, visiting, or
going to school here.
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Q: Salem is infamous in
history for the intolerance of
its witch trials in 1692. Can
you talk about the challenges
of addressing centuries of
exclusionary systems?
A: I think Salem is probably no
different from anywhere else.
We’re known for the witch trials,
but a lot of other cities and towns
have been equally involved in
creating systems that may not
have been equitable to everyone.
The challenge is really trying to
reimagine the institutions that
impact people.
Q: Can you give an example of
the kinds of structural inequity
that need to be addressed?
A: There’s an old story about
a young child fishing with his
parent. The child notices a dead
fish in the water. A couple of
hours go by, and they start to see
another one, and another one,
and another one. The parent says,
“I wonder what’s wrong with all
the fish?” But in the child’s infinite
wisdom, he says, “I wonder what’s
wrong with the water?”
Trying to address an issue like
racism, often we’re looking at the
individual rather than looking at
a much larger system.
For example, the educational
system was not created for the
rich diversity of learners that we
have in higher education today.
When you have a system that
hasn’t been tweaked and fully
adjusted to meet the needs of the
new students that are coming in,
you’re going to have problems.
If you look at data and see that a
particular group hasn’t had the
same graduation rate as their
peers for 30 years, at that point
it’s clear that the issue isn’t an
individual student or a handful
of students. There’s a structural
and institutional problem that we
need to fix.
Q: Why is it so important
to get involved in your own
community? What are some
ways others can contribute to
this work?
A: We’re all interconnected.
We don’t have real boundaries
around our communities. Suffolk
students, for example, build
bonds in Boston and then stretch
them out across the world. We
want to live in places where we’re
respectful to one another and can
have healthy conversations about
making our cities and towns
better. There is no overnight
quick fix for institutional
racism. You really have to plant
seeds to make cultural change,
then nurture them and do the
weeding. Addressing issues like
this is going to be messy, but if we
stick with it we can make lasting
positive changes.
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Legal Application
Justice
Code
Juvenile defenders access sentencing alternatives
through app alumna developed as a student
In her third year, Siino was taking classes
in the Law School’s Legal Innovation and
Technology, or LIT, concentration and
serving as an innovation fellow in the
Juvenile Defender Clinic. That meant she
needed to marry her interest in juvenile
defense with some kind of practical tech,
data, or process improvement to help the
clinic work better.
She turned to David Colarusso, clinical
fellow and director of the LIT Lab. With
Colarusso’s guidance, she built a rough
version of the app that she shared with
students, attorneys, and social workers.
They offered tweaks and applause.
Siino’s experience is one shared by many
other tech and innovation students at the
Law School. Like her, they faced their fear
of coding and turned to Suffolk faculty and
staff for guidance. They, too, built apps to
walk people step-by-step through practical
needs such as writing and printing a
consumer protection letter or creating a
parenting plan for divorcing couples.
Story By Michael Fisch
Photographs: Michael J. Clarke
D
efense attorneys, especially when
they’re handling low-level offenses
like small-quantity drug possession
and petty theft, often ask judges to divert
their clients into social programs—from
treatment for drug use disorders to group
therapy—so they avoid the scarlet letter of a
criminal record.
They do that in part because the effects
of a criminal record can be so far-reaching:
ineligibility for college scholarships
or financial aid, lost opportunities for
employment, and denials for private and
public housing.
While working in Suffolk’s Juvenile
Defender Clinic, Nicole Siino, JD ’18, saw
how difficult it was to quickly find her
clients a spot in treatment or job programs
before they were arraigned—and her student
colleagues and public defenders shared the
same concern.
“I sat in court and listened to judges,
attorneys, and probation officers talk
about dozens of programs designed to
help juveniles succeed and discovered that
there was no master list of communitybased resources. No place to go to do a
comprehensive search where you could
learn about programs and determine if they
had openings,” she says.
The idea that young people would lose
an opportunity for professional help and a
shot at redemption largely because lawyers
and social workers didn’t have a basic web
resource seemed wrong.
So she built one.
Today, Massachusetts attorneys (and
anyone else, for that matter) can check the
app on their phones from a courtroom.
A thousand excuses
There could have been a thousand excuses
why Siino might never have undertaken
such an effort: the academic grind of law
school, potential bureaucratic hurdles
among service providers, lack of money and
technical resources to maintain a web app
after her graduation, and—one small hiccup—
she didn’t know how to build a web app.
So, how did she pull it off?
Asking the state to help
“One of the biggest challenges for law
students’ tech projects is how you keep the
project running after you finish school,”
Siino says. As an American Bar Association
Center for Innovation NextGen Fellow, Siino
was able to attend many conferences at
Suffolk following graduation, allowing her
to continue to work on and upgrade her app.
In 2019, Siino presented her app at
Suffolk’s LITCon—a gathering for socially
minded techies, government employees,
academics, and legal tech entrepreneurs
who want to increase access to justice. After
hearing Siino’s talk, a leader at the state’s
public defender office showed interest
in joining forces and increasing the app’s
reach beyond Boston. The public defenders
office is working with the Law School on a
formal agreement. Meanwhile, Project
Tubman, an organization working on an
artificial intelligence public defender tool,
is providing ongoing technical support.
“If you think about the impact of avoiding
a criminal record, it’s monumental,” says
Colarusso. “Nicole was willing to take a
creative approach, learn a new skill, and
never gave up along the way.”
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�Creating Access
Fall 2020
Samia + Miller Scholars
Scholarships Open Doors
Samia and Miller scholars share how donor
generosity makes college journey possible
Interviews conducted by Jennifer Becker
T
wo scholarship programs established
through remarkable acts of generosity
have transformed the lives of
hundreds of Suffolk University students. The
Bert J. Samia and Nathan R. Miller scholars
programs support and empower motivated
students showing academic promise and
financial need who might not otherwise be
able to attend Suffolk.
Leonard J. Samia, BSBA ’69, established
the Bert J. Samia Memorial Centennial
Scholarship Fund in his father’s honor. This
scholarship for students is funded by his
historic $10 million gift to the University.
Samia Scholars enjoy the opportunity to meet
with their benefactor each semester.
Suffolk University Magazine spoke with a few of
the students whose educations and lives have
been indelibly changed by these scholarships.
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“Being a Samia
Scholar has pushed me
to commit to a whole
new level of academic
success, which has,
in turn, helped me to
better all other aspects
of my life.”
—Cheryl Aikins, Class of 2023 and a Bert J.
Samia Memorial Scholarship recipient
Above and at left, Suffolk University
celebrates Leonard J. Samia and
family at the naming celebration and
dedication ceremony for the Leonard
J. Samia Academic Center.
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Fall 2020
Samia + Miller Scholars
Jocelyn De Paz
Biology Major, Health Careers Concentration/Women’s & Gender Studies Minor,
Class of 2022
I honestly cried when I found out I was a Samia Scholar. During my junior year in
high school, my younger brother was diagnosed with cancer. He was in treatment
for about a year, so my parents no longer had the funds for my schooling. The entire
financial burden fell into my hands ... Mr. Samia helped me step foot onto campus as a
first-generation student.
I want to get as much education as possible to be a women’s health advocate. [She
wants to become an obstetrician/gynecologist or practice family medicine.] It would
be amazing if I could utilize my knowledge to help women in my community and all
around the world. This is the reason I declared my minor in women and gender studies.
I find it important to not just focus on being a doctor but also becoming a voice for
social justice. For me, it is truly about helping as many people as possible.
Samia
Scholars
Photographs clockwise: Michael J Clarke, courtesy of students, Michael J Clarke (2)
David Fernandez
Trevor Rafferty
Cheryl Aikins
Global Business Major,
Class of 2023
Politics, Philosophy and Economics
Major, Class of 2022
Finance Major/Business Law Minor,
Class of 2023
I am from Leon, Nicaragua. I finished
my last semester of high school
online after I moved to Woburn
due to social-political problems in
Nicaragua. Since I was a kid, one of
my dreams has been to study in the
United States. ... I am very interested
in learning how business works
around the world, and I would like
to work at Walmart headquarters.
After all, it’s the biggest international
company, and I could have the
opportunity to work in different
countries.
I have always dreamed of being in
a career where I could help people.
… I thought that being a public
defender, or another type of lawyer,
would be a really great career for
me, and Suffolk has such a great
history of developing politically
conscious students.
I wanted to attend Suffolk but was
worried about how my family and
I would cover the costs. The Samia
Scholarship eased my troubles and
financial restrictions. I cannot thank
the Samia family enough for that.
Living in the center of Boston is the
most incredible thing that has ever
happened to me ... with my Samia
Scholarship, I was able to live in
Smith Hall—where I met most of my
close friends—and live the college life.
Mr. Samia’s continued generosity
has made it possible for me to
come here in the first place, and to
stay enrolled.
It has been a rewarding experience
for me to be an RA here; I have met
a lot of people and refined my skill
as a leader, and I learned how to
interact with people better. Also
being here for the Red Sox World
Series parade was unbelievable!
In my eyes, I was blessed with an
incredible opportunity to attend
Suffolk. I love Suffolk because it
is an institution that promotes
diversity and inclusion at all levels.
I would like to become a civil rights
attorney in the near future. I believe
my degree in finance will also aid
me greatly if I ever decide to open
up my own law firm or business.
The only way to pay it forward is to
do my best academically.
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Fall 2020
Samia + Miller Scholars
T
he Miller Scholars program,
named
for
the
late
philanthropist Nathan R. Miller,
HDCS ’03, is focused on graduates of
Boston Public and public charter high
schools. Recipients attend monthly
seminars in their first year that increase
their awareness of University resources
promoting student success and commit
to a semester of community service.
Nathan
Miller’s
philanthropic
support of educational values at Suffolk
University continues today through his
daughter and son-in-law, Barbara
and Peter Sidel.
Dahlia Elamin
Biology Major, Class of 2022
My Miller scholarship was the best news of my
life! I am the oldest sibling and the first to go
through the American college process in my
family, so it was very exciting.
The Miller Scholarship program helped me
connect with other Boston Public Schools
students [at Suffolk], which helped me fit in
better. That is one thing I was worried about. I
want to become a pediatrician. I even completed
my community service at MGH in the radiation
therapy center.
Miller
Scholars
Nicole Oliveira
Diana Pena
Andrea Taylor
Psychology Major/Law Minor,
Class of 2021
Management Major/Public
Relations Minor, Class of 2022
Public Relations Major,
Class of 2021
The fact that I received the Nathan
R. Miller Scholarship allowed me to
further my education at Suffolk.
The Miller Scholars Program made
me feel more welcome.
I was born and raised in Pordenone,
a small town in Italy. As an
international student whose first
language isn’t English, it’s hard
sometimes to share your opinion
because you’re a little afraid others
will judge you. Being with my fellow
scholars has made me feel much
more confident. The Nathan R.
Miller Scholarship has helped me
find my voice at Suffolk and shown
me that my opinions and thoughts
do matter.
I have been very interested in law
since about sixth grade. There
are so many paths and so many
different types of careers you can
have within it—so many different
opportunities to help people. I
had planned to go to law school
immediately after graduating from
Suffolk. I have now decided that I
would like to take at least a year off
and work as a paralegal. In fact, I
am currently taking courses to earn
Suffolk’s paralegal certificate and
am on track to complete it at the
same time as my degree.
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I bonded really well with one of
the advising coaches, Lani Varga.
She helped me plan out the rest of
my years and helped me choose a
major.
At first, I was super nervous,
and didn’t want to participate in
anything right away.
But I pushed myself and joined
four clubs—the Commuter Student
Council, Caribbean Students
Network, Black Student Union, and
Pasión Latina. I even ended up on
the e-board for Pasión Latina, which
made me feel super accomplished.
Being part of the Nathan R. Miller
Scholars program has made me
believe more in myself and made
me feel that other people believe
in me. Because of that, I don’t want
to let them down. So, I push myself
every day as hard as I can.
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Impact
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Testing,
Testing,
COVID-19
Recent alumnus using lab
skills to detect coronavirus
Story by Andrea Grant
A lab at the Broad
Institute, similar
to the one where
Thomas O’Connor,
below, BS ’20, is
currently working
on test samples of
COVID-19
E
very four days a clinician carefully observes Thomas
O’Connor as he tests himself for the coronavirus.
Then O’Connor changes gloves. He puts on a disposable
gown, slips booties over his shoes. Next comes a mask, protective
eyewear, and one final layer of gloves. Even his phone gets a special
covering. He’ll wear this PPE for up to 12 hours a shift as he tests
hundreds, sometimes thousands, of samples for COVID-19—
painstaking and critical work in the fight against the pandemic.
Just a few months ago O’Connor, BS ’20, was finishing up his
biology program at Suffolk and preparing to move to Dublin for a
graduate program in molecular medicine. The global health crisis
put those plans on hold.
Now he is part of a growing team using a technique called reverse
transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) to test samples for
COVID-19 at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. It’s a process
he first learned in Suffolk Professor Celeste Peterson’s Molecular
Genetics course and then honed over two years while working in her
research lab.
“This is so gratifying,” he says. “I can use the skills I learned at
Suffolk and contribute to the pandemic efforts in a positive way.”
As O’Connor copes with the uncertainty of pandemic life, his
work in the lab gives him both purpose and perspective.
“Every day when I come in there may be new automated
machines, a new room replacing a room that was torn down the
week before, or even new people joining the team to help us expand
and reach our full potential,” says O’Connor.
“Seeing all these changes makes me excited to come into work
the next day and makes me think, ‘All right, I’m ready for the next
thing that’s going to be thrown at me.’”
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Entrepreneur In Style
Conscious
Couture
Lauren Nouchi builds an international
brand through fashion risk-taking
Story by Kara Baskin and Greg Gatlin
L
auren Nouchi was
selling her faux fur
coats with a Parisian
flair out of a Brooklyn, New
York, pop-up shop in early
2018 when a Bloomingdale’s
fashion director got word of
the brand.
Nouchi, BSBA ’13, and her
business partner tried to play
it cool. “We didn’t want to look
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like we were fans,” says the
French-born designer and
fashion entrepreneur.
The Bloomingdale’s exec
bought two pieces of Nouchi’s
Apparis brand of vegan
affordable outerwear. And then
she decided she might like to
buy more—as in 5,000 pieces.
Nouchi recalls the fashion
director’s reaching out via
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Instagram and writing: “Oh,
I love your coats. Where can I
find them? And are we going to
be able to see your collections
for next fall?”
The only problem, says
Nouchi: “We didn’t have a full
line. We just had two styles in
a few different colors.”
Nouchi quickly jumped into
design mode. Meanwhile, the
Bloomingdale’s inquiry brought a boost
of confidence at just the right time and
served as a turning point for Apparis.
Nouchi and business partner Amelie
Brick launched a covert operation to
reach every fashion buyer they could
think of from their tiny office.
“It was really a snowball effect,”
Nouchi says. Buyers began to call, and
never-ending lines formed at Apparis’
tiny, pink-wallpapered booth at
COTERIE, an industry-driving fashion
trade show in New York.
Today, Apparis is an international
brand sold in more than 500 stores.
If you’ve browsed Bloomingdale’s in
the past year, bright faux fur coats
or jaunty faux leather trenches from
Apparis might have caught your eye. At
29, Lauren Nouchi, a Suffolk alumni 10
Under 10 honoree for 2020-2021, has
collaborated with fashion icons such as
Diane von Furstenberg. Harper’s Bazaar
has called Apparis “the brand to watch.”
And Forbes magazine this year named
Nouchi to its 30 Under 30: Art & Style
list, noting that “she’s challenging the
fur industry with her vegan label.”
Apparis’ mission is to change the
way people consume fashion. The
company’s clothing exchanges what
Nouchi describes as toxic, unethical
animal farming for more conscious and
sustainable practices. From its design
process to the factories where materials
are sourced to the dyeing of fabrics,
Apparis is 100% vegan and cruelty free.
“When we really thought of the business,
we felt that we needed to do something
that would align with society and the way
we are evolving,” Nouchi says. “I just felt
this would be more meaningful than just
launching another fashion brand.”
Apparis is experimenting with fabrics
that feel like cashmere and wool but are
plant-based. She hopes to innovate with
alternative materials, such as mushroom
and pineapple leather, as well.
Apparis’ target consumers—young, welleducated, trend-conscious—generally try
to shop ethically. Nouchi says the brand’s
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Photographs: Hot Thunderstorm Studio
Apparis, a vegan fashion line
created by alumna Lauren
Nouchi, includes colorful faux
fur coats, seen in the Fall/
Winter 2020 collection.
customers identify with the idea that vegan
fashion,” she says. She saw a missing
fashion, style, quality, and affordability can
niche: affordable, high-quality apparel
coexist. “The younger generation, they’re
like her parents mailed to her from
very opinionated,” she says. “They really
home (which she’d often resell for a
know what they want, and they want to be
fair price to friends who coveted her
more and more involved with brands.”
wardrobe).
Nouchi grew up in Marseilles, France,
Following graduation she believed
the daughter of boutique owners who
she had landed her dream job as a
sold affordable women’s clothing. She
merchandiser at luxury brand Yves
loved attending buying meetings and
Saint Laurent in Paris. Yet, she longed
fashion shows, but she also was intrigued
for something more meaningful, where
by the logistical side of her parents’
she could express herself.
stores. Hoping to study business, she
She vented her frustration over wine
longed to perfect her English and go to
with Brick. A few glasses in, they decided
college in the United States. She moved
to launch Apparis.
across the Atlantic at 17 and eventually
“Most times, over wine, those ideas
made her way to Bunker Hill Community
don’t come to fruition,” she says,
College before transferring
laughing. “This one did.”
to Suffolk, where she
Nouchi’s
business
“We felt
majored in global business
risks are paying off.
that we
and marketing at the
The company recently
Sawyer Business School.
completed its first round
needed
As an international
of seed funding, raising
to do
student,
independent
$3 million in an effort to
something
in a new city, her eyes
refocus strategy on directwere opened to new
that would to-consumer sales.
people, cultures, and
Nouchi says her Suffolk
align with
opportunities—all playing
education
gave
her
society
a big part in personal
structure and a sense of
growth. “I learned a lot
deadlines, prioritization,
and the
about global business,
teamwork, and how to
way
but it’s really the human
best organize her work.
we are
experience that I feel
“All the team projects we
really made me more
had at Suffolk, especially
evolving,”
mature and independent
in the Business School, also
—Lauren Nouchi,
and fearless.”
helped me a lot with what
BSBA ’13
As it turns out, riskI’m doing in my career.
taking is in Nouchi’s DNA.
If I didn’t go to school as
She recalls Sawyer Business School
an international student at Suffolk, I
Executive-in-Residence David Hartstein,
honestly don’t think I would be able to
cofounder of KaBloom floral stores,
do what I am doing right now, which
asking students: “Who thinks they would
is leading a team of 15 people, running
be a good entrepreneur?”
my own [international] business, and
“I raised my hand, and he asked me
taking risks,” she says.
‘Why?’ And I told him, ‘I like to take
Taking those risks is what made
risks.’ And I do,” Nouchi says.
Apparis work.
While working at Boston’s Louis
“For anyone who’s really eager to
Vuitton store, Nouchi got a taste for
succeed or to actually build something,”
what clicked and what didn’t in U.S.
she says, “you have to go through things
fashion. “Clothing is either overpriced
that don’t work to make it work. And
for the quality or very affordable fast
that’s at least my story.”
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National News
Breaking
News
Breana Pitts anchors national CBS
streaming news service during the
coronavirus crisis
Story by Ben Hall
H
At a moment’s notice, Breana
Pitts stepped onto the CBSN
anchor desk to cover national
news as the coronavirus was
breaking in March.
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alf past 2 in the morning is a wretched time to wake up
for work.
But Breana Pitts, BA ’12, is used to starting her day
when other people her age—at least prior to the pandemic—are
just coming back from karaoke night at the Wild Rover.
That’s because for almost four years Pitts has been the traffic
and news reporter for the morning news broadcast on Boston’s
WBZ-TV. Getting into the office by 3:30 a.m. has become almost
routine. Drive to the studios from the South Shore. Do hair and
makeup. Keep an eye on how messed up the Expressway is getting.
Report 14 traffic updates throughout the morning until 7 a.m.
But on March 11, 2020, that whole routine changed.
Like an understudy on opening night when the star breaks a
leg, Pitts got the call … or in this case an email. It was from her
producer, saying that CBS headquarters in New York had been
shuttered overnight after two employees tested positive for the
coronavirus. That left the network unable to broadcast anything
from on site.
Pitts’ producer told her that, after finishing her local broadcast,
she’d start anchoring CBSN, the network’s 24-hour worldwide
streaming news service. Not just for Boston but for the whole country.
All morning long. Indefinitely.
Pitts was already familiar with CBSN. She’s been anchoring the 7-8
a.m. Boston feed since its launch in the fall of 2019. But like William
Hurt’s character Tom Grunick in Broadcast News, she was going national
during a major crisis.
Instead of anchoring stories about Tom Brady’s impending
free agency and breakdowns on the T, she would be on the
air interacting with White House correspondents, doing
talkbacks with financial experts on Wall Street, and juggling
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pressers from Governor Cuomo and
President Trump.
“My whole workflow completely
changed,” says Pitts of her time anchoring
the national desk. “It’s definitely been
a positive experience even though it
flipped my life upside down.”
Pitts didn’t come to Suffolk yearning
to be the next Christiane Amanpour. In
fact, the only reason she ended up in the
University’s TV studio in the first place was
because it had an open work-study position
and Pitts needed a job to maintain her
financial aid. But she quickly got interested
in what was happening in the studio and
started taking classes to learn how cameras
work and what journalists do.
“I fell in love with something I just
stumbled on,” recalls Pitts.
She started doing reports for “Suffolk
in the City,” a weekly segment on New
England Cable News. Broadcasting from
Suffolk’s Studio 73—the camera gets set
up right on Tremont Street—“Suffolk in
the City” has for 10 years given Suffolk
students on-air reporting experience.
Pitts still recalls getting “wicked nervous,
deer in the headlights” during her first
live segment for the show.
“I froze for a second, thinking, ‘I can’t
believe they’re letting me do this.’” says
Pitts. “I’m 21 and I have no idea what I’m
doing!”
Despite the rocky first outing, Pitts
quickly caught the bug and ended up
majoring in broadcast journalism. After
graduation, she worked at a Boston TV
station and then landed a job at KTSMTV in El Paso, Texas, where she was a
multimedia journalist and on-air anchor.
Being in the “anything can happen”
environment of local TV newsrooms was
essential preparation for her new role
with CBSN.
“Once you do more and more live shots
and become more confident in yourself
as a journalist and how you write and
how you present, it becomes easier every
time,” says Pitts. “When they said I was
doing the national broadcast for CBSN,
it’s kind of like, ‘Let me throw on my hair
curlers and put in my eyelash extensions
and let’s do the damn thing.’ You don’t
have time to think about it too much. You
can’t be a planner,” Pitts laughs.
Pitts’ stepping up to handle the CBSN
national news was unexpected. But
it isn’t surprising, according to Jerry
Glendye, Suffolk TV Studio Manager,
who advised Pitts when she was a
student, helping her hone her skills and
develop her on-air talents.
“She’s made herself a jack-of-alltrades, and that’s why CBS trusts her,”
says Glendye. “She has the chops and
experience to do it.”
Back at the WBZ studios, Pitts has a few
minutes to check her email, grab a sip of
coffee, and chat with her producer. Then
it’s back on the air. Governor Cuomo has a
press conference in three minutes.
“Once you do more
and more live shots
and become
more confident
in yourself as a
journalist and how
you write and how
you present, it
becomes easier
every time,”
—Breana Pitts, BA ’12
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�t hits in waves without
warning.
As I go about my “new normal”
of Zoom check-ins with colleagues and
socially distanced rambles with my
toddler, out of nowhere come sudden
bursts of crippling anxiety for the future
of our country. And I know I’m not alone.
David Paleologos, director of the
Suffolk University Political Research
Center, has been conducting national
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and state polls to measure fear
about voter safety, confidence in the
government response to the coronavirus
pandemic, and the overall direction of
the country. He says just looking at the
data gives him a “jolt.”
“You can almost feel the anxiety of the
respondents in the numbers because
people are so concerned about not only
their health but also the political future,”
says Paleologos.
When you see how the pandemic is
impacting politics as usual, it’s clear
that America has some preexisting
conditions. Hyper-polarization. Gridlock.
Disenfranchisement,
disinformation,
and distrust. These comorbidities seem to
have worsened over the years, weakening
our civic unity to a critical degree even
before the public health and economic
devastation of the coronavirus threatened
to wreak havoc on our body politic.
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Pandemic
in a
Suffolk experts reflect on the crisis’ impact and
what the future holds for our political process.
Photograph: Jason Redmond/Getty Images
Story by Andrea Grant
Although there is a widespread perception
that American democracy is resilient, what
if everything changed in an instant? Could
almost 250 years of electoral and legislative
processes be upended by a global health
crisis and then rebuilt in a matter of months?
At Suffolk I regularly talk with faculty,
students, and alumni who study and work
in politics. I usually meet them during
moments of triumph and write about their
accomplishments. Now we discuss the sheer
weight and volume of the monumental
tasks they face as they adapt to, predict,
and shape our political future. Already,
politics in the pandemic have undergone
massive upheaval. The crisis is altering how
campaigns and elections are conducted, how
we engage in the political process, how we
share information, and even how we vote.
As the pandemic continues in the coming
months and as we emerge later, what will
our democracy look like?
CAMPAIGNS
As many people become accustomed to
conducting their lives from the confines of
their own homes, political campaign and
media strategist Roger Fisk, BA ’94, MSP
’00, wonders if they will return to the town
square when the pandemic is over.
Fisk is widely credited with campaign
strategies that led President Barack Obama
to electoral victories in 2008 and 2012. He
understands the power of social and digital
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�“Virtual rallies are
like sporting events
without fans in the
seats—it’s better
than nothing, but
it’s not the same
experience.”
—Ken Cosgrove, Suffolk Political Science
& Legal Studies Professor
City Council seat using grassroots tactics
they’d learned in Suffolk’s Campaign Lab
program and through a course called Ready,
Set, Run. They went door to door canvassing,
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held meet-and-greets, and talked to voters
at countless community events. Those
personal interactions earned and energized
supporters and ultimately helped her
classmate win the race.
By late spring of this year Sandrin was
stationary in South Carolina, a campaign
manager for a congressional challenger
cut off from any face-to-face contact with
the public. She had a trunk full of printed
campaign literature but no in-person events
or battalion of volunteers to distribute it.
All candidates are contending with the
limitations of the pandemic, but they’re
hitting newcomers especially hard, says
Setti Warren JD ’07, the former mayor of
Newton, Massachusetts, who now serves as
the executive director of Harvard University’s
Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and
Public Policy.
“When I ran for mayor the first time, my
campaign and I knocked on 10,000 doors and
met people,” Warren said at a Ford Hall Forum
as part of a Suffolk University spring virtual
event. “People still come up to me today and
say, ‘I voted for you because you came to my
door.’ And I won my election by 469 votes. I
don’t know that I would have been able to win
that race if I couldn’t have gone physically
out to campaign at the local level.”
Incumbents
typically
have
greater
name
recognition,
fundraising leverage, and access
to constituents—advantages in
any election year, but potentially
insurmountable for challengers
now.
In response to the physical
limitations
precluding
traditional campaign events
and canvassing, candidates
have upped their use of digital
communications,
connecting
with their audiences through
platforms like Facebook Live or Zoom
town halls. But Sandrin points out
that those online communications and
conversations may exclude segments of the
population, including some people with low
incomes and others who may be less digitally
connected.
Before the pandemic, President Donald
Trump used large in-person rallies to
welcome all kinds of supporters and then
mined their information to build powerful
databases used in digital campaigning.
This year his campaign has struggled to hold
large-scale events, hampered by pandemic
fears, local public health regulations, and
fake registrations that make data collection
less useful. But the Trump campaign has
lost more than data that fed the campaign
machine, says Suffolk Political Science &
Legal Studies Professor Ken Cosgrove.
“Rallies provide ‘solidarity benefits’ by
energizing supporters. Attendees have a
positive experience; they feel like part of a
group; and they buy merchandise, which
increases viral marketing,” said Cosgrove, who
studies media use and marketing in politics.
“Virtual rallies are like sporting events without
fans in the seats—it’s better than nothing, but
it’s not the same experience.”
For candidates across the country this fall,
in-person interactions, or the lack thereof,
could make all the difference.
VOTING ACCESS
As comedian George Carlin wisely said,
“If you don’t vote, you lose your right to
complain.”
If you’re not satisfied by the government
response to the pandemic—and a national
Suffolk poll released in May found that 50%
of people think the federal government is not
doing enough to help—or with the way your
state or local elected officials are representing
you on other issues, you have a chance to have
your say on Tuesday, November 3.
But will it be safe?
If the spring’s primaries were a dress
rehearsal for the nation’s pandemic
electoral process, a fiasco could be in store
for opening night.
Wisconsin was the first act.
The state’s chaotic primary in April took
place at the height of nationwide “safer at
home” initiatives and after an 11th-hour legal
battle and Supreme Court ruling overturned
the governor’s attempts to postpone the
election or extend absentee voting.
Crowds of voters in face masks waited
in long lines outside Wisconsin polling
stations. Warren of the Shorenstein Center
calls the Wisconsin precedent “really, really
troubling” for both voter participation
and safety, though studies are mixed as to
whether there was a meaningful increase in
COVID-19 cases.
“They didn’t have enough volunteers and
staff, so they had to eliminate locations for
voting, which meant they had huge numbers
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media and used it masterfully to help Obama
connect with a wider, younger, and more
diverse audience. But even Fisk sees online
and mobile tools as mere enhancements
to a campaign—the core comes from
those “person-to-person, door-to-door
interactions” that provide opportunities to
share perspectives, change minds, and build
community bonds.
The pandemic, he says, is changing
our relationships with our neighbors and
with our communities. “There are fewer
opportunities for respectful disagreement
and possibly even persuasion,” he says.
“Maybe the person that you would have
bumped into on the way out of that town
meeting could have explained something to
you in a way that you wouldn’t have stumbled
on just online, and you could have walked
out of there significantly different than you
walked in.”
When I first met Clara Sandrin, BS/MS
’18, two years ago she had just helped a
classmate win a Brockton, Massachusetts,
�Although there is a widespread
perception that American
democracy is resilient, what
if everything changed in an
instant? Could almost 250 years
of electoral and legislative
norms be upended by a global
health crisis and then rebuilt in
a matter of months?
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�Silver Linings
Brendan Burke
Professor, Institute
for Public Service
“The pandemic got us to
slow down, and that gave
us time to think about the
value of family, community,
the environment. Since
then we’ve been immersed
in an urgent conversation
and deep soul-searching on
racism in America. Time
will tell if this moment of
reckoning on both issues
will lead to lasting change,
but I think there’s going to
be a shift.”
Sonia Alleyne, MPA ’01
Executive in Residence,
Institute for Public Service
“The pandemic has
uncovered that we have
a vast system of inequity
in this country. We were
able to mobilize quickly
to provide laptops to
kids, food to families, but
why couldn’t we do that
absent the pandemic? We
need to strengthen our
communities because you
never know when another
storm is approaching.”
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Christina Kulich-Vamvakas
Instructor, Political Science
& Legal Studies
“The realization that many
jobs can be done remotely
should open paths to better
employment for people
with disabilities who need
accommodations. Remote,
project-based internship
programs could also be a
game changer for students
who don’t have the
ability to do a traditional
internship for a variety
of reasons: geographic
location, time/work
constraints, and the lack of
resources to take an unpaid
internship.”
Jessica Finocchiaro,
MS/MPA ’13
City Councilor, Methuen,
Massachusetts
“The best way to effect
change is to be a part of it.
That’s why I got involved
in government. I hope
people get involved, stay
involved, and assert their
opinions using the new
tools and platforms that
have been adopted during
the pandemic.”
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of people waiting in line for hours,” says Warren. “Talk about
voter disenfranchisement. And the communities where there
were long lines are underserved communities.”
The Wisconsin primary debacle, like the pandemic itself,
exposed the underlying conditions that threaten to tear our
country apart, including partisan bickering, confusion, fear,
misinformation, and inequality. The latter is particularly
unsettling.
Voter disenfranchisement is as grave a threat to our country as
the pandemic. Every person deterred from casting a ballot is a
partner lost in our shared democracy and the rebuilding of our
damaged institutions.
The Wisconsin primary was not an isolated event. A similar
scene played out across Georgia in June, leaving election officials
there calling for investigations into long lines and delays.
To keep polling places open we need, among other things, a
new generation of well-trained helpers.
“What we’re up against right now is a poll worker base that
is dramatically older than the rest of the population, and those
people are not going to want to work on Election Day,” says
Suffolk Professor Rachael Cobb, Political Science and Legal
Studies chair, who is racing against the clock to make sure
polling places are ready.
Building on the efforts of the University Pollworkers Project
she started in 2006 to recruit and train students to serve at polls,
Cobb is designing an academic course to prepare student poll
workers and working with municipal election officials to design
new poll worker training materials that address social distancing
and disinfection practices.
Vote-by-mail seems like another obvious solution. It isn’t
a panacea—some voters need assistance or simply prefer to
vote in person, and there are costs for printing and postage to
consider—but Cobb believes it might be the best way to ensure a
free and fair 2020 election.
Red, blue, and purple states, including Colorado, Utah,
Washington, and Hawaii, conduct statewide elections by mail.
Others are looking to expand vote-by-mail capacity during the
pandemic.
Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker recently signed into law
a voting reform package that expands vote-by-mail and lengthens
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Left: Setti Warren JD ’07, former
mayor of Newton, Massachusetts,
serves as the executive director of
Harvard University’s Shorenstein
Center on Media, Politics and
Public Policy. Right: Rachael Cobb,
Suffolk professor and political
science and legal studies chair,
created the University Pollworkers
Project.
early in-person voting periods. The
new law reflects widespread support in
Massachusetts—74% of state residents
said they would favor conducting the
September primary and the November
general election by mail according to a
spring Suffolk poll.
While opponents raise the possibility
of voter fraud as a downside, evidence
from states that have conducted voteby-mail elections does not support
those fears, says Cobb. “There have been
a statistically insignificant number
of instances of fraud to date, and
safeguards in place mean when they do
happen, they are caught.”
The potential benefits, however, are
real, according to Cobb and others.
Instead of seeing an increase in
voter disenfranchisement due to the
pandemic, vote-by-mail could be an
opportunity to engage more voters. A
Suffolk University poll shows 65% of
Americans are in favor of this approach.
Mail-in voting supports access
to the democratic process for older
members of the population who may
be particularly vulnerable right now
because of the pandemic. And an
expansion of mail-in balloting could
help bring more “low-propensity”
voters like millennials into the process,
according to the National Conference of
State Legislatures. Voter turnout data
from states such as Utah show higher
rates of participation among younger
people and people of color in counties
with mail-in voting.
Warren adds that Americans need
to radically rethink the way we do
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the Classroom
elections, noting that both parties have
won with vote-by-mail in states that
have used the method for years.
“As romantic as it is to get your cup of
coffee and go down to a polling place on
a cold Tuesday in November, it’s not the
best way to run elections, and we can do
better,” he says.
STATE AND LOCAL
As Amercians grapple with the
logistics of the pandemic, state and
local politics never have seemed more
critical.
Governors have been the ones
coordinating closures, testing, and
tracing, and creating other pandemic
management programs. Public health
guidance and enforcement often are
delegated to individual municipalities.
Suffolk
Public
Administration
Professor Brendan Burke says he’s
encouraged by the way many governors
have stepped up and in some cases
banded together across party lines
to negotiate contracts for essential
supplies and align reopening strategies
in the absence of a more-coordinated
federal response.
Many
state
legislators
and
municipal leaders have maintained
a vitally important role—connecting
constituents to accurate scientific and
policy information as well as resources
to combat housing, food, and economic
insecurity.
Massachusetts State Senator Brendan
Crighton, MPA ’09, knows that some
view Lynn, Massachusetts, the largest
city in his district, as an “underdog”
This summer, more than 140 Suffolk University
students got a jumpstart on their academic
year by diving into the COVID-19 pandemic’s
enormous implications on democracy and
politics through an innovative and free online
course. The nine-week Politics in the Time
of Global Pandemic virtual series connected
students—many of them just starting their
Suffolk careers—not only with each other
but with experts, scholars, and public policy
leaders from around the country. They shared
explorations of the humanitarian crisis caused
by the pandemic, its impacts on social justice,
political partisanship, governing, elections,
information wars, and more.
The University’s Political Science and Legal
Studies Department teamed up with Suffolk’s
Ford Hall Forum and the WGBH Forum
Network to bring the online lecture series
to the outside world. WGBH produced the
moderated conversations, where students
posed questions to experts in immigration law,
national security, and voter protection. They
heard from legislative and political leaders,
scholars, and journalists, including Suffolk
County District Attorney Rachael Rollins;
political scientist Sarah Binder, a senior fellow
with the Brookings Institution; and Dara Lind,
who covers immigration policy for ProPublica.
Political Science Department Chair Rachael
Cobb describes the course as “super dynamic,”
in that it brought the discussion beyond the
classroom and to the broader public through
a shared experience. Hundreds logged in to
view the discussions.
“Because we were talking about things
happening right at that very moment with
people working on those things right at that
very moment, we were all feeling the urgency
of now,” Cobb says. New students immediately
got ideas about possible courses of study
or internships before their first semester
had officially even begun. “I think we have
proven that in an online setting you can build
community, engage ideas, and make people
feel something that is bigger than themselves,
even when we are all in our living and dining
rooms,” Cobb says. —Greg Gatlin
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�contending with economic and social
challenges exacerbated by the pandemic.
Now more than ever, Lynn residents,
many of whom are essential workers,
need public servants who can work
together to protect their interests as the
country moves into post-pandemic life.
“In unprecedented times people
come together. We’ve been able to find
compromise on pretty complicated
issues so far,” he says. Crighton and
colleagues on both sides of the aisle
worked together alongside community
advocates to expand housing protections
and unemployment assistance during the
pandemic. They streamlined debates and
processes that normally take years into
targeted actions and reached consensus
in weeks.
When temperatures are running high,
it’s often local officials who have the
power to break the fever.
Orange
County,
California,
a
historically conservative pocket in a liberal
state, became a political battleground in
early May when Democratic Governor
Gavin Newsom singled out its beaches
for closure after images of crowds
seemingly disregarding social distancing
restrictions exploded in the media.
Megan Dutra, BS ’13, is a policy adviser
to Republican Orange County Supervisor
Lisa Bartlett. Dutra says that when the
beach closure threatened to turn a public
safety issue into a political one, Bartlett
worked with the governor’s office on
a compromise solution—lowering the
rhetorical temperature and opening the
beaches again for activities like surfing
and running that don’t encourage
stationary groups.
It’s up to our elected officials to have
these tough conversations and make
concessions, to risk their ideological
“purity” in pursuit of solutions. It’s a
concept Suffolk Public Administration
Professor Marc Holzer calls a “public
service orientation.”
At a time when some in power seem to
care more about protecting their careers
than serving their constituents, we can
still find examples of dedication to the
common good all around us. Holzer points
to a shift in attitudes toward and from
essential workers: “Health care workers,
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but also people in the private sector like delivery
drivers and grocery store workers, are redefining
themselves in terms of a broader purpose.”
Perhaps this new sense of purpose is exactly what
we need to reignite interest in civic participation.
THE REBIRTH
What if the pandemic is not an isolating force, but
an opportunity for increased civic engagement?
As rumors of an impending state shutdown
swirled mid-March, Jessica Finocchiaro, MS/MPA
’13, a Methuen, Massachusetts, city councilor,
drafted emergency resolutions to allow the council
to continue its work remotely and to provide more
opportunities for residents to be involved via
videoconferencing, email, and telephone as public
meetings moved online.
“We want to make sure we’re getting the public
feedback that we need during this difficult time
and being as transparent as possible,” she says,
noting that creating more options for remote
public participation actually has made local
government more accessible for some
residents.
In South Carolina, Sandrin and her
candidate paused fundraising and
campaigning in March and focused on
getting people the information they need
to be safe. Since volunteers cannot knock
on doors to raise awareness, they started a
phone bank to check in on seniors instead.
What might have been policy conversations a
few months ago are now personal as they make
sure residents have groceries, services, and in some
cases just simple human contact.
“Now when we talk to residents, the conversation
is less, ‘Hey, who are you voting for in November?’
and more, ‘This is a weird time. Are you doing OK?’”
says Sandrin.
The future, at least for a while, almost certainly
holds fewer chaotic in-person spectacles like the
Iowa caucuses. Maybe it looks more like small groups
of friends sipping cocktails on Zoom while watching
a town hall meeting or neighbors debating local
zoning ordinances on NextDoor. Perhaps in some
ways we’ll never go back.
Safeguarding the election and mending our civic
life will take bipartisan cooperation, but maybe
that’s not as impossible as it might seem to those of
us who have been spending more time on Twitter
than in the town square.
Fisk says that “ultimately, for all the noise that’s
made by the extremes, American civic life is largely
determined by folks between the 40-yard lines that
are either center left or center right.”
Right now, it is literally the folks between
the 40-yard lines who are giving us hope.
Public Administration Professor Burke
says his town once held a public forum on
its high school football field to accommodate
all the residents who wanted to weigh in on a
particularly important issue. Recently, we’ve
seen examples of cities and towns across the
country using the same strategy. The images
of neighbors in lawn chairs, waving to each
other from their 6-foot chalk circles as they
come together in common cause, show the
best of what a participatory democracy can
be, even in the most challenging times.
“In unprecedented
times people come
together. We’ve
been able to find
compromise on
pretty complicated
issues so far.”
—Brendan Crighton, MPA ’09,
Massachusetts State Senator
It’s comforting to remember that at its
most basic level our democracy is made up
of our neighbors. They deliver our mail,
teach our children, and care for our loved
ones in hospitals and nursing homes. They
give their time to serve on local committees
and volunteer at food pantries. Many are
struggling, and many more are stepping up
to help. Each one deserves to have their voice
heard and their vote cast—safely.
As I’ve talked with more than a dozen
Suffolk alumni, students, and faculty experts
one phrase has come up in every single
conversation: “We’re all in this together.”
I hope that resolve is what remains to drive
us forward after this moment of crisis (that
seems like decades) finally passes.
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PURPOSE,
MADE FOR
CHANGE
Suffolk University is driven to enable every one of our students
to harness their potential, seize meaningful opportunities, and
take actions that make a difference. It’s a purpose rooted in our
founding mission and one that doesn’t pause in times of crisis.
We also have a long tradition of innovation and adaptation to
meet the challenges of the moment. And the ability to adapt
has never been more crucial. We demand it of ourselves as
an institution as much as we cultivate it in our students.
While our day-to-day efforts evolve, our obligation to
shape a brighter future remains, unwavering. What
comes next is ours for the making.
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�BRIDGE
BUILDER
The
Developer Tom O’Brien is changing the face of Boston
with a rare compassion and a community-minded approach
Story by Alyssa Giacobbe
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Boston and stay for as long as it took to answer
every question. “I can’t say it’s always fun,
because there are tense moments,” he says.
“But getting to know people, listening to
them, it’s what I enjoy most about my career,
I suppose.”
O’Brien is one of Boston’s most prominent
developers, with a portfolio that includes
a hand in building, essentially from
scratch, some of the city’s most thriving
neighborhoods, including parts of East
Cambridge, Brighton, and the South
Boston waterfront. His development firm
is elevating Boston’s skyline with a major
redevelopment of the Government Center
Garage. And the upcoming redevelopment
of Suffolk Downs is set to transform 161 acres
of East Boston and Revere into a commercial
and residential complex that will include
5.2 million square feet of new office space
and hotels, two new retail squares, 10,000
apartments, including a significant amount
of affordable housing, and 40 acres of new
parkland. O’Brien’s team anticipates the
project will contribute to the creation of
some 14,000 new jobs. As of early September,
the project was moving toward a Boston
Planning & Development Agency board vote
at a planned Sept. 24 special hearing.
It is ambitious, complex, transformative
and represents everything O’Brien loves
about being a real estate developer.
“I would say if it’s big and complicated and
other people are shying away from it, then
it’s probably right for us,” he says of his HYM
Investment Group’s ideal endeavor, and
Suffolk Downs certainly qualifies.
Among urban developers, O’Brien is the
anti-bulldozer. He’s a bridge builder in a field
known for being competitive and cutthroat,
where victories are often earned by some
measure of force. He has earned a reputation
for his compassion and communitymindedness and has managed to succeed
without straying from the strong moral sense
instilled in him by his parents and reinforced
by his role as husband and father.
“Tom is a family-first person,” says Doug
Manz, HYM’s director of development.
“That’s funny to say when you’re talking about
a business perspective, but, fundamentally,
family informs everything he does.”
Photograph: Faith Ninivaggi
here are few things developer
Tom O’Brien loves more than a
community meeting, even the ones
where people disagree with him,
which are most of them.
O’Brien, JD ’93, attended almost
450 meetings, ranging from one-onone discussions in people’s kitchens to
large public presentations, in laying the
groundwork for the redevelopment of
Suffolk Downs. The former horse-racing
site where East Boston meets Revere is,
under O’Brien’s lead, one of the largest
redevelopment projects in Boston’s history.
“They stand up to ask a question. They’re
angry, they’re frustrated, sometimes they
have bad information, or they haven’t really
thought it through,” he says. Those are the
people he wants to talk with most of all.
O’Brien, has been a meetings enthusiast
ever since he served as director of the Boston
Redevelopment Authority (BRA)—the city’s
urban planning division since renamed the
Boston Planning & Development Agency—
where once or twice a week he’d meet with
residents in neighborhoods throughout
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�Boston’s Government Center Garage was
built in the 1960s and is the largest parking
structure in the city. It is also, in O’Brien’s
view, the most unsightly—an alienating,
Brutalist-style concrete divider between the
city’s North and West ends and Downtown
Crossing that casts a figurative and literal
shadow on Boston. “The garage was a terrible
idea when it was built,” says O’Brien. “And it’s
been a burden to the downtown ever since.”
For decades, ever since he served as
director of the BRA, and perhaps even
before that, O’Brien has dreamed of making
better use of the space. As he walks through
the build site on the corner of Congress and
Sudbury streets, he reminisces about taking
the Orange Line to the Haymarket MBTA
station as a kid to watch hockey games at
the old Boston Garden. “As far back as I can
remember, nobody thought about wanting
to live here, go out to eat here, that sort
of thing,” he says. “It was come for work
or a game and get out.” Some 10 years ago,
O’Brien got his chance when his firm won
the bid to redevelop the garage as part of the
creation of Bulfinch Crossing, a mixed-use
development that will, in O’Brien’s words,
bring daylight to that part of the city for the
first time in half a century.
Like Suffolk Downs, it is a long, slow haul
with many moving parts and many problems
to be solved. O’Brien organized and attended
more than 50 meetings with community
leaders and neighborhood groups for
Bulfinch Crossing’s pre-build process,
leading to the winning bid 10 years ago.
When completed in 2022, the development
will include six new high- and mid-rise
buildings, with more than 1 million square
feet of office space, some 800 residential
units, a retail corridor, and a public square. A
planned 50-story glass office tower designed
by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects is slated to rise
about 600 feet with a stunningly graceful
facade that, together with the already built
Sudbury residence tower, will enhance the
city skyline.
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Suffolk Downs will transform 161 acres of East Boston and Revere into a
commercial and residential destination, with office space, hotels, two new retail
squares, 10,000 apartments, affordable housing, and 40 acres of new parkland.
O’Brien grew up in Scituate, Massachusetts, the middle son of Anne and John
O’Brien, MBA ’81, who raised their children to value education, family, and faith.
There were two basic house rules growing up, says O’Brien: To love God, and to do
that by loving other people. “The basic idea, and it really is very basic, was to try to
listen and to be kind and to do what you can to positively affect people’s lives,” he says.
O’Brien and his brothers spent many weekend afternoons knocking on doors with
their father, a local political devotee who would canvass for one candidate or another.
“My parents were really inspired by people in the church who were active in trying
to create social change,” says O’Brien. “There was the sense that government, and
politics, can make a difference in people’s lives.”
After graduating from Brown University, where he played football (along with his
younger brother, Bill, who is now head coach of the NFL’s Houston Texans), O’Brien
went to work for AIG in New York City. Finance, he quickly realized, was not the right
path. He returned home to work for the Michael Dukakis presidential campaign,
which set him in a different direction, eventually landing him at the Massachusetts
Industrial Finance Agency (MIFA), where he worked with manufacturers seeking to
expand their facilities and learned the ins and outs of government financing.
He felt at home working in government and politics—he liked people, and they liked
him, and he had a patience for navigating systems. Figuring a law degree would help
support a career either on the front lines or behind the scenes, he attended Suffolk
Law at night while working at MIFA during the day.
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”Going to law school at night is definitely a badge
of honor,” says O’Brien, who fondly recalls the
impact of camaraderie with his law school peers
and the relationships he built with professors such
as the late Honorable John E. Fenton, Jr. and the late
Victoria Dodd.
The grueling schedule and challenging
coursework gave O’Brien a new sense of
professionalism. “It really helped me become a
different person,” he says. “It honed my skills to be
able to write well, it made me a person who could
formulate and make an argument.”
O’Brien wasted no time applying those skills when
in 1992, his third year in law school, he served as the
campaign manager to his older brother who was
seeking a seat in the Massachusetts State Senate;
John D. O’Brien, Jr., JD ’85, won that year and served
a total of four terms representing Merrimack Valley.
O’Brien credits his law degree with significant
career milestones. After passing the Massachusetts
bar in 1993, MIFA named him general counsel,
which O’Brien believes put him on the radar of Tom
Menino, then the city’s new mayor, who was looking
for a chief of staff at the BRA.
O’Brien was only 29 years old but quickly rose
through the ranks to become the agency’s director in
less than a year. He was a star from the start, which
worked both in his favor and against; he quickly
understood that the key to success in politics is
knowing how to toe the line, a job he, a consummate
middle child, did well. He learned how to be good
but not too good; to shine without outshining; to
build bridges.
“At the BRA we had the planning side and the
economic development side,” remembers Kanna
Kunchala, a senior vice president at City Year, who
served as O’Brien’s assistant at the BRA. “Sometimes,
the sides didn’t agree, but Tom was really good at
helping them find common ground. And getting
people to compromise. He just figured out a way to
get everybody to agree.”
He particularly excelled at sharing credit, often
an uncommon trait in government.
Kunchala remembers when O’Brien landed on
the cover of the Boston Globe magazine as part of a
story about his work with the BRA and its impact on
the city—the headline: Where is Tom O’Brien Taking
Boston? “I thought he wasn’t going to come to work
for a week, like, he just hated it,” Kunchala laughs.
Not much has changed since: Kunchala recalls his
former boss’ discomfort at a more recent United
Way ceremony honoring O’Brien’s professional
and philanthropic contributions toward racial and
income equality, including his work as cofounder
The soaring,
600-foot-tall
One Congress
glass office
tower,
designed
by Pelli
Clarke Pelli
Architects,
will enliven
Boston’s
skyline.
POST PANDEMIC
Beyond the fact that COVID-19 has made Tom O’Brien’s job logistically
much more difficult—his construction sites are required to follow
safety protocols that limit the number of workers at one time and
include mandatory daily temperature testing—the pandemic also has
raised larger questions about the future viability of cities. The virus has
disrupted city and work life and left many wondering to what degree
those disruptions might become permanent. Those are big questions for
a developer of some of the biggest office and residential sites in Boston.
O’Brien isn’t worried. It’s something he’s thought about every day for
years—he’s spent his career making cities more livable for all sorts of
people under all sorts of conditions, and he doesn’t buy that cities are
doomed. O’Brien has just started selling luxury condominiums in the newly
constructed Sudbury residential tower in Bulfinch Crossing. He expects
the number of international buyers may drop but says there are still plenty
of people who want to live in a downtown Boston building with a pool
deck, sky lounge, fitness center, pet spa, and a 48th-floor private rooftop
garden. “Generally, we feel like the market has stabilized and people are
still out there looking to try to buy new homes,” O’Brien says.
He says the One Congress office tower project that will anchor the
Bulfinch project is in an early enough phase to make changes, such as
elevators being controlled by a phone app “so you don’t have to touch
anything.”
“For pretty much all of humankind, people have wanted to work
together,” O’Brien says. “Just before COVID-19, what was really driving
the real estate business is the concept of people working collaboratively.
I think the idea that we would give all that up doesn’t seem like a natural
progression in terms of human history. So I have faith: We’ll get back on
that path.” —Greg Gatlin
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FOCUS HAS
ALWAYS
BEEN ON
BUILDING
THE
COMMUNITY
AROUND
ANY GIVEN
PROJECT.”
—Doug Manz, HYM’s
Director of Development
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of the Massachusetts Business Immigration
Coalition. “Everyone was talking about how
great he is, and I said to him, ‘You just want to
crawl under the table right now, don’t you?’”
O’Brien spent seven years at the BRA. He
is perhaps best known for having overseen
the development of the Seaport, though he is
personally proudest of bringing grocery stores
to neighborhoods that had long gone without.
He would hold weekly community meetings
across Boston to find out what people wanted.
As Kunchala recalls, O’Brien was patient.
“He was able to win people over by sheer
perseverance. He just stood there and just
took every question,” he says. “It just meant a
lot to everybody in the neighborhood, because
they were like, ‘Whatever happens, this guy
definitely cares.’”
O’Brien describes his wife, Patricia, MBA
’87, as his mentor—the most professionally
influential person in his life. “She’s always
been the person pushing me to live up to the
ideals that we talk about,” he says.
“She’ll say, ‘if you care about creating more
affordable housing, what are you doing about
it? if you care about being an anti-racist, what
are you doing about it?’”
O’Brien was working at the BRA when he and
Patricia began to start a family, adopting their
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first child, Lucas, from Colombia. Their second, Nina, was born
the following year in Guatemala, and after that Tomas, from
Ecuador. “Lucas was an amazing gift to us, and we realized that
no matter how this child came to earth, he was meant for us
and we were meant for him,” says O’Brien. “And we recognized
there are a lot of families who are built in ways that are perhaps
not as predictable. So we went through the process quickly.”
Around that time, rumors began to swirl that Menino felt
threatened by O’Brien, who was talented, driven, and perhaps
worst of all, universally well liked, and in 1999 O’Brien was
ousted from the BRA.
It proved to be less a setback than an opportunity. O’Brien
went to work for Tishman Speyer, a New York-based real estate
investment firm, where over six years he learned how to finance
real estate and raise capital. Then he worked two years at JPI
Companies, a national developer, where he met Manz and Paul
Crisalli. Eventually, the three began to discuss forming their
own company to create transformational, transit-oriented
urban projects.
“Tom’s focus has always been on building the community
around any given project,” says Manz. “He wants the company
to be more than just a business.”
In 2010 they launched HYM, an acronym inspired by
O’Brien’s fourth child, Marisol, who had come to O’Brien and
Patricia from Guatemala in 2000 and died in 2008 following a
long illness with a rare genetic disease called leukodystrophy.
“When Marisol was younger, before she lost her voice, she
would put her arms up and say, ‘Hold you me,’” says O’Brien.
“Her words would get mixed up. The best part about the name
is being in big presentations and seeing it up on a slideshow,
and I smile and think of her. As we’ve grown, people think HYM
is some big national real estate conglomerate or something
when, you know, it just stands for ‘hold you me.’”
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FAMILY AFFAIR
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Tom O’Brien and his wife, Patricia, MBA
’87, met on a blind date that got off to a
rough start.
O’Brien and Patricia had always been active in their parish, but when Marisol became
sick they began to wonder what, exactly, the purpose of her life had been. They joined a
group for grieving parents at St. Anthony Shrine in Boston and began to call on prayer
to help cope with the loss.
“The tragedy of losing a child brings you to a variety of different places, but we believe
that Marisol’s purpose in our life was for us to become closer as a family, hopefully
become closer to our faith, and to be kinder and better listeners to people,” he says. “We
feel her presence frequently. Typically, when I’m going into a big meeting or something
important, I’ll whisper her name and say, ‘Daddy needs your help a little bit.’ It just
brings me a sense of peace.”
The role O’Brien’s children play in his work can’t be underplayed; their fifth child,
Dureti, came to them from Ethiopia. O’Brien has received numerous awards recognizing
his efforts at improving relations among racial, religious, and ethnic groups, including
the Abraham Joshua Heschel Interfaith Relations Award by the Anti-Defamation
League, and he frequently testifies on behalf of the Massachusetts Immigrant and
Refugee Advocacy Coalition (MIRA).
“I’ve run out of words to thank Tom for the work he’s done,” says Eva Millona, MIRA’s
CEO. “The fact that he adopted five children and made a home and provided for people
who came from a most vulnerable place—that decision alone I think speaks volumes to
who Tom is.”
He serves on the boards of organizations committed to the development of
underprivileged youth, like the Ron Burton Training Village and the East Boston Social
Centers, and has been a strong proponent of workplace diversity since HYM’s start. The
company is comprised of 50% women and 30% minority team members, which in the
real estate development world is unusual. “I think he’s really trying to do work to lift up
the whole city as much as he can,” says Justin Pasquariello, East Boston Social Centers’
executive director.
Someone in O’Brien’s position and with his abilities could easily be caught up in his
ego, points out Father Tom Conway, the executive director of St. Anthony Shrine. “But
he’s just always looking out for other people,” he says.
O’Brien collaborated with Conway to propose an open-air plaza at Winthrop Square,
with a new St. Anthony Shrine church, a new friary and ministry center, and a new
downtown Boston school in addition to the requisite high-rise residential and office
tower. Another developer ultimately won the bid, but Conway was struck by O’Brien’s
care for the community in developing his bid.
“He uses his connections for the benefit of other people—and obviously for the benefit
of his own business, too—but, you know, other people aren’t left behind,” says Conway.
“I’m seen as a religious leader in Boston, and I’m taken aback by how good he is.”
O’Brien, in his penultimate year as a
Suffolk Law evening student at the time,
was literally running late because he
had to turn in a course paper. He made
a full sprint for the Donahue building on
Temple Street, where the Law School
was located at the time, dropped off
the paper, then ran to a Faneuil Hall bar
to meet his date, about 10 minutes late.
“She was not happy with me for being
late to a first date,” he recalls.
Things seem to have worked out. Within
a year and a half, as O’Brien was getting
ready to graduate in 1993, they were
married. Theirs is a family filled with
Suffolk connections.
Patricia earned a Suffolk MBA, prior to
meeting Tom in 1991, and went on to have
a successful career as an executive at
Verizon. His brother, John D. O’Brien, Jr.,
preceded him at Suffolk Law, earning his
juris doctorate in 1985, before going on
to serve four terms in the Massachusetts
State Senate. O’Brien’s father, John,
completed Suffolk’s Executive MBA
program, graduating in 1981.
Their shared Suffolk experience has
become a point of pride for the O’Brien
family.
“Suffolk for us has really been a
wonderful place in which you can
pursue an advanced degree while
continuing to work or continuing to find
your way in the world,” says O’Brien,
now one of Boston’s leading real estate
developers. “Suffolk is a school that’s
both located in the heart of Boston, but
also, in many respects, it is the heart of
Boston. When you look around through
the ranks of business and the ranks of
government, the most senior positions,
and the most respected positions in the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts … they
are often held by Suffolk graduates.”
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�THE WORLD
is their
GALLERY
STUDENTS, FACULTY,
AND ALUMNI TAKE
THEIR ART INTO THE
PUBLIC REALM
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P
ublic art is hardly a new concept. Monuments to civic
leaders, athletes, and religious figures date back to
antiquity, with much surviving statuary now moved
from the public square into museum collections worldwide.
Yet more than statues survive.
While graffiti may seem like a modern approach to
public art, there is ancient gang tagging on Egyptian
pyramids, erotica in Greece, and political inscriptions in
China. And for centuries people have marveled at sites
like Stonehenge, which is fascinating to behold while
offering clues to the history of a place and time.
In a similar fashion Suffolk faculty, students, and
alumni are leaving their own imprints on the world
around them by creating and analyzing public art in
Boston and beyond.
�Photograph: Michael J. Clarke
Suffolk professors and students collaborate
with the Downtown Boston Business
Improvement District to create Unique to
Boston Living Images along Washington
Street storefronts.
STUDENT WORK ENLIVENS STREETSCAPE
How to bring artwork out of the gallery and into the community
is something many artists think about, according to Art Professor
Linda Brown, who collaborated with the Downtown Boston Business
Improvement District to bring larger-than-life portraits to an empty
storefront near Suffolk’s downtown campus. “Suffolk students are
learning this concept from day one.”
Art Professors Susan Nichter and Ilona Anderson joined Brown’s
effort through a skills-based assignment that had students
photographing and interviewing owners and employees of the
small businesses lining Bromfield Street, where the photos later
appeared.
“I love that the real-world experience is tied to thinking about
visual literacy,” says Nichter, who has another student public art
project on the drawing board based on the theme Unique to Boston,
Living Images. It will feature moving images in four bays of a
Washington Street storefront.
“To have something out in the world, to see it be accepted and
used—loved, even—provides some of the best joy available,” says Caio
Cassarino, Class of 2021, whose black-and-white portrait of Farid
Goljamali is part of the photo collage opposite the businessman’s
King Frame shop.
In addition to the thrill of having his work in the public realm,
Cassarino, a first-year student when he took part in the photo
project, says it was helpful for him to muster up the courage to
approach his subjects.
“Those interactions in a way helped me learn how to better be
part of my immediate world; a stepping-stone to improving my
social interaction,” says Cassarino, a graphic design major and arts
management minor.
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�Randall Thurston and
rendering of his artwork to
appear at the Massachusetts
Bay Transportation Authority
Lechmere Green Line station.
ELEVATING THE MUNDANE
An urban transit station might be the last place a commuter would expect to find reminders of
the natural world, but images of soaring birds and plant life will greet them when they enter the
new Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Lechmere Green Line station opening in 2021.
Silhouettes of birds in flight are embedded in the glass housing the station’s elevators, and
wayfinding signs include images inspired by the grasses and other life that once thrived on a
site now given over to a railbed and trolley cars.
“Public art, when done well, can be uplifting,” says Art Professor Randal Thurston,
who took into account a commuter’s experience and the site’s natural history in
creating the station’s artwork. Thurston’s design is inspired by the greenery of a river
that once flowed through the area, the tides, and the birds that migrate through in
patterns as predictable as the daily commute.
“I know what it’s like to spend 20 minutes looking at the station surroundings, so I
wanted to create something that people can come back to over and over again,” says
Thurston, who often commutes to Suffolk University through Lechmere.
For Thurston, creating art for a public space involves comprehensive research and
observation, the consideration of how people will interact with the artwork, computer
models, drawings—and flexibility. After his concept was chosen from among 100 artists’
bids, reconsideration of the transit project’s budget threatened the public art, though
eventually it was restored on a smaller scale.
“I learned the importance of adaptability in creativity,” he says in light of the T’s decision to
scale back from an enclosed glass-and-metal station to the open-air platform approaches and
signage of today.
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INSPIRATION FOR EMERGING ARTISTS
It was a slideshow of Thurston’s public artworks that
helped steer Elle DioGuardi, BFA ’15, to creating work in
public spaces.
“It was an ‘Aha, you can do that’ moment for me,” says
DioGuardi. “Public art is my favorite kind of art and the kind
I want to look at. Seeing his work and
listening to the thought process of a
person I know and trust and can ask
questions of provided inspiration.”
Having grown up in Chicago,
DioGuardi has seen the power of
public art and her preferred medium—
reflective material—through the
throngs that gather around Cloud
Gate by Anish Kapoor, nicknamed
“The Bean,” a monumental metallic
sculpture in busy Millennium Park.
“I love the way people are drawn to it,”
she says. “I always like to think of art in
terms of the viewer. That’s a huge part
of why I use a lot of reflective material.”
DioGuardi, who has furthered her
artistic vision through artist residencies in Iceland, Spain,
and Virginia, uses text and, often, reflections “to interrupt the
day-to-day and how we see a mirror, building, or landscape.”
Sometimes it takes subterfuge to put her work into the
public sphere.
“I like to do text on bathroom mirrors in public places,”
particularly in museums, which have well-designed
restrooms, says DioGuardi, who chuckles and adds: “Then I
can say I have work in a museum.”
ADDRESSING PROBLEMS VISUALLY
“I’m not an artist but enjoy and appreciate art,” says Ruth Prakasam,
whose first-year writing courses in fall 2019 focused on identifying
Boston problems and finding solutions based in public art.
To get more children interested in visiting Boston’s Museum of Fine
Arts, a group of students in Prakasam’s Mass. Art for the Public writing
class created a graphic novel with artist
John Singer Sargent as a character.
Other students who had played youth
sports wrote a grant for a series of artworks
celebrating neighborhood sports teams to “be
made by artists, but designed and imagined
by the children on the team,” according to
their proposal. And yet another created a
website showing where to discover art in
Boston—from dance to sculpture and more.
The class visited the Suffolk art gallery and
discussed the purpose of the University’s
exhibition space; they agreed that colleges
and universities should show support for art
by maintaining an art gallery or museum.
Smaller writing assignments sent students
into Boston neighborhoods to view artwork,
and readings and discussions centered on aspects of public art.
When Prakasam posed the question “What is art?” her students
suggested the definition of art should be broad, without borders or
boundaries.
“Art doesn’t have to be a Monet painting,” she says. “It doesn’t have to
be what I or their individual classmates think is art; it’s what the group
thinks is art.”
And, increasingly, the artworks that are capturing the public imagination
in Greater Boston and beyond originated within the Suffolk community.
While in residency
at Fish Factory
Creative Center
in Stöðvarfjörður,
Iceland, a remote
fishing village on
the east side of the
island, Elle DioGuardi
collaborated with
another resident to
create this polished
aluminum display
with a familiar
Magic 8 Ball saying.
Above DioGuardi
is pictured with an
installation which
she later displayed
over a waterfall.
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�ATHLETICS
AN ONGOING INVESTMENT IN ATHLETICS
RESULTS IN BIG WINS FOR STUDENT-ATHLETES
STORY BY NAT PANEK
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I
f one word can accurately sum up an indoor
track meet, it’s “distracting.” An announcer’s
voice booms from the public address system.
Athletes hurl heavy weights in the throwing
events—and themselves in the jumping events—
on the infield. The rising and falling cheers of
spectators echo throughout a cavernous arena.
All contribute to a sense of tumult, and all present
a challenge to an athlete attempting to focus on
performance.
This sort of commotion enveloped Emily Manfra,
BS ’20, during the 2019 NCAA Division III national
indoor track championships at the Reggie Lewis
Track and Athletic Center in Boston’s Roxbury
neighborhood. Manfra was competing in the mile
event against nine other runners. Her family was in
the stands, somewhere, urging her on.
But Manfra was focused. Her coach Will
Feldman, BS ’12, stood beside the track each time
she passed, calling out splits. And he was in her
head—she repeated his mantra to herself over and
over as she pounded down the track: Stay on the
outside. Don’t get boxed in.
“By the last lap, everyone was full-out sprinting,”
Manfra recalls. “I could see the girls in front, but
I didn’t know who was behind me, I really didn’t
think about it until I crossed. And then I was like,
‘Oh my god, I really did get fifth.’”
The significance of Manfra’s fifth-place finish
was that the first eight runners to cross the line
that day would be granted All-America status. The
further significance was that she would become
the first student-athlete named an All-American in
women’s indoor track and field at Suffolk University,
a program that was added in the 2016-17 season.
“When you see a studentathlete like Emily who has been
afforded the opportunity to
compete and excel in one of the
newly added programs, there is a
certain level of pride in knowing
all the people who helped make
this happen,” says Athletics
Director Cary McConnell. And
there are many.
The past five years have seen
some of the most momentous
changes in the history of Suffolk
University’s Athletics Department.
Chief among them is the addition
of six new varsity sports: men’s
and women’s track and field, both
indoor and outdoor; women’s
ice hockey; and women’s golf.
The University also has invested
heavily in its sports and fitness
facilities, both renovating old ones
and constructing or acquiring new
ones.
Suffolk secured home-field
advantage for its baseball, softball,
and soccer teams at East Boston
Memorial Stadium. Rams athletics
staffed up, hiring coaches for men’s
and women’s soccer and basketball,
as well as for the new track and field
teams and women’s ice hockey squad.
Two full-time assistant athletics
trainers joined the staff as well, to
help care for student-athletes, whose
numbers have jumped from 168 to
almost 300 in 2019.
That near-doubling of studentathletes points to another dividend
earned through investment in
athletics—students are being
drawn to attend Suffolk University
who might not have considered
it previously. And they’re coming
from farther afield than has been
the case in years past. “It’s really
increased our footprint in terms of
recruiting,” McConnell observes.
In the last five years, Suffolk’s Athletics Department has seen momentous changes, including the addition of six varsity sports,
such as women’s indoor track and field in which Emily Manfra, left, was named an All-American. Investments were also made in
new and renovated facilities, supported by brothers Larry, above, and Michael Smith.
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�“YES, ATHLETICS IS
ABOUT COMPETITION.
IT’S ABOUT LOVE OF
THE GAME, BUT IT
IS ALSO ABOUT THE
DEVELOPMENT OF
LEADERSHIP SKILLS
AND CONFIDENCE,
TEAM BUILDING,
AND SKILLS OF
COLLABORATION.”
—President Marisa Kelly
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His observation is illustrated by the experience of Taylor Wasylk, head coach of women’s
ice hockey. As she worked to put together her inaugural squad in 2017, she noted a geographic
draw from well beyond Suffolk’s traditional New England domain.
“Cary asked me, ‘How many kids do we have from Massachusetts?’” she recalls. “And I
told him, ‘Zero.’ He said, ‘Do we have a team?’ And I’m like, ‘Cary, yeah, we’ve got 24 kids!’”
Wasylk’s new team was enrolling from hometowns in Michigan, Wisconsin, Oregon, even
Canada. “His brain almost exploded,” Wasylk laughs.
There’s no doubt that a growing athletics program is broadening the University’s
recruitment reach, says Suffolk President Marisa Kelly. But Kelly says there’s something even
more fundamental at play. “This is one essential way that we are delivering on our mission,”
she says. “As a University we are committed to creating transformational opportunities for
our students. Yes, athletics is about competition. It’s about love of the game, but it is also
about the development of leadership skills and confidence, team building, and skills of
collaboration.”
Student-athletes also gain a greater sense of community in the center of Suffolk’s urban
campus, Kelly says. “That’s important to the overall social experience we provide to our
students.”
The belief in the transformational and community-building power of athletics is shared
by two of the University’s most generous alumni, Michael Smith, BSBA ’61 and Larry Smith,
BSBA ’65, brothers who in their own words, “bleed blue and gold.” Along with supporting the
wider University, including through scholarships, they have become steadily more involved
in boosting Rams athletics, starting with basketball—Larry’s sport when he was a Suffolk
undergraduate. The brothers donated funds for travel costs as well as new uniforms—a
change that, while modest at first glance, helped to cultivate a sense of pride on the team.
Their support for Suffolk athletics only grew from there. In 2016,
the Michael and Larry Smith Fitness Center opened in the Ridgeway
Building. Serving the greater Suffolk community, the new center was
�Photograph: Courtesy of Suffolk Athletics
an instant success, as it filled with students, staff,
and faculty eager to take advantage of top-of-theline spin bikes, elliptical machines, free weights,
and circuit training equipment.
In November 2017, the University announced
a $3 million gift from the Smith brothers, one of
the largest alumni gifts in the University’s history
and one that brought their total giving to more
than $5 million. That support funded an interior
renovation of the Ridgeway building that created a
new training room and offices, new locker rooms,
a varsity weight room, and a team film room. Giant
decals now cover the walls of the hallways, and
plush chairs in a lounge area are embroidered with
the Rams logo.
Blase Cormier, Class of 2021 has spent three
years as a Rams first baseman, long enough to
note a significant change brought about by the
renovations. “Now, you walk in on the (Ridgeway)
second floor and you see people from multiple
teams there just hanging out, doing homework,
talking to each other, eating lunch. It’s created more
community within the Athletics Department. That’s
been a huge contribution.”
When Emily Manfra enrolled at Suffolk, track and
field was not an offer—she initially ran on the crosscountry team. “I never thought I’d be running track
and field during my time here,” she says. By the time
she qualified for the NCAA indoor track and field
nationals in 2019 she was among the top runners in
the nation and had amassed a series of records and
honors that former coach Feldman calls “staggering.”
The team expansions enabled by the University’s
investment and the Smiths’ support opened new
opportunities for her to develop her individual
talent, she says, including a sub-5-minute mile.
Newly graduated, Manfra is now embarking on a PhD
program in nursing at Boston College.
As the Rams look ahead, events like the
coronavirus outbreak stand as vivid reminders
that some things can’t always be planned for. But
the community spirit rising from the University’s
investment in athletics makes a very real
difference in the resiliency of an institution when
that institution is tested by extraordinary events.
And they illustrate a compelling truth: The rise of
Ram Nation is the rise of the entire University.
Suffolk baseball players, from left, Zach
Aresty, Class of 2021; Rich Gilbride, Class of
2021; Bradley Logan Heckman, BS ’20; and
Tim Brigham, Class of 2021, after a March 13
matchup against Ursinus College.
IN UNSETTLING
TIMES, RAMS’
RESOLVE ONLY
STRENGTHENS
T
he end of competition came swiftly for Suffolk’s women’s softball
team last spring.
The Rams were training and playing games in Florida in March when,
boom, the season was over in the face of a growing coronavirus pandemic.
“We got back to Boston, and everybody was already gone,” says Head
Coach Jaclyn Davis. “It was very quick. It was like, ‘Let’s clean this up and
then pack your dorms up.’”
But that was not the end of spring athletic engagement at Suffolk. After
giving players about two weeks to breathe, the coaches stepped back
in. Knowing players were craving structure, athletics staff began to put
programs together to engage them. They connected with student-athletes
on fitness and conditioning, but also on their personal transitions and
academics. “We did team meetings. We did individual meetings,” Davis
says. “We talked about school. We talked about life and what’s next.”
Coaches collaborated across sports. They got creative and tried to keep it
fun. They organized a virtual trivia night where teams of athletes and coaches
competed. They put training programs together with enough variety to
keep it interesting—conditioning and strength training athletes could do in
their driveways, their basements, their garages. They incorporated elements
of competition because, well, athletes are competitive. “I guess it’s just the
nature of the beast, right?” Davis says. “That’s what we ask of them—to be
competitive people.”
In the end, athletics at Suffolk did not stop with the coronavirus pandemic.
In some ways, they became more important than ever before. Earlier this
summer, the Rams’ new athletic conference, the Commonwealth Coast
Conference (CCC), joined many other leagues in suspending intercollegiate
athletic competition for the fall. Despite that, Suffolk’s coaches will still be
working with student-athletes. Low contact sports, as defined by the NCAA,
such as golf, tennis and cross country, still expect to compete. Training and
appropriately adjusted practices are still planned for students that choose
to participate. And the support will be there, as well.
“It will be a different experience for student-athletes, but it will still be a very
valuable experience,” says Suffolk President Marisa Kelly.
In unsettling times, Kelly says the pivot to engaging athletes in practice
pods and virtual trainings, and the efforts to help them stay fit, connected,
and supporting each other are as important as anything that could have
happened on the field of play. —Greg Gatlin and Katy Ibsen
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�F
or Michael Smith, BSBA ’61, and
Larry Smith, BSBA ’65, brothers
who grew up without means in
Chelsea, Massachusetts, in the early
1960s, the opportunity to attend Suffolk
University changed their lives.
A basketball star at Chelsea High School,
Larry Smith met Charles Law, Suffolk’s
first athletics director, who saw potential
in the lanky, tenacious defender and
rebounder with a matching work ethic
off the court. Larry would get up at 5:30
a.m. and go to work as a window and
floor washer in Boston, then change into
his school clothes for classes at Chelsea
High, and then again for basketball
practice. Law was impressed and gave
Larry a full scholarship to attend the
University and play on the Suffolk team.
The cost of tuition back then: $600. “It
could have been $6 million,” Larry says.
“It wouldn’t have mattered. I just didn’t
have the money.”
For Larry, that scholarship was a lifechanging gesture of faith. Indeed, both
Larry and Michael say Suffolk gave
them an education and a grounding in
aspects of business that prepared them
for professional success. It helped them
grow. And most of all, they credit Suffolk
for taking a chance on two kids from
Chelsea, Massachusetts.
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“I
love
this
university,”
Michael,
overwhelmed with emotion, said at a
2018 ceremony naming the Michael S.
Smith and Larry E. Smith Residence Hall
in the brothers’ honor.
The Smiths’ story is in every way the
Suffolk story. Gleason Archer, the
University’s founder, had someone take
a chance on him, too. As the story goes,
in 1903 a Boston businessman, George
Frost, took an interest in helping Archer,
who aspired to become a lawyer. Frost
loaned Archer money to complete his
legal education. When Archer later tried
to repay the loan, Frost wouldn’t allow it,
asking only that Archer do the same for
others if he ever had the chance. In 1906,
Archer started the Suffolk School of Law
to provide the opportunity of education
to all capable students—paying it forward
before the term was even coined.
Over the years, the Smith brothers have
paid back Frost’s largesse and then
some. They’ve endowed scholarships for
students, including one in memory of their
Chelsea friend, Pvt. Sheldon R. Cohen,
who was killed in action in Vietnam. The
brothers subsidized uniform and travel
costs for Ram Nation teams, funded
a dining hall in the Samia Academic
Building, a new basketball court, and the
flagship Smith Fitness Center.
They have made some of the largest
Suffolk alumni contributions ever, with
more than $5 million in total giving.
That philanthropy has supported major
renovations of Suffolk’s athletics facilities
and improvements in student life. Both
brothers have been inducted into the
Suffolk University Athletics Hall of Fame
and Larry serves as a University trustee.
Inspired by legendary Suffolk Men’s
Basketball Coach and Athletics Director
Emeritus Jim Nelson, the Smiths founded
the new Athletics giving society, the
Coach Nelson Club, which honors Nelson
by enhancing competitive opportunities
and ensuring an excellent experience for
current and future student-athletes. Their
generosity is serving to elevate Suffolk
athletics, and it is building community
among students. Even the Suffolk Ramsbranded team bus was inspired by
Michael’s vision.
“We were raised to believe that if you
made it, you had an obligation to give
back,” the brothers have said.
Giving back. Paying it forward. Larry and
Michael Smith are proudly keeping that
tradition going strong.
Gleason Archer would be proud.
-Ben Hall
Photographs: Michael J. Clarke, Suffolk Archives, Michael J. Clarke
A REMARKABLE
LEGACY OF SUPPORT
Left: Brothers Michael Smith, BSBA ’61,
left, and Larry Smith, BSBA ’65, at the
reveal of the Ridgeway building that was
renovated with their support.
Above: A vintage photograph of Larry,
No. 21, with the Suffolk basketball team.
�VIRTUAL
OCT
19–24
2020
THE
SAVE
DATE
for a week of online events for alumni,
families, students, faculty, and staff.
Highlights include:
¼ evening with President Marisa Kelly
An
¼ special event honoring retired Sawyer Business
A
School Dean William O’Neill, Jr., JD ’74
¼
The 3rd Annual Celebration of Black Excellence
Plus: Rammy’s Virtual 5K, a Boston-themed Trivia
Night, Coffee & Conversation with Suffolk leaders,
virtual tours, and more!
Details to follow via email and social media.
To ensure that you receive our updates, send your
preferred email address to alumni@suffolk.edu.
Follow the Suffolk Alumni Association
facebook.com/suffolkalumni/
Celebrating
Dean Bill O’Neill
O
ver nearly two decades of leadership as dean,
William J. O’Neill, Jr. transformed the Sawyer
Business School by incorporating a global
perspective into its mission, giving students and graduates
a greater understanding of international business
practices, perspectives, and cultures. O’Neill came from
industry and knew firsthand the importance of preparing
graduates to compete in a global environment. Under his
leadership, the school focused on blending theory and
practice, so that academic insights could be used to solve
real business problems.
O’Neill stepped down as dean at the end of the 2019-20
academic year, leaving a legacy of excellence. Under his
leadership, the school established new majors and specialty
programs, including business analytics and business
economics programs, a Center for Entrepreneurship, an
undergraduate degree in Global Business Management,
global travel seminars, and international internships that
have broadened students’ horizons and enhanced their
career prospects. Today, the Sawyer Business School, under
the new leadership of Dean Amy Zeng, continues to deliver
relevant, experienced-based, and global business education
that is successfully preparing the leaders of tomorrow.
As dean, O’Neill loved engaging with students, faculty,
staff, and alumni, and in October they will get a chance
to return the favor. The University will honor O’Neill and
his many contributions in a virtual celebration on the
evening of Oct. 21. That event will include an “open mic”
opportunity for members of the Suffolk community,
including alumni, to share their appreciation. Please save
the date.
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�Well Wishes
Fall 2020
To the Class of 2020
Welcoming the
Class of 2020
to the Alumni
Community
Suffolk alumni reached out to
congratulate the Class of 2020, welcome
its members into their proud community,
and offer inspiration as they embark on
new journeys. Here is a sampling of their
messages of encouragement.
YOU DID IT.
While facing one of the toughest global
crises of our times, you managed to
complete your degree. YOU. DID. THAT.
Congratulations! Here’s to you, cheers!
—Lina Canon, BA ’13
Congratulations!
Your resiliency this past year should always be something you
remember and appreciate as you move forward. Never forget
to continue to keep your Suffolk connections strong! The
people you met during your time here will always continue to
support you no matter where you go or what you do.
—Sydney Fonseca, BSBA ’17, MBA ’19
DO WORK
GO OUT
& MAKE
THAT YOU
THE
LOVE & STAY WORLD A
TRUE TO YOUR BETTER
PASSION!
PLACE.
—Brittany Sullivan, BSBA ’12
—Benjamin Linares, BSBA ’16
CONGRATULATIONS!
Throughout your time at Suffolk, you
have all shown a level of perseverance and
commitment to excellence required to
navigate a host of unexpected challenges,
both locally and globally, culturally and
economically. Keep pushing boundaries
and leading through change!
—Joe Krause, EMBA ’13,
President of the SBS Board
The world may seem in chaos, but you are equipped
with the tools you need to not only see through the
challenges, you will surpass them!
I look forward to the Class of 2020
fulfilling their purpose and potential!
—Jenny Joseph-Hayle, MPA ’13,
Chair, Suffolk University Black Alumni Network
As president of the Law Alumni Board, I would like to congratulate you and formally welcome you to
the Suffolk alumni community! We are a proud and tight-knit group of fellow graduates. I encourage
you to seek out Suffolk alumni and lean on them for mentorship, networking and employment
opportunities. Good luck and again congratulations to you!
—Tim Wilkerson, JD ’03, President of Law Board
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�Well Wishes
Fall 2020
To the Class of 2020
Kindness
will take you
farther
than you’d
imagine.
You are the future leaders. You are graduating
during a time of uncertainty and uncharted,
very challenging circumstances. Yet you have
persevered and overcome the unexpected.
This experience has shaped you in ways
that most cannot fully appreciate.
You’ve graduated despite the odds,
and there is absolutely nothing
you are unable to achieve.
—Tamela Bailey, JD ’04
—Morgan Williams,
BSBA ’16, MBA ’18
You and your
classmates have
certainly been
through more than
your fair share
of frustration and
uncertainty this past
year. I congratulate you
on the completion of your
studies and encourage you
to be patient yet persistent
in the pursuit of your
career, whatever it may be.
Opportunities will arise.
Work hard, strive to learn
as much as you can, and you
will undoubtedly achieve
success. Best of luck!
KEEP GOING—
YOU HAVE
PLENTY LEFT
TO ACCOMPLISH!
—Sean Higgins, JD ’03
THIS YEAR HAS HAD ITS CHALLENGES ... BUT YOU ARE GRADUATING
FROM SUFFOLK EQUIPPED TO TAKE ON THOSE CHALLENGES.
We need new leaders and better leaders, and I am so excited to see the work
your classmates continue to do outside of the Suffolk walls. The Class of
2020 will be remembered forever. Welcome to the alumni of Suffolk!
Photographs Michael J. Clarke
—Bob Pace, JD ’85
CLASS OF 2020
WILL FOREVER
BE A BADGE
HONOR!
—Jim Dever, BSBA ’93
—Sorcha Rochford, MSPS ’14
Congratulations graduates.
You worked hard for the past few years, and you should be proud
of your accomplishments. Please know that you are well prepared
and ready to start your career. Be proud of your alma mater and be
sure to stay in touch with other alumni in your practice area and
students coming up behind you. Celebrate!
—Ken Gear, BSBA ’89, JD ’95
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SUFFOLK
UNIVERSITY
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THE FROST SOCIETY HONORS AND
THANKS THOSE WHO RECOGNIZE
SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY IN THEIR WILLS
AND TRUSTS, MAKE LIFE-INCOME
AGREEMENTS, OR NAME SUFFOLK
AS AN IRREVOCABLE BENEFICIARY
OF LIFE INSURANCE POLICIES OR
RETIREMENT-PLAN ASSETS.
To learn more about planned giving opportunities and benefits, please contact
Corian M. Branyan, BSBA ’11, Associate Director of Planned Giving, at 617-573-8456 or cmbranyan@suffolk.edu.
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Features
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In the Name of Justice
Students at Suffolk Law School are changing the juvenile
justice system one teen at a time.
BY MICHAEL BLANDING
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His Turn at Bat
In the battle of the sporting goods big leagues,
Rob Zeytoonian ’95, M.Ed. ’99 has established
himself as a real player. Now, this one-man team is ready
to grow—knock on wood.
BY KEN SHULMAN
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COVER STORY: Curtain Call
From stagehand to starring roles, Paul Benedict ’60
is wrapping up a 40–year acting career. What will he do
for an encore?
BY RENÉE GRAHAM
Departments
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RAMblings
A $2 million grant to ease anxieties... Surviving Survivor
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The Bottom Line
A Conversation with Sawyer Business School
Dean William O’Neill
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�[ Volume III, No. 1 ]
Suffolk
Vice President for Advancement
Kathryn Battillo
Executive Director, Alumni Association
Ellen S. Solomita
Executive Editor
James Wolken
Editor-In-Chief
Andy Levinsky
Art Director
Kaajal S. Asher
Contributing Editors
Kenneth Fonzi ’06
Thomas Gearty
Stephanie Gallagher
John Shaw
Ellen S. Solomita
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Staff Writer
Renée Graham
Contributing Writers
Michael Blanding
Dave Enders
Ken Shulman
Departments
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(CONT I NU E D)
Suffolk Time Capsule
A visit from a civil rights and anti-war icon
circa 1969
Alumni Association
A commencement to remember...a season
of alumni activities
Contributing Designers
Katie Fanara
Austin Bousley
Contributing Photographers
John Gillooly
Justin Knight
Copy Editor
Elizabeth Durant
Production Manager
John Shaw
Suffolk Alumni Magazine (ISSN 1556-8970) Copyright ©
2007 by Suffolk University, is published quarterly by Suffolk University, 8 Ashburton Place, Boston, MA 02108, in
conjunction with the Suffolk Alumni Association. Issues
are published in the Fall, Winter, Spring, and Summer, and
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Advancing Suffolk University
Communication technology entrepreneur
has the giving spirit...investing in the campus–
the cornerstone of a strong foundation
mailed to all known alumni of Suffolk University as part of
the benefit of their having graduated from the University.
The purposes of Suffolk Alumni Magazine are to report
news of Suffolk University and its alumni; provide a medium for the exchange of views concerning Suffolk University affairs; and in other ways provide editorial content
that relates to the shared and diverse experiences and
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Class Notes
Your news
interests of Suffolk University alumni. This publication is
guided by Suffolk’s principles of freedom of expression
and accepted standards of good taste. Opinions expressed are those of the signed contributors and do not
necessarily represent the opinions of the editors or the
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BackStory
Neil O’Callaghan BSBA ‘00 gets the last laugh
official position of Suffolk University. Application to mail
at non-profit periodical print rate pending at Boston, MA
and additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Please send
address change, Form 3579, to Suffolk University Alumni
Association, 8 Ashburton Place, Boston, MA 02108.
Cover photo by Steven Vote
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�Editor’s Note
Like a Catcher in the Rye
I have always found that mercy bears
richer fruits than strict justice.
–ABRAHAM LINCOLN
R
ecently, an administrator at a nearby
college favored me with lunch in
exchange for some editorial guidance. It seems his alumni magazine
was having trouble engaging readers, and there
was curiosity as to how SAM was able to cover
so many big subjects (the Iraq war, Katrina, the
environment) without stepping into a political
quagmire. The question was posed several times
and in different guises, each attempting to discover my secret.
While the compliment was flattering, the answer was much more prosaic: It isn’t sophisticated editorial judgment on my part as much
as this magazine’s editorial beat. That is, SAM
is fortunate to cover a university that has a long
track record of teaching toward the big issues of
its time. Being the only university in American
history to begin first as a law school, Suffolk’s
culture inherently leans toward the intersection
of social justice, education, public service, and
business. It is why so many alumni describe their
Suffolk education as “life transforming,” and why
“big” themes so often appear in our pages—the
current issue being no exception.
This issue SAM takes a fascinating look at
our Law School’s Juvenile Justice Center (JJC),
which was founded in 1998 with a grant from
the US Department of Justice, but today is sup-
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ported primarily by Suffolk funding.
The JJC’s mission is straightforward: provide high-quality representation for indigent
youth, while giving Suffolk law students real
world experience with the legal system. While
the JJC mission is straightforward, the work is
anything but.
Legal experts from both sides of the political
aisle agree America’s juvenile court system is overwrought. For the better part of a decade, tough
anti-crime political rhetoric, fueled by senseless
and tragic school shootings, (most notably Colombine High School), has led to zero-tolerance
policies that, no matter how well intentioned, end
up punishing the many for the sins of a few.
“Seventy percent of juvenile crime is non-violent,” says JJC Managing Director Lisa ThurauGray. “This gives society a wonderful opportunity
to help get these kids back on track.”
Thurau-Gray is the first to say that not all juveniles get a raw deal. “There are bad teens just like
there are bad adults,” says Thurau-Gray. “Violent
criminals should suffer the consequences of their
actions.” But she and her hardworking team have
also encountered many young people who, because of an unstable home life, just need an adult
to help them navigate adolescence, which is why
education and communication is also a big part
of the JJC’s work.
“As adults, we forget how stressful a teenager’s
world can be,” Thurau-Gray says. “Peer acceptance, self-esteem issues, school, holding a job,
dating—these are big things for kids to handle
and life is a lot more complicated than when we
were young. Add to that a brush with the law and
suddenly a young person’s life can take a tragic
turn and appear shockingly bleak.”
Our story on the JJC (page 22) provides a rare,
behind-the-scenes look at a “big” issue, which is
par for the course with this alumni magazine.
...
And speaking of behind the scenes, you’ll notice that this issue of SAM is stylistically different than past issues. Led by SAM’s new editorin-chief, Andy Levinsky, and art director Kaajal
Asher, we’ve undertaken a redesign to make your
alumni magazine a more satisfying read.
Mr. Levinsky, an accomplished journalist who
has worked in both print and television, brings
to SAM a gift for producing compelling stories.
He also demonstrated a keen eye for talent when
he hired Ms. Asher, who enjoyed an award–winning career at both CXO Media and the Harvard
Business Review before joining Suffolk.
Another new star to join the SAM team is former Boston Globe reporter and columnist Renée
Graham. Ms. Graham, who enjoyed a stellar 18
year career at the Globe, wrote our cover story
this issue on Suffolk alumnus Paul Benedict
’60, star of countless Broadway productions but
known to most of us (despite his best efforts) as
Mr. Bentley from the TV sitcom The Jeffersons.
Since big ideas require big talent, I can safely
report that SAM is in very good shape.
JAMES WOLKEN, Executive Editor
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�“When I meet another Suffolk graduate, I know that we
have several beliefs in common. Hard work is rewarded,
opportunity is created, and all people matter. These
values are part of our shared “Suffolk DNA”.
Institutions are created by great individuals. Great
institutions are sustained by committed people.
This campaign is the best time for each of us to give
back to this great university.”
I believe in the
Power to Change.
I support Suffolk.
Nique Fajors ’89
Vice President, Marketing
Capcom Entertainment
Suffolk Campaign Supporter
We invite you to join us in building a future for Suffolk as astonishing as our past. To learn more about The Power to Change: The Campaign for Suffolk University,
visit www.suffolk.edu/giving. Or call the Suffolk University Office of Advancement at 617-573-8443.
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�Contributors
Scenic Suffolk
Michael Blanding (“In the Name of Justice,”
pg. 22) is an award-winning magazine writer
whose work has appeared in The Nation,
The New Republic, Boston Magazine, and
The Boston Globe.
Renée Graham (“Curtain Call,” pg. 36) is the
pop culture correspondent for Here and Now
on WBUR-FM, National Public Radio in Boston.
Graham has been a staff writer at the Miami
Herald, Syracuse Herald-Journal, and Boston
Globe. She has also written for Essence,
Sojourner, and Nieman Reports.
California–based artist Scott Laumann has
completed commissions for numerous clients
including Time, Rolling Stone, GQ, Arnold
Schwarzenegger, the Los Angeles Times, Dow
Jones, the Grammy Awards, Warner Brothers,
and Netscape. His paintings can be found in
galleries in the U.S. and abroad.
Photographs by Steven Vote, an award-
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SUFFOLK CAMPUS: ROOM WITH A VIEW The spire of the historic Park Street Church
(foreground) and Tremont Street skyline as seen by SAM staff photographer Tom Gearty from
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winning location photographer originally
from Sydney, Australia, have been featured in
American Photo, Popular Photography, PDN,
and Applied Arts. His work has been
recognized by Graphis Photo Annual.
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�Letters to the Editor
RE: THE SPEAKER SPEAKS
Salvatore DiMasi, JD’71, DPA ’05
Thank you for your profile of Speaker of
Massachusetts House of Representatives Salvatore
DiMasi. As an organization dedicated to making
affordable, quality health care available to all
Massachusetts residents, we deeply commend
Speaker DiMasi for his visionary leadership in
the passage of Chapter 58, our health reform
law. We at Health Care For All have seen how
this landmark legislation has helped so many
vulnerable residents, some of whom have been
without health insurance for a number of years.
Speaker DiMasi truly had their interest at heart
when drafting the legislation.
What impressed us most was how the Speaker
took the time to learn the policy backwards and
forwards. He understood all sides of the issue,
particularly how consumers would be impacted
by policy decisions.
Speaker DiMasi continues to stay involved in
the implementation of Chapter 58. He watches
the process closely to ensure it honors the original intent of health reform, providing comprehensive affordable and accessible health care to
everyone in the Commonwealth.
—John McDonough
Executive Director
Health Care For All
He’s known to speak softly and carry a big gavel. So how
will Salvatore DiMasi JD ’71, DPA ’05 adjust to the glare
of the spotlight created by a leadership shake-up on
Beacon Hill? Read his lips.
The Speaker
Speaks
By Michael Blanding
F
PHOTOGRAPHY BY KATHLEEN DOOHER
or political symbolism, you can’t do much better than Salvatore DiMasi’s
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childhood bedroom. The current Speaker of the Massachusetts House of
Representatives grew up in a cold-water flat in the North End, sharing a room
with three brothers (and a bed with one) and walking two blocks to a public
bathhouse for showers. But his tenement was also next door to the Old North
Church, an icon in our nation’s history that many Americans associate with Paul
Revere and the highest ideals of democracy.
For years growing up, DiMasi looked at the spire of the church as he drifted
off to sleep, incited the wrath of the vicar by bouncing rubber balls off its bricks,
and earned nickels with other kids reciting Longfellow’s “The Midnight Ride of
Paul Revere” for tourists. Decades later, when he climbed up to the venerable
wooden pulpit in 2005 for the annual lantern-lighting ceremony honoring
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I found the profile on Speaker DiMasi very welldone, especially the reporting on the Speaker’s
work that lead to obtaining passage of Chapter
58, the Commonwealth’s landmark health insurance reform statute.
—Brian Gilmore BS’69, MPA’’76
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RE: TRAIL BLAZER
Bob Ford MPA ‘97, JD ‘97
I first met Bob Ford about seven years ago while
I was Director of Conservation in the Town of
Boxford, where Bob was on the Planning Board
and very active in the local land trust (BTA/
BOLT). Bob made a big impression over the
phone with his deep, commanding voice and
passion for conservation. He made a bigger
impression by doggedly working to protect one
piece of land after another in spite of the inevitable challenges (scarce funding, political hurdles,
etc.). Bob’s achievements in Boxford loom large
(and ever larger), and I know he will play a key
role in conserving ecologically sensitive land in
the Sudbury Valley now that he is Director of
Land Protection for the Sudbury Valley Trustees.
You’ve come a long way Bob – keep going!
—Ken Pruitt
Executive Director
Massachusetts Association of
Conservation Commissions
want Chris and the Foundation’s generosity to
The Food Bank to be overlooked.
In honor of our 25th anniversary last year,
Chris and the Foundation awarded The Greater
Boston Food Bank $25,000 to be distributed
as $1,000 grants to 25 community hunger-relief agencies–among them food pantries, soup
kitchens and emergency shelters–in The Food
Bank’s network. These grants helped our member agencies provide the equivalent of more
than 52,000 meals.
The Spinazzola Foundation’s mission is to feed
hungry bodies and minds by supporting hunger
and homelessness relief and by funding culinary
scholarships. For the past 22 years it has fulfilled that mission and continues to do so. The
Foundation’s support helps The Greater Boston
Food Bank fulfill its mission to help end hunger
in eastern Massachusetts.
Chris has more than continued his father’s
legacy. He has honored it by overseeing the
Foundation with compassion, generosity, and
integrity.
—Catherine D’Amato
RE: A FULL PLATE
Chris Spinazzola BA ‘76
It goes without saying that for the past 22 years
the Anthony Spinazzola Foundation Gala has
been the premiere charitable event for the hospitality industry in Boston. Chris has afforded
those of us lucky enough to know his father the
opportunity to honor his legacy.
So too, Chris perpetuates Anthony’s ideals. It’s
quite obvious Chris inherited the “passion for
the restaurant business gene” from his father.
Quite admirably, Chris ensures that the Anthony
Spinazzola Foundation similarly influences others by cultivating the creative talents of those who
may not have otherwise had the opportunity.
I’m pleased Chris is being duly recognized for
his own stewardship and contribution to the restaurant industry.
—Roger Berkowitz
President & CEO, Legal Seafoods
In reading your pitch-perfect profile of Chris
Spinazzola in the spring 2007 issue of Suffolk
Alumni Magazine, I noticed that The Greater
Boston Food Bank was missing from the list of
organizations that receives support from the
Anthony Spinazzola Foundation. I would not
President & CEO, The Greater Boston Food Bank
Editor’s Note:
As SAM went to press, we learned that the
Anthony Spinazzola Foundation ceased operation on August 31st, 2007. In retrospect, perhaps
Chris Spinazzola ’76 was a victim of his own success. Who knew that a 1986 dinner organized by
friends to honor the late Boston Globe restaurant critic would draw more than 1,100 guests,
raise $100,000 to establish a namesake memorial scholarship fund for culinary education, and
become an annual event, much less one of the
nation’s premiere industry fundraisers? Nor did
Chris Spinazzola, a restaurateur, anticipate a second career building and overseeing a charitable
foundation. Yet the more than $4 million raised
by the Anthony Spinazzola Foundation since its
founding in 1992 has had such a major impact on
its beneficiaries (organizations which fight hunger and homelessness, the Grow Clinic of Boston
Medical Center, and culinary arts students in
Massachusetts) that it’s understandable why
Chris Spinazzola expressed such ambivalence
about its closure. It’s also clear why this family
man attributes his decision, in part, to a desire
to spend time with his wife Marjorie, who under-
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�went a bone marrow transplant. A fitting tribute
to Chris Spinazzola’s extraordinary generosity
would be support of One Family, a non-profit
organization dedicated to ending homelessness
among Massachusetts families which his wife ran
until last year.
whitewashing of Barnicle’s history. Apparently
Janet Cooke was unavailable.
As for Barnicle’s prediction of a strong comeback for newspapers...the late, great Bill Homer
would have kicked me out of his Intro to
Journalism class had I made such an absurd (and
unsubstantiated!) claim.
—Jim Scanlan, BSJ ‘87
Re: THE FOCUS OF LEADERSHIP
Dean Robert H. Smith
Thank you for your article entitled “The Focus
of Leadership” which highlighted the tenure of
Dean Robert H. Smith at the Law School. Since
becoming Dean in 1999, Bob Smith has led this
Law School in a very positive direction. With his
enthusiastic support of the admissions office in
terms of increases in scholarship funds and outreach efforts, we have been able to attract outstanding students to the Law School. These extraordinary men and women have helped to raise
the academic profile of the student community
as well as increase all types of diversity. We now
enroll students from all over the world and from
all walks of life. As a result, our students perform
well in and out of the classroom, compete “head
to head” with other Boston law school graduates
for jobs in top firms, and pass the bar at much
higher rates.
Bob Smith has been an outstanding CEO of
Suffolk University Law School. He has led by
example–always fair, supportive, inclusive, and
with the utmost integrity. He is admired by many
at Suffolk as well as the Boston academic and
legal community. We will miss his guidance and
leadership, but look forward to working with him
when he returns to the faculty in January.
RE: INSTITUTIONAL MEMORY
Professor Stanley Vogel’s Enduring
Suffolk Legacy
I just received my copy of the recent alumni
magazine (always a good read). I am compelled
to add my note of admiration for Prof. Stanley
M. Vogel to the wonderful article contributed by
Andy Levinsky. I was an English major at Suffolk
and was blessed (the best descriptive word I can
think of at the moment) to have been a student in
several classes taught by Dr. Vogel. My memories
of those classes are very vivid due in great part to
both the clarity of the presentation of the material and the caring attitude that were hallmarks
of Dr. Vogel’s teaching methods.
Suffolk
Alumni Magazine
> Net Gain
Environmental Lawyer
Peter Shelley’s Fish Tale
> Full Plate
Restaurateur/Philanthropist
Chris Spinazzola:
Thousands Served
> Also in This Issue:
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Travel Back to Suffolk Circa 1949
Got a Big Job Interview? Phone It In
One Graduate’s 40-Day Fast
The Speaker
Speaks
Sal DiMasi Captures the Hill
Spring 2007 $3.95
—Gail Ellis
Vol. II, No. 3
Dean of Law Admissions
Suffolk Law School
I have never before written a “letter to the editor,” but I had to after reading Levinsky’s article.
—John G. McNamara, BA ‘69, JD ‘72
As a graduate of Suffolk University, I became an
English teacher, tutor, and finally an educational
advocate for students with special needs. I was
pleased to read the recent article on my former
professor, Dr. Stanley Vogel, who influenced me
with his love of literature and by making certain
we knew everything about anything. His total
preparation for every class as well as his seriousness of purpose served as an excellent model
and I have always strived to put the same standards in place for myself and the young people
I teach. We have all benefited from Dr. Vogel’s
influence and we hope he knows how grateful
we shall always be.
—Esther Ross, BA ‘67
RE: THE BREADWINNER
Irene Cook EMBA ‘05
It was a pleasure to read the feature on Irene
Cook in your spring issue. She is the embodiment of what is best about our university: Suffolk
provided Irene with an opportunity, and she has
made the most of it.
As one of my students in the EMBA program,
Irene exhibited the intelligence, judgment, and
determination required for executive leadership. Just as important, Irene effuses a genuine
warmth and empathy for people, as evidenced
by her trademark hugs. These personal traits,
along with her abilities, will undoubtedly enable her to sustain her success as she pursues
her career goals.
Write to Us
—Robert E. Rosenthal, Ph.D.
Chair, Department of Communication and Journalism
RE: EXTRA! EXTRA! WORLD CLASS
JOURNALISTS DEBATE FUTURE OF NEWS
Suffolk Today
Had you described the keynote speaker of the
“Journalism in the Changing Media” conference
as “Disgraced plagiarist Mike Barnicle” instead of
“Boston media veteran Mike Barnicle,” I would
only have disagreed with your choice of keynoter.
Now I disagree with your choice and with your
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RE: SAM
Thank for the magazine! Great read. Would you
know by any chance know who I might be able to
contact in the Alumni Association if I wish to hire
a Suffolk attorney?
—AJ Joseph
E–mail letters to:
sam@suffolk.edu
Editor’s Note: contact Office of Career Development,
617-573-8148, lawcareerdev@suffolk.edu
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�SAM: You’ve been dean since 2001. Have you noticed a change in
the type of student who is applying?
Dean O’Neill: Yes, we are dealing with the Millennial student now. These
students are busy individuals who are very involved in their community.
They love to learn and are highly motivated to succeed. They are globally
focused, organized, creative, and technologically advanced. They’ve never
known a world without cell phones, computers, CDs, or DVDs.
SAM: Why do you think so many students are seeking a business
education today?
Dean O’Neill: I think they want a practical education that gets them
into the business world immediately upon graduation. Others are looking to start their own businesses and we have established the Center for
Entrepreneurial Studies to help these students. Regardless of their career path, our students learn to think critically, communicate effectively,
Dean O’Neill: No, generally today’s business student is socially conscious.
They also have very strong feelings about corporate responsibility. Many
choose to work in the non-profit, healthcare, or government sectors,
applying the skills they receive from a business degree. The new BSBA
curriculum has a strong focus on social responsibility and service and is
one of the central themes of this new curriculum. Employees need to be
encouraged to get out into the community—to be involved and understand the community better. They need to go beyond the four walls of
their offices and feel comfortable in the community with the individuals
who buy their products or services.
SAM: So even if they are bottom line focused, social
consciousness is now part of the bottom–line.
Dean O’Neill: Community involvement has always has been part of the
bottom line. It’s just that more people recognize it now.
In a wide ranging conversation with SAM, Sawyer Business School
Dean William J. O’Neill weighs in on such topics as a new curriculum for
the undergraduate program, the importance of globalization, and the
difference between “The Apprentice” and the real world.
embrace change, and network. Accepting change is very important for
business students. I’d like our students to become change agents.
SAM: You mentioned the new curriculum for the BSBA program
this fall. What prompted the changes?
SAM: You use the phrase “change agent,” and I know you
mentioned it in your presentation in May to the Dean’s Advisory
Board. That’s not a phrase you often hear associated with
business.
Dean O’Neill: The changing dynamics of the workplace. The business
world is demanding savvier employees with leadership skills, critical thinking, and an in-depth understanding of global business perspectives.
Our new curriculum focuses on leadership, innovation, networking,
knowledge, and service [LINKS]. The LINKS philosophy is interwoven
throughout our undergraduate and graduate curricula.
The new BSBA curriculum centers around six themes: globalization,
ethics and corporate social responsibility, diversity, leadership, teamwork,
and networking. Also, we are introducing business courses earlier in the
program during the student’s first and second years.
We’ve developed an online portfolio that serves as a repository of
knowledge for students to build and maintain throughout their Suffolk
careers. Students will be able to capture their entire undergraduate experience in their portfolio. They can post writing samples, video clips,
papers, case analyses, and reflective pieces about learning experiences
while traveling or completing internships. In the student’s third year they
can create a personal web page which will assist them with job recruitment by presenting themselves effectively to prospective employers.
Dean O’Neill: If a business doesn’t embrace change, the competition will
force them out of business. To be successful in business, you must embrace change. A business needs to continuously improve services to customers and their internal operations. Many businesses bring about societal changes with the technical changes they make. Take the way we listen
to music. The iPod has significantly changed the way people interact with
music just as the Walkman changed the dynamic of how people listened
to music in the ’80s. Applying new technologies is where businesses make
their greatest contribution to society as well as their profits.
SAM: Not to stereotype here, but students going into the
business world probably are fairly focused on the bottom line. So
when you start talking about giving back to the community, do
you start to see a lot of eye rolling?
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�Cohort experiences allow students to connect with their classmates
around specific topics. In their first year, students take a freshman course
which introduces them to the culture and diversity of Boston and the
Suffolk Community. As part of this course, students learn about the city
on the Boston Duck Tours. They later analyze a case study of Boston
Duck Tours in their Business Foundations class. During the fall semester,
the CEO of the Boston Duck Tours, Cindy Brown, will speak to students
about the challenges and opportunities of the company.
SAM: Do you actually have to change the MBA curriculum
corresponding to the bachelor’s in any way?
Dean O’Neill: No, faculty are continuously improving the MBA and
other graduate degree programs each year. Due to their prior business
experiences, the MBA student receives a more advanced level of knowledge and skills than the BSBA student. Also, the LINKS concept has been
interwoven in the MBA curriculum.
SAM: This year, you have a record number of full time faculty
coming on board. Presumably, you’re competing with many
different business schools for the same faculty. How do you go
about attracting them here?
Dean O’Neill: I think our Boston location, as well as our strong focus
on teaching and research, are significant factors. Our global mission is
also very important and a number of our faculty specialize in global business research. Half of our current faculty are international and represent
many diverse regions in the world.
SAM: Sawyer Business School now has its first endowed chair.
Do you think it will help retain faculty in the future?
Dean O’Neill: The Wall Street Journal is a valuable daily newspaper.
Rupert Murdoch has a reputation for sensationalizing news and therefore the future role of the Wall Street Journal under Murdoch’s ownership is uncertain.
SAM: What do you consider required reading material for
businesspeople?
Dean O’Neill: I read The Economist all the time. It provides first-rate
business, economic and government reporting about issues around the
world. The relationship between government and business is interconnected and The Economist provides an excellent overview of this
interdependence.
“Regardless of their career path, our
students learn to think critically,
communicate effectively, embrace
change, and network. Accepting
change is very important for business
students. I’d like our students to
become change agents. “
SAM: How do you feel about the emergence of corporate leaders
like Bill Gates and Warren Buffet as philanthropists?
SAM: A Suffolk graduate who has made an innovative
contribution is R.J. Valentine.
Dean O’Neill: The emergence of corporate philanthropists began at the
turn of the last century with the Rockefellers, Carnegies, and Mellons.
They gained great wealth for themselves and also established charitable
foundations, which are still with us today. They focused on improving
various elements of our society, in such areas as hospitals, educational
institutions, museums, and many other areas. Today’s corporate philanthropists are continuing that tradition, but are more directly involved in
the funding and monitoring the results of their contributions.
Dean O’Neill: R.J. is a very successful businessman who has been giving
SAM: Your take on The Apprentice?
Dean O’Neill: Yes, the Carol Sawyer Parks Endowed Chair will help us
attract and retain seasoned entrepreneurs and will assist us with funds
for academic research and grants. We are extremely appreciative to the
Sawyer family for their continuous generosity to the Business School.
back to his community for many years. In conversations with him about
how he would like to help the Business School, he came up with the
idea that he would sponsor eighty percent of a student’s tuition, provide
an internship, and personally mentor the student. Now to me this is the
perfect model, and I would love to replicate it with other alumni. This
model is very unique: a financial gift made personal through mentoring.
One of the Business School’s priorities for the coming year is finding
internships and mentors for our students that will help them get some
experience in a professional job while they are students.
SAM: A few general questions on the business landscape. Your
take on The Wall Street Journal sale to Rupert Murdoch...
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Dean O’Neill [laughs]: It’s entertainment. It isn’t the way the real business world operates. People are not fired because they failed the first time
in their decision making. Maybe after a series of failures, but not with
their first failure. There are some elements of the show that depict the
real business world, such as the intensity of business and the need to produce positive results and profits.
SAM: What do you consider to be the best business advice
you’ve ever heard?
Dean O’Neill: “Whatever you do, have a passion for what you are doing.” S
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�What if there was
a magic button that
instantly put you in
touch with thousands
of Suffolk Alumni?
{ Actually, there is. }
ENTER the ONLINE COMMUNITY
Does Suffolk’s on-line community work? Just
folk alumni in top positions in every industry throughout New
ask Dianne Grattan MBA ’02.
England,” says Diane. “And with the ‘opt-in’ option, I know it’s
“To do my job, I need to speak with leaders across industries—
okay to contact them.” Dianne says she is getting a great re-
healthcare, business, technology,” says Diane.
sponse from her fellow graduates.
How does she find those leaders? Through the Suffolk Alumni
Her success is just one example of how the Online Community
Association’s Online Community, which
can work for you. You can also get a permanent Suffolk e-mail
offers an ‘opt-in’ button for alumni inter-
address, create your own yellow page ad, find old friends, or
ested in being contacted by other Suffolk
make new connections.
alumni.
Whether you’ve just graduated or celebrating your 25th re-
“In the Online Community, you’ll find Suf-
union, the Suffolk Online Community will work for you!
The Online Community is free to all Suffolk alumni. Share in Suffolk’s strength by registering today via the Alumni Association website: www.suffolk.edu/alumni
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News on Campus and Beyond
STUDY ABROAD
TECHNOLOGY
Go East–Far East–Young Student
Can You Hear Me Now?
Suffolk is making the wireless connection in
a big way. This fall, 95 percent of the Boston
campus will be wireless, up from just five percent during the last academic year. The exponential leap comes at a time when students
are using laptops and other wireless devices
more than ever.
Members of Suffolk I.T. department sat
down with students and found that wireless was a key to fulfilling their technological
needs. Enterysys Networks of Andover, MA,
donated a large portion of the required equipment. Enterysys has also agreed to update
the network within the next 12 to 18 months
as needed. And for those all-night cramming
sessions, students can access a new, 24-hour
support center in case they encounter any
unexpected electronic nightmares.
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SUFFOLK STUDENTS can now include Vietnam and Japan to their ever-growing list of
countries where they can study abroad.
With the addition of Hoa Sen University in Ho Chi Minh City and Saigon Internation-
sity in Osaka, Japan, Suffolk now has an affiliation with more than 50 schools across the
globe—a far cry from the eight schools associated with the program when it began just five
years ago. Last year, more than 300 undergraduates and 50 graduates participated.
“We’re now getting calls from juniors in high school who are interested in studying
“We’re always
looking at new places to send more students, and I
expect the program to continue to grow.”
abroad,” said Study Abroad Program Director Youmna H. Hinnawa.
For more information about the program, go to www.suffolk.edu/studyabroad.
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ART CREDIT HERE
ILLUSTRATION TOP BY STEPHEN WEBSTER
al University in Vietnam, as well as Sophia University in Tokyo and Kansai Gaidai Univer-
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says
who
?
The C. Walsh also hosted a
live broadcast of National
Public Radio’s Says You! game
show in May.
ACADEMICS
College Unveils New Curriculum
T H E AT R E A R T S
From C. Walsh to
Off-Broadway
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The Theatre Department is singing a new
tune now that one of its productions is set to
make its off-Broadway debut.
A professional company, the Transport
Group Theatre, will produce Suffolk’s 2006
show Crossing Brooklyn (called Begin Again
during its Suffolk run) during its 2007-2008
season.
“To have this performed in New York City,
the center of the musical universe, is like getting a trophy,” remarked Theatre Department
Chair Marilyn Plotkins.
The musical, written by veteran composers
Laura Harrington and Jenny Giering, is a story
of love and renewal set against the backdrop of
the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Plotkins said it was a big enough coup when
the two women agreed to write for a univer-
T
he College of Arts and Sciences this fall will roll out what Dean Kenneth
S. Greenberg terms “the most significant curriculum change in the history of the College.”
The radically revamped curriculum includes new and more demanding courses,
more opportunity to connect theory with practice, and a better way for students
to adjust more quickly to college life.
“These changes preserve the best of the College’s old curriculum while introducing new elements that will make our offerings competitive with the best
liberal arts colleges in the country,” said Dean Greenberg, who led the four-year
review process that engaged both faculty and students.
The most apparent change is the conversion of courses from three credits to
four. According to Dean Greenberg, this will allow students more opportunity—
and faculty more time—to dig deeper into subject matter.
Incoming freshmen will also now select a faculty advisor for their first year,
based upon their choice of one of over 50 new Freshman Seminars. These broad-
sity theatre, since most amateur productions
ly-focused courses present an opportunity for freshmen to engage in critical think-
do not make it off campus. Now, with a profes-
ing and include such choices as “Poverty and Inequality,” “Philosophy of Art and
sional company producing the show, Suffolk
Beauty,” “Science in the Ancient World,” and “The Problem of Freedom.” Thanks to
jumps to the forefront of a growing movement
small class sizes, the seminars will enable advisors to get to know their students
to create and nurture musicals away from the
quickly and to guide them better during their crucial first year in college.
klieg lights of Broadway and its critics.
“This is the wave of the future,” predicted
Plotkins, “and it puts Suffolk on the map.”
A new requirement called the Extended Classroom Experience will ensure that
all students have an opportunity to connect theoretical with practical knowledge.
Students may choose to study abroad, complete an internship in the Congress or
the Statehouse, volunteer in museums and soup kitchens, or engage in an extensive assortment of other activities linking their classrooms to the outside world.
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ENVIRONMENT
Rams spring ahead to
successful season
A
Reduce, Reuse,
Reward
ll four of Suffolk’s spring sports qualified for post-season play, while a Suffolk
softball player was named player of the year by the Great Northeast Athletic
Conference (GNAC).
Baseball: Suffolk compiled a 23-17 record, going 11-3 in the GNAC, before bowing to Worces-
ter Polytechnic Institute in the finals. The team was led by junior first baseman Nick Martinho,
who hit .364 with six homers and 33 RBI, and junior outfielder Greg DeMarco, who batted .414
with two homers and 30 runs scored. The pair joined teammates Jeison King, Marc Exarhopoulos, Kevin Silva, Steve Durant, and Reid Jackson as GNAC all-conference picks.
Golf: Suffolk finished sixth in the first-ever GNAC-Alliance championship, as Jason Anderson
shot an 85, good for 17th overall. Eric Riffle shot an 88 and Jori Karstikko had a 91.
Men’s Tennis: Juniors Pedro Soares and Chris Delisi were selected to the GNAC first team.
Soares, who played No. 1 singles, went 4-0 in league play and 5-2 overall, and was undefeated in
doubles. Delisi was 5-0 in GNAC play, and 9-2 overall as the No. 2 singles player, while going 8-1
in doubles. The team finished second in the GNAC with a 4-1 record (8-3 overall) but lost in the
league semifinals.
Softball: Sophomore pitcher/infielder Jess Ferreira was named GNAC player of the year, as
AL GORE WOULD BE PROUD.
Suffolk’s recycling program has placed the
she followed up last year’s Rookie of the Year effort by posting a 12-15 record, a 3.94 ERA, and
University in the top half of colleges and univer-
striking out 181 batters. At the plate, Ferreira hit a robust .458 with six home runs, six triples, and
sities participating in Recycle Mania, a national
eight doubles, and ranked 51st nationally with a .777 slugging percentage. These stats earned
recycling competition.
her an honorable mention with the Division III All-New England team. The Rams went 15-22 overall and 10-12 in the league, good enough to make it into the GNAC playoffs in coach Vicki Schull’s
second and final season at the helm. However, the team was eliminated in the first round.
Since the summer of 2006, Suffolk has more
than tripled the amount of paper, glass, metal,
plastic, and cardboard recycled, going from 30
tons to over 95 tons, and has cut the amount it
throws away by almost 15 percent.
The University also formed several partnerships with organizations such as Extras for Creative Learning and Dump and Run, which reuse
items no longer needed on campus.
Campus Sustainability Coordinator Erica
Mattison MPA ’07 will continue her mission to
educate, expand, and enhance the recycling program this academic year. Mattison is developing
an energy management plan that she predicts
will lead to such improvements as more efficient
light bulbs, renovation of the heating and cooling systems for maximum energy efficiency, and
promotion of environmentally preferred purchasing methods.
Pedro Soares and Chris Delisi were GNAC first team doubles partners.
Go to www.suffolk.edu/recycling for more information.
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P O P C U LT U R E
Suffolk Alum a Survivor
COURTNEY YATES BA ’03 has survived work-
(Flying Dragon) team. The two opposing
ing at Logan Airport, a high-end hair salon,
teams will be marooned on separate islands
and historic homes in Salem, Massachusetts,
on Zhelin Lake in Jiangxi Province.
where she donned a period costume as an
“interpreter.”
Yates described herself in a video profile
as being the “anti-Survivor” contestant, add-
Now, she will try to survive shifting alli-
ing she had no set strategy on how to keep
ances, elaborate challenges, and a series of
from being voted off the show. “This whole
tribal council votes to win the $1 million first
thing is like a whim,” she said. “If the cards
place prize on Survivor: China. The hit CBS
go my way, great. If they don’t, whatever.”
television reality series began its 15th installment on September 20th at 8 p.m..
A website called BoDog.com has handicapped the 16 contestants, and Yates is tied
The Melrose native, who currently lives
for 10th with 13-1 odds of being the final
and works as a waitress in New York City,
survivor. Here at Suffolk, she’s the odds-on
will be one of the eight-person Fei Long
favorite.
HONORS
Annual SUMMA Pre-Commencement
Dinner Highlights Graduate Achievements
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of New Orleans, and was one of several for-
ments of every graduate. Some of
week before Hurricane Katrina devastated the
> Chanterelly
the more dramatic examples were highlighted
city and closed the university. Suffolk waived
year of her Suffolk experience at the Madrid
by President David J. Sargent JD ’54 on May 19
the tuition for Rialo and his fellow travelers,
campus before arriving in Boston. The daugh-
during the annual Commencement-eve dinner
enabling them to transfer to the Boston cam-
ter of a career diplomat, Chanterelly became
that introduces honorary degree recipients,
pus. Rialo lived with the family of a professor
fluent in six languages at Suffolk. She gradu-
and thanks the University’s generous benefac-
in the Sawyer Business School prior to his
ated summa cum laude from the College of
tors, SUMMA and Frost Society members. This
graduation.
Arts and Sciences and will pursue a PhD in
distinctive group included:
> Li Ghou Lei Riley, who fled to the United
economics.
>
he Class of 2007 had 1,672 great
will now be reunited with her extended family
stories to tell, reflecting the achieve-
mer Dakar students who arrived less than a
in China.
Dubois, who spent the first
States after seeing friends and college class-
Presenting these snapshots of graduates
mates shot in the 1989 Tiananmen Square
whose lives had been changed by Suffolk,
ity into a degree from Suffolk Law School, and
massacre. Riley overcame polio to earn a
President Sargent assured the audience that
a career representing the handicapped for
master’s degree in the States, working full
“they, in turn, will change the lives of count-
the Boston Greater Legal Service Agency.
time and raising two young daughters as a
less other people.”
> Vidal Rialo, who had originally transferred
single parent while attending Suffolk Law at
from Suffolk’s Dakar campus to the University
18
Robin Powell, who channeled her con-
cern at unfair treatment based on her disabil-
night. She graduated on the Dean’s List, and
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SOCIAL CHANGE
Giving with their Heart and S.O.U.L.S.
There’s more to an education than sitting in a
in the upcoming Colleges of Distinction service
classroom. That’s where Suffolk’s Organization
learning guidebook.
for Uplifting Lives through Service, or S.O.U.L.S.,
comes in.
a great way for them to do it.”
Some of the center’s projects include assist-
“It’s a nice recognition, and it validates what
ing the needy and victims of weather-related
we are trying to do,” said Carolina Garcia, the
tragedies during Alternative Spring Break, work-
In recognition of the curriculum-based service
center’s director, who noted that 21 classes in-
ing at local food pantries, and mentoring at-risk
learning opportunities and initiatives to promote
cluded a service learning component last year—
preschool children.
social change that the University has developed
up from six classes just two years earlier. “Stu-
over the past ten years, Suffolk will be included
dents learn best through experience, and this is
For more information, go to www.suffolk.
edu/campuslife/139.html.
RESEARCH
Professor Anxious to Begin
$2 Million Study
A
Associate Professor of Psychology Susan Orsillo hopes to use a $2 million, fiveyear grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to show how people
can overcome their anxieties.
Orsillo and fellow researcher Liz Roemer of the University of Massachusetts-
Boston have been developing their treatment, called acceptance-based behavior
therapy, for the past seven years. According to Orsillo, generalized anxiety disorder is among the most difficult types of anxiety disorders to treat.
The researchers will follow a diverse group of random clients over a nine-
month period and compare acceptance-based therapy to the more established
treatment called applied relaxation.
“There is growing interest in integrating mindfulness into psychotherapy,”
Orsillo said, noting that nearly 75 percent of clients using their treatment
method have seen marked improvement. “Our findings to date have been very
promising.”
Once the grant is completed, the pair plans to disseminate their findings to
clinicians in the field.
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ROBOTIC REWARDS: Under the guidance of Associate Professors Craig Christensen and Mostapha Ziad, Suffolk engineering
students placed first and third at the annual Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers robotic competition this past spring. The tenmember team created an autonomous robot that used ultrasonic sensors to “see” the walls and get to the middle of a grid maze.
MUSSELING OUT SCALLOPS: Care for a side of mussels with your order? Associate Professor of Biology Thomas Trott has
found that if the intense dredging needed to harvest scallops continues, mussels may overtake scallops in Cobscook Bay, ME.
Downeast Magazine plans a report on Trott’s research, which was conducted at Suffolk’s R.S. Friedman Field Station on the bay.
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KUDOS
MONEY
Retail Discounts?
Advantage:
Suffolk Students
T
Suffolk Law Reaches Top Tier of U.S. News survey
In the rapidly-expanding field of health and biomedical law, Suffolk is a rising star.
The Law School was recently ranked 17th nationally by U.S. News & World Report,
based upon a fall 2006 survey of law professors. Suffolk has had a health law concentration for about a decade.
wo distinctions of life in Boston
“This is a wonderful recognition for the health law concentration and for the speak-
include the high cost of living
er series, law journal, advanced legal studies programs, and other activities that have
and the profusion of students.
gained the attention of the academic community,” noted former Law School Dean
Yet scholars attending Suffolk can take
Robert H. Smith.
advantage of a special program to keep
their costs under control.
Student Advantage allows students to
use their ID as a discount card at more
COMMUNITY SERVICE
than 20,000 businesses nationwide, at
the price of $45 for four years. The local
list includes restaurants such as Fajitas
& Ritas, D’Angelo’s, Dominos, and Fire +
Ice, retailers like Foot Locker and Urban
Outfitters, and entertainment attractions
such as the New England Aquarium, AMC
Boston, and The Comedy Connection.
“That is awesome,” said junior Charlie
Latham of the program that is entering
its second year on campus. “They offer
Suffolk Senior Gives Kids a Jumpstart
S
SHARI KURTZMAN IS LEARNING THE BUSINESS OF CARING.
The senior Sawyer Business School student recently won the American Eagle Outfitters’
Spirit of Service Award for her work through Jumpstart-Boston, a national early education
organization that serves children in the neighborhoods of Roxbury and Dorchester.
Kurtzman was one of five students awarded $5,000 during a June ceremo-
ny in Los Angeles. She was selected from Jumpstart’s national network
of 3,000 college students, based upon a thorough application and review process. During her first three years, she has offered guidance
to her fellow Suffolk students and helped research new means of
reaching more preschool children. Not one to rest on her laurels,
so many great discounts.”
Venus Williams BS ’00, manager of Campus Card Systems, says Suffolk is also looking into a program where an ID card can
double as a debit card, so parents can
help manage—or at least control—their
this year Kurtzman will help lead the 40 Suffolk students who
participate in the program.
“I came to Suffolk not really knowing what I wanted from a
college,” Kurtzman said. “Through Jumpstart I have found a passion and drive I had never known. Now I just run with it and I’m
excited to see where it will lead.”
offspring’s spending.
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HAIL TO THE CHIEF: Provost Patricia Maguire Meservey was chosen to become president of Salem State College, effective
August 1, 2007. Meservey, who promoted faculty scholarship and strategic planning in the academic and administrative realms,
joined Suffolk in 2004.
A GOOD PERCENTAGE: Suffolk students took home five of 13 awards at the 18th annual National Association of Black
Accountants award reception this past spring. Nancy Douyon received $10,000, Kerlin Aristilde and Hugette Konate were awarded
$2,500 apiece, Aicha Belemkoabga received $1,000, and Eric Compaore garnered the Outstanding New Student award.
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Sponsors To Date:
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�Practice Makes Perfect
Defending youth for Suffolk’s Juvenile
Justice Center, Megan Bayer JD ’07
‘learned by doing.’ Today, she applies
the experience to municipal law.
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�By M I C H AE L B LANDING
In
the
name
of
WHY ARE SUFFOLK LAW
SCHOOL STUDENTS
REPRESENTING YOUNG
CLIENTS OVERLOOKED
BY THE SYSTEM?
Justice
P H O T O G R A P H Y B Y L E A H FA S T E N
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�t’s an early spring morning, and in a few minutes,
Suffolk Law School student Megan Bayer will be standing before a judge on behalf of a teenager accused of
trespassing. The trouble is, she has yet to see a police
report or a complaint. As she hurries through the courtroom gallery, Bayer knows her advocacy before the
judge could mean the difference between dismissal,
probation, or even juvenile detention for “Jamal,” one of
a dozen juveniles (names changed for confidentiality)
crowding the hallway outside of the courtroom at the
Edward Brooke Courthouse in Boston.
Bayer’s client, a 15-year-old in a black hoodie, towers
over the petite law student. The district attorney reads
the charges, alleging Jamal had been hanging around
on the steps of the school with another student who had recently been
expelled. When police told them to leave, the DA says, Jamal and his
friend allegedly walked around to the bleachers in back of the school
and mouthed off to the cop before they were arrested.
Bypassing Bayer, Judge Terry Craven asks Jamal’s mother, who is sitting in the front row, what she thinks. “He’s respectful except when he
feels like I’m always on him,” she replies. The judge shoots back: “Of
course you are always on him. You are his mother.”
Bayer stands on tiptoe to whisper in her client’s ear, then turns to address the judge. “Your Honor, the district attorney offered a deal we are
interested in taking at this time,” she says. In a strong voice, she spells
out the details of a plea bargain she’d been able to work out on the fly
before the case was called. She says Jamal will plead “no contest”—a less
harsh sentence than “guilty”—in return for a sentence of ten hours of
community service.
Judge Craven accepts—under one condition. Before she’ll dismiss the
charges, she motions to Jamal’s sweatshirt, which has a picture of Al
Pacino on the front. “If memory serves, that picture is from the movie
Scarface that glorifies the sale of drugs and violence,” she says, turning
back to the boy’s mother. “Upon returning home, he is to give you that
sweatshirt and never wear it again.”
“I’ll cut it up,” she promises.
“You’re all set, Jamal,” says Judge Craven.
So it goes in the overloaded juvenile court system, where decisions
shaping the future of teenagers are made in the span of a few minutes.
In this heated environment, students like Megan with the Juvenile Justice Center (JJC)—now in its eighth year at Suffolk—play a vital role in
ensuring that the cash-strapped system works the way it should. At the
same time, they obtain a crash course in how justice really works for
kids on the margins of society, getting a first-hand look at a system that
(because of privacy restrictions) few get a chance to see.
Every Wednesday during the school year, nearly a dozen Suffolk students cram into a small antechamber of the courtroom, scrambling to
learn the details of cases that have come in from the previous night in
order to provide the best advocacy for their clients. “We are like ER
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According to
Massachusetts
state law, “they
shall be treated,
not as criminals,
but as children
in need of aid,
encouragement,
and guidance.
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�Tipping the Scales of Justice
Juvenile Justice Center Managing
Director Lisa Thurau-Gray and her
staff empower youth with legal
information and representation.
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�doctors on call,” says Pierre Monette, one of two attorney advisors and
Associate Visiting Clinical Professors for the JJC. “This is our ER.” A big
man with a shaved head, Monette serves as on-the-spot counselor to the
Suffolk students, shuttling back and forth to confer with the court clerk,
anxious parents, and teenage clients. Later, Suffolk students refine
their techniques in debriefings with Monette and his fellow advisor,
attorney Ken King.
Unlike the adult system, the juvenile courts are intended to rehabilitate, not punish. According to Massachusetts state law, “they shall be
treated, not as criminals, but as children in need of aid, encouragement,
and guidance.” In practice, however, the system has become more punitive since the 1990s. “Most of the kids who come in here are not hardcore criminals,” says Monette. Rather, they are brought in on trespassing
or minor drug offenses. Once in the system, though, they are often set
up to fail, with onerous probation requirements instead of programs to
keep them out of trouble. A few missed appointments or broken curfews
and they are quickly ratcheted up to jail time. “There is a belief from
some that the only remedy is to lock them up,” says Monette. “I don’t see
that as a means to help.”
This is where the Suffolk students come in, serving as a check on the
system by upholding the rule of law. “The burden of proof is still on the
prosecutor,” says Monette. “I think a lot of times [prosecutors] think if
[juveniles] are there, they must have done something wrong. We have
to remind people, ‘Where is the evidence?’”
A ‘Holistic’ Approach
After Jamal steps down, another Suffolk Law student, Ronen Morris,
stands up next to Stephen, a tall boy wearing a beige collared shirt. The
prosecutor rattles off charges of disorderly conduct and resisting arrest
on the subway. “There is no mention of resisting arrest in the police
report,” interjects Morris. Judge Craven pores over the report, reading it aloud. “‘A large group of juveniles being loud and using profane
language,’” she says, unable to find anything about resisting arrest. “I’m
going to dismiss it without prejudice.”
Later, over sandwiches across from the courthouse, Morris vents his
frustration. “In class you learn what the police can do—here you learn
what the police do do,” he says. “You are not going up against the facts;
you are going up against the police officer. Oftentimes, the judge knows
these kids better than we do. It’s hard to break into that cycle sometimes.”
Student lawyers like Bayer and Morris help to even the odds and give
their juvenile clients a fair shake. Unlike many of the trial attorneys who
contract to represent indigent youth in the court, JJC has a case worker
and an education attorney on staff to assist clients with the services they
need to get back on track.
The program is a win-win for the court, says Judge Craven, training
students who may one day return knowing how to navigate the juvenile
justice system. “On a selfish level, they will be far more valuable to us if
they come back as litigators because they have been through it.”
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Some officers
even started to
open up about
difficulties they
were having
with their own
children.
– Lt. Detective Mark Gillespie,
MBTA Transit Police
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�The combination of energetic students and institutional support has
made JJC a national model for effectively representing youth. “The
work they do is indispensable,” says Patricia Puritz, director of the National Juvenile Defenders Center. “They are providing the kind of holistic representation that is extraordinarily unique and has been proven to
lead to better outcomes. There are not enough law schools around the
country that provide this level of support.”
While many cases are often pled out in court, others go to trial, requiring Suffolk students to spend hours conducting research and interviews. During her tenure, Bayer landed two substantial cases. The first
was a young man arrested during a major drug bust at a housing project
in Jamaica Plain. Bayer’s client, “Stephen,” was allegedly dealing a small
amount of marijuana on the property. Upon meeting him, she found out
that his mother was an addict, and that she had recently kicked him out
of the house, leaving him with few options. “He clearly had some tough
stuff going on,” she says.
The district attorney offered a plea deal but refused to show her client
the video evidence the state had against him. Bayer pushed for months
to see it. “I said we need to be able to show our client what he’s pleading guilty to,” says Bayer. Eventually, the DA relented and provided the
video, which turned out to have poor sound quality—making a trial a
gamble at best for the prosecution.
Tired after months in lockup, Stephen decided to plead guilty anyway.
Still, Bayer feels good that he was able to make an informed decision.
Over the course of the trial, Bayer visited Stephen several times in detention. “We talked about his behavior problems and encouraged him
to get good feedback in detention,” she says. “I hope he chooses to do
the right thing.”
In the other case, Bayer and fellow Suffolk student attorney Stephanie
Zwieyen represented “Kevin,” a 13-year-old boy accused of assault and
battery. The charges stemmed from a fight Kevin had with a nine-yearold boy, whom he allegedly pulled a knife on. When the two Suffolk
students interviewed their client, however, they found that he was shy
and soft-spoken, admitting to the fight but claiming he had only shown
the knife to the other boy earlier in the day.
The two hired a private investigator, who, in interviewing the victim’s
family, discovered that they didn’t want to see the Kevin punished. Nevertheless, the DA refused to offer a meaningful plea deal, and the Suffolk students counseled their client to take the case to trial. In preparation, they solicited one of Kevin’s teachers to write a letter explaining
that he was a good kid who was rarely in trouble in school. The trial
strategy paid off when the attorneys appeared in court for a pre-trial
hearing and the victim failed to show up. A new prosecutor who had
been assigned to the case offered a plea of six months probation with
anger-management therapy.
“We were very happy,” says Bayer. “It took a while, but the judge eventually agreed.”
For teenagers with few positive adult role models, the experience of
having a dedicated advocate to defend them can be life-changing. “It
makes a huge difference to a lot of these clients to feel like someone
stood up for them,” says managing director Lisa Thurau-Gray, who runs
the JJC program.
A Breakthrough Case
In addition to representing clients in the courtroom, the Center also
works in the community to help young people avoid the system in the
first place. Its most successful intervention was with the Massachusetts
Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) Transit Police. In the late 1990s,
the MBTA implemented a zero-tolerance policy regarding rowdiness on
the subway, resulting in a rash of arrests. “You had judges throwing out
cases at the speed of light,” says Thurau-Gray, sitting behind her desk in
a cramped office in downtown Boston.
In 1999, Thurau-Gray hit the media to detail harassment claims, hoping to negotiate a settlement. Transit cops who secretly disapproved of
the zero-tolerance policy began leaking information, leading to more
damaging media reports. Following a legislative hearing in 2001, the
MBTA suspended its policy and the police chief ’s contract was not
renewed. The JJC, which had represented over 60 youth arrested by
MBTA police in two years, filed suit on behalf of 11 young people alleging violation of civil rights. The 2003 settlement included $5,550 for
each teen. Most importantly, police agreed to participate in trainings
with the JJC.
“We decided if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em,” says Lieutenant Detective Mark Gillespie, head of juvenile and investigative services for the
MBTA Transit Police. “Wherever there is change, there is resistance.”
Gillespie concedes that Thurau-Gray was “very much disliked by the officers” and credits her with great courage in confronting a hostile police
department.
Thurau-Gray set up focus groups with both officers and youth, and
spent hours on the MBTA platforms observing their interactions.
“There are certain officers who have ‘magic’ with kids and get them to
comply,” she says. “We wanted to deconstruct what makes them understand the youth so well.” She recalls watching one officer respond to a
fistfight that might have led a less-experienced officer to overreact. Instead, he walked quietly up to the two, put a hand on each of their shoulders and said “Friends, is this how we behave as ladies and gentlemen?”
Thurau-Gray started to realize that the best officers were the ones who
treated kids like kids—distracting them or defusing tension, rather than
confronting them head-on. “One of the things we tell officers is if kids
want respect, give them respect. It surprises them and puts them off
balance.”
The breakthrough for officers was when many of them realized that
much of what JJC taught was identical to the way they treated their own
kids at home. “I stood up there and said, ‘I have to tell my own child
fifteen times to do something,” Gillespie recalled. “‘So what makes you
think these kids are going to be any different?’ I heard from several officers afterwards that had an impact.” Some officers, he said, even started
to open up about difficulties they were having with their own children
who had been arrested, or problems during their own adolescence.
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�Gradually, the department changed its tactics to use more persuasion
and community outreach, relying on arrests as a last resort. Since JJC
filed suit six years ago, annual arrests of juveniles on the MBTA have
decreased by half.
The Center’s philosophy is one of shared responsibility, training police (recent departmental additions include Cambridge and Somerville)
and educating young people. When the JJC decided to distribute wallet-sized cards to hand out to youth detailing the consequences of getting arrested, officers saw such a valuable tool that the MBTA printed
100,000 copies. The Center also has offered programs to educate young
people about police and the courts (see sidebar, “Double Jeopardy”). The
ultimate goal is to reduce tension on both sides.
“What you have is a terrible climate of fear because of firearms,” says
Thurau-Gray. “The unpredictability creates a hypervigilance out there,
where the kids are so scared and mistrustful of police, and vice versa.”
Double
Jeopardy
An educational game helps JJC
Managing Director Lisa Thurau-Gray
show the added burden of youth in
the legal system
f you appear to be anywhere from 7 to 17,
the very first thing Lisa Thurau-Gray will do upon meeting
Looking at ‘The Bigger Issues’
Since their victory with the MBTA, the JJC has continued advocating
on a number of other fronts. At a recent Boston City Council hearing,
Thurau-Gray testified against a new Boston Housing Authority policy
on trespassing that would increase authorities’ power to arrest young
people in public housing. Additionally, JJC has been pushing for a proposed law that would purge juvenile CORI (Criminal Offense Record
Information) records from potential employers for minor offenses.
JJC’s advocacy work often overlaps with its court work. At City Hall,
Suffolk Law School student Phil Vicini bolstered Thurau-Gray’s testimony, describing his successful defense of a client charged with trespassing in a housing project. This spring, Lyslynn Lacoste, who enrolled
at Suffolk specifically to participate in the JJC program, accompanied
Thurau-Gray in her meetings with several legislators to advocate for the
CORI bill. A former youth worker, LaCoste plans to apply her education
to advocacy work upon graduation.
“I wanted to show them this isn’t just a bill–it’s affecting real people,”
says Lacoste. “If the supports were there for these children, they wouldn’t
be in the system they are in. You have to look beyond the criminal act to
the bigger issues involved.”
Reflecting on her experience with the JJC, Megan Bayer believes “the
whole ‘innocent until proven guilty’ [premise] is missing from the juvenile justice system. Some district attorneys and probation officers seem
to be difficult just to be difficult, and they can’t think about other ways
that we could work together to get the best resolution for the client.”
Following her graduation last spring, Bayer began practicing municipal law with the Boston firm of Kopelman and Paige. Though she may
never set foot in a juvenile criminal court again, the program provided a
unique and valuable perspective applicable to her clients today.
“It was definitely the best class I took,” she says. “It’s amazing how
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you is to hand you her business card, often followed by
a piece of candy. The age range represents the legal definition of “juvenile” in Massachusetts, an important distinction
for the 46–year–old Managing Director of Suffolk University’s
Juvenile Justice Center.
On this late spring afternoon, Thurau-Gray pulls into a parking lot in a gritty section of Boston’s Charlestown neighborhood
and reaches for the candy, cards, and an easel in the back of
her ’92 Honda. Thurau-Gray is a constant blur of activity, known
to shift, eat, and carry on a cellphone conversation simultaneously. “I generally close my eyes and hope [for the best] when I
get into her car,” is how JJC staff member Ken King puts it.
Exhausted from a morning of multi-tasking, Thurau-Gray
steels herself with a final swig of coffee before setting up in a
classroom at the youth service organization Mission Safe. She
will be playing host of “Juvenile Justice Jeopardy,” an educational game loosely based on the TV show. The concept was
developed by the Massachusetts Alliance on Teen Pregnancy
and adapted by the JJC to educate young people about the juvenile justice system.
Pre-teens and teenagers wander in randomly and restlessly.
Sugar does not seem like the answer but Thurau-Gray sets up
her prize trough of sweets and begins distributing her card to
the mystified group. “You can call me and we will file a com-
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�plaint if you’ve been mistreated by the police,” she explains.
Standing in front of the room in her seersucker suit and opentoed shoes, she looks more like a school principal than an attorney. Yet the moment she begins, Thurau-Gray morphs into a
hybrid of motivational speaker and stand-up comic.
“I am going to talk about sex now because you’re all getting
surprising to learn that both of her parents were teachers, or
that her career choice was influenced by them, albeit in unexpected ways.
“My mother survived the Holocaust as a child,” she says. “The
thought of her being completely vulnerable and unprotected and
a target of adults probably explains a large part of my psyche.”
bored,” she says, launching into a scenario in which a 16–year–old
Following undergraduate and graduate degrees in anthropol-
boy and a 15–year–old girl are having a consensual relationship.
ogy from Barnard College and Columbia University and a law
The question is whether he can be charged with statutory rape.
degree from Yeshiva University, Thurau-Gray directed the Na-
Following discussion and role plays, Thurau-Gray explains that
tional Committee for Public Education and Religious Liberties,
because “he is not underage and she is, he could be charged.”
an advocacy organization promoting the separation of church
Other topics have a similarly incendiary potential. Thurau-
and state in public schools. She came to Boston in 1999 as Spe-
Gray uses the 1989 Central Park jogger case to illustrate per-
cial Projects Director for Juvenile Justice Center. The following
ception vs. reality on crime and racial inequities in the justice
year, she added the role of Director for New England Juvenile
system. Such candor has not always endeared her to authori-
Defender Center to her responsibilities before becoming Man-
ties. Thurau-Gray recalls one presentation in which a program
aging Director of the JJC in 2004.
director pulled a fire alarm to get her to stop speaking after she
“I became a lawyer so I could threaten people more menac-
questioned a claim of probable cause based on the color of a
ingly,” Thurau-Gray quips. “You threaten someone with a report
youth’s pants. Yet as frank as her presentations are, it’s difficult
or some research and they just snicker. You threaten them with
to discern any agenda in Thurau-Gray’s message to youth. On
a lawsuit and they pay more attention.”
the one hand, she warns that “all of you are at risk, not because
Following an animated conversation, Thurau-Gray debriefs
you’ve done anything wrong necessarily but because, if you’re
her audience. “Did I tell you anything that surprised you and if
a kid of color living in Boston, your chances of getting stopped
so, what was it?,” she asks. “Everything,” a boy replies, passing
and pat-frisked by a police officer are very high.” On the other,
the candy around as his friends file out. Another wants to know
she counsels kids who resist arrest in the role play, “You must
when she is coming back. After the presentation, Thurau-Gray ac-
never act like that, ever.” While she advises young people never
knowledges the thoughtful and in some cases, incredibly sophis-
to say a word to police without a parent, guardian, or lawyer
ticated responses, yet she seems resigned to certain limitations
present, she also reminds them there are “good police officers
of the format. “In spite of distributing my cards liberally, I rarely
who do not like to arrest kids at all” and are just looking for
hear from young people after a [presentation],” she shrugs.
mutual respect.
As if on cue, a girl who has been waiting for the room to clear
Balance aside, there are seemingly no questions Thurau-
steps forward. During the presentation, she was loud, border-
Gray won’t ask—or answer. One girl wonders aloud whether
ing on disruptive, but now she is barely audible. The girl asks
it’s actually possible to request a new attorney. Another asks
if she completes a six-month period without incident whether
what pleading the Fifth really means. Thurau-Gray quizzes the
she can escape her record of court involvement. Thurau-Gray
group on their understanding of terms like “probable cause”
answers her question, invites her to call, and offers a piece of
and the “right to remain silent.” Watching her banter, it’s not
candy for the road.
– ANDY LEVINSKY
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�Can One–Man Team Rob Zeytoonian ’95
Make it in the Sporting Goods Big Leagues?
His Turn at
ba
Rob Zeytoonian knows his baseball swing isn’t right. “You’re supposed to keep your weight like this,” he tells a visitor, his body
mass pitched slightly to the rear, the sample bat in his hands still
shrouded in its plastic cover. He’s alone in the stands of the Holy
Cross College baseball stadium in Worcester, Massachusetts. The
Worcester Tornadoes take the field below for batting practice,
the air popping with the sound of horsehide striking wood.
BY KEN SHULMAN
.
ILLUSTRATION BY SCOTT LAUMANN
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The path to our bright future: endowed chairs and professorships, funds for young scholars, and innovative centers of
excellence. As generations of Suffolk graduates have proven, success depends on capitalizing on your strengths. And at
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�“My weight was always too far forward,” says
Zeytoonian, balancing his five-foot-six frame. The
34-year-old former Suffolk University infielder
unwraps the white maple bat and settles into his
stance. His eyes widen. His shoulders rotate. His
hips pivot. The skin on his knuckles redden as the
shining wooden bat whips forward and snaps to a
stop over an imaginary home plate.
Zeytoonian pauses and looks at the bat that
bears his company name and logo, as if remembering that he’s no longer a baseball player and
coach, but the founder, CEO, CFO, president, lead
designer, quality-control specialist, sales manager,
bookkeeper, and sole employee of the Zorian Bat
Company, based in Cranston, Rhode Island. The
company is named after his paternal and maternal
families—Zeytoonian and Krikorian. Its clients
include minor league teams like the Tornadoes,
as well as Little League, college, and professional
baseball players.
Zeytoonian sets his bat against a rail to field a call
on his cell phone. It’s a minor league client—one of
250 pros who use Zorian Bats. “Z,” the player says,
“I need some lumber.” Zeytoonian promises to send
a batch of bats after the game. He slips his own bat
back into its cover, fidgeting with the worn Red Sox
cap atop his clean-shaven head.
“I always stepped too soon,” he says, slipping the
bat back into its cover.. “It kept me from being a
power hitter. I think I was always just a little too
eager at the plate.”
Eagerness may have hampered Zeytoonian’s
home run stroke, but that same quality has kept
him alive in a bruising business. As a one-man
outfit, Zorian must compete with sporting goods
heavyweights like Rawlings, Louisville Slugger,
and Hillerich and Bradsby, the official supplier for
Major League Baseball. Most minor league teams
have an official supplier as well. Zeytoonian has to
give players a reason to buy a Zorian bat when they can get one for free.
He goes to spring training in Florida in the winter, to high school tournaments in the spring, to Little League games in the evenings and semipro contests through the summer. He attends conventions and organizes
tournaments, working 12 to 14 hours a day since he started the company
in 2003. To some extent, he’s driven by competition. For Zeytoonian,
however, baseball is more than a business—it’s a part of his history.
“A Sense of Urgency”
Born in 1972 into a close Armenian-American family, Zeytoonian has
had a lifelong love affair with baseball since he was six years old, playing
on the sandlots of his native Arlington, Massachusetts. He went on to
high-school stardom in Weatherford, Oklahoma, followed by four years
of varsity ball at Suffolk. He wasn’t the most gifted athlete, but he was
undeniably determined.
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At Suffolk, Zeytoonian was the heart of the varsity baseball team, hitting leadoff and playing shortstop between 1992 and 1995. He spent
long hours in the gym and on the field, eventually bench-pressing twice
his weight and mastering every aspect of the game. His teammates still
remember his boundless passion and determination. “He was a ball of
energy,” says Tim Murray ’94, a corrections officer in Shirley, MA, and
former Suffolk catcher. “He wasn’t the biggest guy. He didn’t have the
most talent, but he made the most of everything he had. He never wanted to rest. And when things got tough, he would just try harder. He’s
doing that now with Zorian.”
After graduating with an English degree in 1995, Zeytoonian played
on a series of semi-professional teams while eking out a living as a
college baseball coach. In 1998, he returned to Suffolk to pursue a
master’s degree in higher education administration. The following
year, he accepted a job as assistant coach at the College of Wooster in
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�Wooster, Ohio, where he continued to play ball. “I played as hard as I
ever did,” he recalls, his eyes darting to follow a line drive a Tornadoes
player has sent sailing over the left-field fence. “That was well hit,” he
notes. The phone rings again, this time from a client on Cape Cod.
“Z” promises to be there in the morning. “Yeah,” he says, slipping the
phone back into his pocket. “I’d lose sleep when we lost. I was completely exhausted after every game, would grab a rake and rake the
foul lines just to wind down.”
At the end of the 2001 season, Zeytoonian left Ohio and returned
home to visit his family in Arlington. One afternoon, they received an
alarming phone call. Zeytoonian’s brother, Dan, a captain in the U.S.
Army, had been badly injured in a skydiving accident, and was in critical condition in a North Carolina hospital. The entire family flew down
to be at his bedside. “The surgeon came out and told us he’d done all he
could,” says Zeytoonian’s uncle Charlie Krikorian. “Now it was up to God
and Dan.”
Dan Zeytoonian pulled through and resumed his military career, but
the incident had a profound effect on Rob. “I was in bad shape,” he recalls, his eyes clouding over. “Dan and I were close. We were like twins.
And seeing him like that, the idea that I could lose him, it gave me a
sense of urgency. I knew this was it, this was my life. I couldn’t make any
more excuses. I started asking myself where I wanted to be, and I realized I was where I wanted to be, with my family, and in the game I loved.
I just needed to figure out another way to stay in baseball.”
day. I called Rob. He delivered. He’s earned our loyalty.”
Zeytoonian doesn’t have a detailed business plan. He runs his company the way he played ball—hard, at full throttle, with long drives, seemingly endless workdays, and whatever else it takes to stay in business.
A sale to a minor league player today. A contract with a Cape Cod team
tomorrow. A delivery of two bats to a Little League father who wants
his kid to swing wood instead of metal. While metal bats are used from
Little League through the college level, traditionalists like Zeytoonian
believe the game is best played with wood. “One thing I like about baseball is its purity,” says “Z.” “You get out what you put in. And wood is part
of that purity. With aluminum, it’s all about power. There’s no finesse.
The game is better, and harder, when it’s played with wood.”
Those who favor wood over aluminum also cite safety as a reason to
keep metal bats out of the pros. High school and college players might
appreciate the additional power of metal bats. But along with more
home runs, aluminum could produce potentially-lethal line drives in
the hands of a 220-pound hard-swinging pro. “Look at how hard my
players are hitting the ball with wood right now,” says Gedman. “Now
imagine the pros, who are two times as strong, swinging aluminum. If
they connect, they are liable to kill a pitcher or an infielder. There’s just
not enough time to react.”
“Z” oversees all aspects of the business. He even commissioned the logo from a Venezuelan artist in Miami he found through the phone book.
He makes his bats in American mills —another rarity in today’s global
“I knew I would be an entrepreneur. I knew it would be
baseball. And I knew I wanted it to be mine [and] that
no one would care about it the way I care about it.”
Taking Care of Business
Zeytoonian moved back to Massachusetts and squeezed out one final season on the diamond in 2002 as player-coach of the Lexington Blue Sox.
The following year, he founded Zorian. “I knew I would be an entrepreneur,” he says. “I knew it would be in baseball. And I knew I wanted it to
be mine–that no one would care about it the way I could care about it.”
The fledgling businessman had everything to learn, about choosing
maple and ash, about turning them into bats, and especially about running a company. “It’s not like baseball where you start out in little league,
and there are parents and coaches to help you learn from your mistakes,”
he observes. “In business, you start out in the big leagues.” Zeytoonian
got brushed back several times in his first two years. He was a complete
unknown. Competition with the majors was fierce. A trusted colleague
tried to copy his manufacturing process and steal his clients. But he
hung on and hustled, just like he did on the diamond. Little by little,
his efforts paid off. “He takes care of us,” says former Red Sox catcher
Rich Gedman, a 13-year major-league veteran and current manager of
the Worcester Tornadoes. “We met two years ago on a practice field in
Florida. He introduced himself, gave me his card. I didn’t think much of
it. But then last year we were out of bats and I had a game on the next
economy. And family is never far from his mind. Zorian bat model numbers are named after various relatives: CK for Uncle Charlie Krikorian,
DK for his cousin, Danielle. In 2004, Zorian’s first year in business, the
company sold just over 1,000 bats. Two years later, sales topped 5,000.
This year, he hopes to sell 10,000, perhaps even to hire some office or
sales help. He has twelve clients playing in the major leagues but because of licensing agreements, “Z” can’t use their names. Still, he’s tickled that his bats have made “the show.”
“We use the highest quality hardwoods, and we turn a good bat,” says
Zeytoonian. “But the reason we’re in business is because of the effort I
put in. It’s like when I played ball in high school. Most people couldn’t
wait to get out of practice. I never wanted them to end. I never want this
to end.” He starts to explain further but is interrupted again, this time
by the hitting coach from the visiting Atlantic City Surf. A few Surf players saw the Zorian bats the Tornadoes were swinging. They’d like to try
them out. “Z” talks price with him. The coach nods and says he can buy
bats for less. “Z” hands him the sample. “I’ll wait a few innings after his
guys have had a couple of hits with this,” he says knowingly. “Then I’ll
stop by the dugout to ask for it. It may not come to anything today. But
at least they’ll know who I am.” S
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AS HE CALLS IT A WRAP ON AN ACCLAIMED FOUR-DECADE
ACTING CAREER, PAUL BENEDICT ’60 WANTS TO BE REMEMBERED FOR
SOMETHING—ANYTHING—BESIDES HIS DEFINING ROLE.
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�It’s four hours
before Paul Benedict takes the stage for one of
his final performances in Harold Pinter’s acerbic No Man’s Land at the American Repertory
Theatre (ART) in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
He relaxes in an office overlooking Brattle
Street, where giddy Harvard University graduates, still in caps and gowns, pose for pictures,
hug classmates, and ponder their futures.
For the actor, it’s reminiscent of a similar
day 47 summers ago when he was 21 years old,
fresh out of college, and trying to decide what
to do with his life. With an English degree from
Suffolk University, Benedict thought he might
pursue a career in journalism. Then, while
traipsing through Boston’s Theater District, he
noticed a man smoking a cigarette in the doorway of the Charles Playhouse.
“I turned and walked over and said, ‘Hi, do
you need anybody?’ And he said, ‘Yeah, we need
a janitor. Fifteen bucks a week.’ And I said, ‘I’ll
take it,’” Benedict recalls with a laugh. “I walked
away and thought, ‘What the hell are you doing? You just worked like a dog to get yourself
through college.’ Then I thought, ‘Son of a gun—
is that what you had in mind all this time? Is
that what you really want?’ I knew this wasn’t
about being a janitor. This was about being in
the theater.”
MOVIN’ ON UP
From an inauspicious start sweeping floors in
one of Boston’s great theaters, Benedict fashioned a career spanning more than four decades on the stage, in films, and in television.
“I never studied acting, I just started doing
it,” says Benedict. “I became a janitor, and after a few months I was asked to build sets and
run the box office,” he remembers. “Eventually,
someone asked me to do a walk-on, and I never
really looked back.”
With his distinctive face—a remnant of the
rare disorder acromegaly, characterized by en-
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his youth—Benedict is perhaps best known for
his role as Harry Bentley, the genial, bemused
British neighbor on the long-running sitcom,
The Jeffersons. (For five years, he was also the
Number Painter on Sesame Street.) He has appeared in more than 50 films, including The
Goodbye Girl, Waiting for Guffman, and The
Addams Family.
Still, the veteran actor has garnered his most
distinguished roles in the theater, performing
works by Eugene O’Neill, Terrence McNally,
and the Nobel Prize-winning Pinter. No Man’s
Land, his tenth Pinter play, may also be Benedict’s last leading role on stage.
“I’m tired. I’m old,” the white-haired Benedict, 69, says when asked why he may give up
major stage roles. It’s a remarkably unvarnished
comment from someone who has spent decades
in an industry where many seem pathologically
addicted to facades and falsehoods. Instead,
Benedict is engaging, straightforward, and
quick with funny stories in which he is often the
piquant punch line.
“It’s not so much the performances as the rehearsals,” he says. “We can do eight or nine hours
a day, and at my age, you start to go gaga.”
In fact, Benedict was already considering retirement before taking the role of Hirst, an alcoholic writer, in No Man’s Land. He thought
his farewell to the stage would be as Ebenezer
Scrooge in an elaborate production of A Christmas Carol in Princeton, NJ, last December. It
took a call from an old friend to lure him back.
David Wheeler, who directed No Man’s Land,
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grit your teeth and smile,” he says with a shrug—
but it was a part he never wanted. Money, the
actor admits, is “what the series was about.”
Conceived by famed TV director Norman Lear,
The Jeffersons was a spin-off from his landmark
sitcom, All in the Family. Benedict met Lear
when he was cast in his first film, the raucous
1971 satire Cold Turkey. Four years later, Lear
wanted Benedict for the part of Bentley.
At the time, Benedict was living in Los Angeles, and he confesses, “I kind of needed a job.”
After much cajoling, Lear convinced Benedict
to take a part that came with a steady paycheck,
but little artistic satisfaction.
“I thought the thing was so bad, it didn’t have
a prayer of going more than two episodes, but
it went 11 seasons,” says Benedict, who left the
series as soon as his seven-year contract was fulfilled. Two years later, he returned for the series’
final two seasons after it “dawned on me that I
could really use that money.”
“Don’t get me wrong; it was a decent job with
a good cast and they were lovely people,” Benedict asserts. “But I just didn’t like doing a series,
damn it.”
The role also likely contributed to an incessant misconception about Benedict: many people believe he’s British.
“That’s because I’ve played so many goddamned Englishmen,” he says with a wry chuckle. “About five times a year someone will stop
me on the street and say”—and here Benedict
eases into a spot-on British accent—‘Hello, I’m
a fellow countryman of yours,’ and I’ll say, ‘No,
you’re not.’”
“
OFF INTO THE SUNSET
Though born in New Mexico, where Benedict’s
father was stationed in the U.S. Army, the actor
is essentially a Massachusetts native. His family moved there when Benedict was six months
old, and despite spending periods of time in
They
usually
had him in
small roles,
but he was
clearly
a master
talent.
“
approached Benedict about doing a reading of
the play for the ART’s leadership.
“I wanted to use Paul and Max [Wright,
Benedict’s co-star in the play] the same time
I chose the play. It was good literature, and I
thought those actors would be excited by the
project, so I got in touch with them,” Wheeler
says. “We did an act of the play, and it was those
actors’ performances, more than the play, that
really persuaded [ART ] to do it.”
A respected director credited with fostering
the early careers of such luminaries as Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino, and Dustin Hoffman,
Wheeler has known Benedict since 1963, when
he invited the then-fledgling actor to join the
Theatre Company of Boston.
“I was going around to see what the other
small theaters were doing, and also to raid
them of their talent,” says Wheeler, who also
gave Benedict his start as a director. “Paul was
clearly the most talented member of the Image
Theatre [in Boston]. They usually had him in
small roles, but he was clearly a master talent.”
Robert Brustein, founding director of the
ART and the Yale Repertory Theatre, remembers Benedict as “a legend” with the Theatre
Company of Boston, performing works by such
playwrights as Pinter, Edward Albee, and Bertholt Brecht.
“He has a quality of sympathy, a quality of
affection, depth, warmth, and intelligence that
you don’t often find in actors,” says Brustein, an
artist-in-residence at Suffolk, who has known
and worked with Benedict for more than 20
years.
“He brings to his roles a kind of comprehensive sense of the world as well as the character,”
he continues. “He gives it a kind of dimension
you don’t often find on the stage.”
One could also find such qualities in Benedict’s
portrayal of Harry Bentley, the affable United
Nations translator, on The Jeffersons. Benedict
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Just once,
I’d like
to play
an axe
murderer
or a
psychopath...I’d
be terrific
at it.
New York and Los Angeles for work, the Bay
State has always been home to this man with a
lifelong love of acting.
As a child, Benedict was enthralled by movies and was particularly fond of Casablanca,
Since You Went Away with Claudette Colbert
and Jennifer Jones, and later, the great works
of Billy Wilder, such as Sunset Boulevard and
Some Like It Hot.
“I had long-since decided I would write, and
thought I had no chance to be an actor,” Benedict says. “But the idea never went away. When
I was five or six and I saw the cowboys riding off
into the sunset, I thought, ‘That’s for me.’”
Back in the 1950s, Suffolk didn’t have the
extensive theater department the University
enjoys today. Benedict was introduced to acting
after joining a small drama club founded by students. He did some backstage work at first and
eventually began “acting a little in plays. That
was my first taste of it,” he explains.
Benedict recalls his years at Suffolk as “great,
and there were some wonderful professors
there.” He majored in English with a minor in
journalism—only to discover late in his senior
year there was no minor in journalism.
“When it was time to graduate, the dean called
me in and said ‘Mr. Benedict, you’ve written here
that your minor is journalism. We don’t give a
minor in journalism. How did this happen?’”
Benedict says. Two days before graduation, the
dean agreed to give Benedict his degree. “‘But,”
the dean told the relieved Benedict, “it will be
the only one.’”
“
ENCORE
Now, as Benedict contemplates retiring as an
actor, he’s looking forward to trying his hand at
writing (“before I can’t tell an A from a B,” he
jokes), as well as indulging his other interests.
He loves the Boston Red Sox, the New England
Patriots, and jazz, and describes himself as a
“small-time collector” of paintings.
Benedict, who lives on Martha’s Vineyard, also hopes to spend more time in Vermont, which
he anointed his “favorite state in the union since
they were the first to try to impeach George
Bush [the son], and good for them.”
Wherever his life takes him next, Benedict
has few regrets about his career. Sure, he wishes
he’d been considered for more dramatic roles: “I
remember saying to people, ‘Just once I’d like to
play an axe murderer or a psychopath. I’d love
it, I’d be terrific at it,’” he says. Still, he is proud
of his longevity in a notoriously capricious business, and of the solid career that has carried him
from a janitor’s job at the Charles Playhouse to
Broadway and Hollywood. Tellingly, after so
many years, he still regards his craft with tremendous affection and respect.
Creating a character, he says, “comes to you
in physical ways, in emotional ways, in mental
ways. And very slowly, as you come to understand the character, as you begin to absorb it,
and hopefully when it works, you reach the
point where the blood runs differently in your
veins.”
At the same time, and perhaps most important, Benedict has survived and thrived with
both his humility and humor intact.
A few years ago, Benedict stopped for dinner at a New York restaurant before attending
a show at Lincoln Center. After he was seated,
a waiter came over and, recognizing Benedict,
gushed, “Mr. Benedict, it’s an honor. I’m an actor because of you.”
“I said, ‘That’s wonderful, thank you. That’s
very, very nice,’” Benedict says. “And he said,
‘I saw a couple of your performances and decided not to be an accountant, and [decided]
instead to be an actor.’ He took my order, and
when he returned he said, ‘On the other hand,
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I’m a waiter because of you.’ I laughed for ten
minutes!”
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�Time Capsule
1969 on
campus in ’69
Major theatre production: The Glass
Menagerie
Suffolk Basketball Team Record 10-10
Suffolk Law School approves awarding of
Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree
Speakers on campus: Washington Post
columnist Jack Anderson, birth control
advocate Bill Baird
Suffolk community participates in National
Moratorium protest against Vietnam War
Suffolk University Political Science Club
Poll: 75% of women and 52% of men
thought marijuana should be legalized.
off
campus in ’69
NBA Championship: Boston Celtics
defeated LA Lakers (4-3)
Median Household income $8,389
(current dollars)
Grammy Winner, Record of the Year:
(Cambridge, England)
Sesame Street debuts on public television
The More Things Change...
In 1969, Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) co-founder Julian Bond
addressed Suffolk University students. Bond was barred from serving in the Georgia legislature for his opposition to the Vietnam War before the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that
he could not be denied the position for his views. He is pictured with Suffolk University
President John Fenton (r).
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Cost of a first-class stamp: 6 cents
Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, Jr. take
first walk on the Moon
World Series: N.Y. Mets defeated
Baltimore Orioles (4-1)
At Wilbur Theatre, Boston: You’re a Good
Man, Charlie Brown
PHOTO COURTESY OF SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES
“Mrs. Robinson,” Simon & Garfunkel
First in vitro fertilization of human egg
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�ALUMNI
news
A Letter
from Ellen
T
ime, talent, and treasure. Informally, these have become the hallmarks of the Alumni Association.
Time, that most precious of commodities, is
your gift of yourself, and now is prime time
to volunteer for your Alumni Association.
Talent is your expertise, bolstering our efforts to create a diverse student population,
providing internships, career opportunities,
and mentorships, and sharing your knowledge in so many different ways. Treasure
is the generous philanthropic support of
alumni like you.
As I write to you, the Alumni Association
is preparing to go live with our career network. If you wonder how much of a difference this innovation can make for you, ask
Diane Grattan MBA ’02 what it did for her
You may have wondered how the Alumni
Association has managed to simultaneously
manage such ambitious projects and initiatives. The answer is time—ours, but most
of all, yours. The excitement and energy the
Alumni Association has generated is a direct result of your generosity. As always, we
look forward to partnering with the UAC.
Time, talent, and treasure. Together, they
make up the foundation of your Alumni
Association. My sincerest thanks and
Warmest Regards,
(or take a look on page 13 and see for yourself ). Meanwhile, we’ve launched a new
website, appointed a new UAC executive
committee, and, with this issue, given this
magazine we call “SAM” a whole new look.
ELLEN S. SOLOMITA
Last year, 12 million tourists visited Boston.
They didn’t even have an invitation.
But you do.
We invite you to reconnect with Suffolk University and come back to
Boston for Alumni Weekend, June 13-15, 2008.
See what’s new at Suffolk, catch up with friends, and use our dynamic
downtown location as a base to explore Boston. Mark your calendar
now—memory lane has an exit on Beacon Hill.
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SAM@work >
The term “meteoric rise” could have been coined to describe Nique Fajors BSBA ’89. This Sawyer Business School graduate began his career in brand management at Procter & Gamble and has gone on to
leadership positions with Atari, Snyder Communications, The U.S. Department of Commerce, and The White House. Recently, he
became Vice President of Marketing at Capcom, an interactive entertainment company. Nique was honored with a 2007 Outstanding Alumni Achievement Award at Suffolk’s Reunion Weekend in June. Here, he shares some of the secrets of his success.
1
Become an expert about one of your key competitors and
share that knowledge
2
a letter to the company CEO offering a solution
3
potential hires
4
Identify one area of improvement in the company and write
Assist human resources in staffing by recommending
Take a leadership role in company–sponsored volunteer
service events
Ways to Get
Noticed on the Job
5
by Nique Fajors, Vice President
of Marketing, CAPCOM
Contact Nique via Suffolk’s Alumni website: www.suffolk.edu/alumni
Be passionate in your daily interactions with all co-workers,
not just senior management
Call your mater.
{She misses you}.
The Alumni Association is a direct line for keeping in touch with your
alma mater–and the rest of the Suffolk family. It costs nothing to join,
but pays you back with instant access to your network of fellow alumni
all over the world. Sign up for a permanent email address, access the
Online Community, hear about special events like Suffolk Red Sox Night,
and receive important news about Reunion 2007.
Stay connected to Suffolk.
Send your mailing address, e-mail, and phone to SuffAlum@suffolk.edu.
Or call us at 6(17) 573-8443. Or fax to (617) 573-8711.
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�Summer Suffolk Style
Baseball, sailing, Pops-whatever your preferred way to celebrate the season, you could spend it with
fellow graduates and other friends at one of the many Alumni Association summer events.
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Alumni Spinoff From lunch in the
Gator Pit to a 3-to-2 victory over the Vermont
Lake Monsters, the 7th Annual Lowell
Spinners Alumni Night was another home
Knock Your Socks Off Following a July 22nd pre-game lunch and alumni party, our Sox (Red)
run for the Merrimack Valley Alumni chapter.
beat their Sox (White) 8-5 at Fenway. (above: l to r, Priscilla Hollenbeck JD ’91, Luke, Madeline, Jack, and
(Above: Donna Kasich and Ken Block JD ’82)
Thomas Hollenbeck ’98 )
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A Warm Reception for Suffolk Jazz Fans before a Boston Pops concert at Symphony Hall.
Suffolk Sets Sail in a Salem Sound sunset
Grammy award-winner Dianne Reeves paid tribute to the legendary Sarah Vaughan. (Above: Friends
schooner spectacular (Above: John Thomas
of Suffolk University William and Nancy Geary)
and Rebecca Wallis BS ’02)
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Reunion 2007
Suffolk Alumni Come Home for the Weekend
Reunite, reconnect, relive, reunion—these were the watchwords for this capstone event of the Centennial
Celebration. As those in attendance will confirm, Reunion 2007 was picture perfect.
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Boston by Foot Alumni explored the neighborhoods of Boston surrounding the Suffolk campus in two
walking tours. Nine designated sites comprised The Heart of the Freedom Trail. Destinations of luminaries from
Ralph Waldo Emerson to Louisa May Alcott highlighted Literary Landmarks: Beacon Hill’s 19th Century Lights.
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a > Christopher Sulllivan, JD ’82
b > Richard Colello, BSBA ’66, MBA ’67 and
Jeanne Colello, with Boston by Foot tour guide
c > Walter Pienton, BSBA ’53, Dorris Pienton
d > Anthony Diliso, AB ’62
e > Inset: Kenneth Fonzi, BA ’06,
Joseph McDonough, BSBA ’67, Linda Blessing
f > Edward Bradley, Jr., BSBA 57,
Mark Haddad, MPA ’93
g > Onyen Yong, JD ’93
h > Law School Dean Robert H. Smith
i > Nique Fajors, BSBA ’89 (SBS Achievement),
Karen DeSalvo, BA ’88 (CAS-Achievement),
Bill Fonte, BSBA ’83, MBA ’89 (SBS Service),
Richard Trafaglia, BA ’73 (CAS Service)
j>
(l to r) Harry Spead, BSBA ’57, Dean Kenneth
Greenberg, VP Kathryn Battillo,
George Torrey, BSBA ’56, MAE ’57, Edward
Bradley, BSBA ’57, Dean Robert Smith, George
Lerra, MA ’57, Fred Gilgun, JD ’57, Anthony
All Aboard Alumni enjoyed a leisurely lunch and Boston Harbor cruise aboard the
Parro, JD ’57, Dean William J. O’ Neill
paddleboat Lexington.
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A Tribute to His Tenure At the Law School reunion dinner, Robert H.
Smith hears words of praise and thanks for his service as Dean of Suffolk
Law School (1999-2007).
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Three Cheers for Suffolk’s Fantastic Four Graduates of the
Twice as nice Induction into the Half Century Club was an additional
College of Arts and Sciences and Sawyer Business School were honored
honor for members of the Class of 1957. New and current members were
with achievement and service awards at a special reunion weekend dinner.
feted at the annual tribute luncheon.
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�Alumni News
University Alumni
Council Update
I
n my new role as President of the University Alumni Council, I am dedicated
to strengthening the mutually beneficial,
life-long partnership between the University
and its graduates. My wife Mary-Susan (Potts)
Santone ’87 and I have maintained close, cherished ties to Suffolk. We encourage all alumni
to devote their time and talents to fostering
the University’s reputation, and ensuring its
continued success. I look forward to promoting the efforts of each of the alumni boards, as
well as working with UAC Vice-President Hal
Leibowitz JD ’85 and Clerk Jessica Massey
JD ’03 to expand our volunteer base and increase benefits and resources available for our
Alumni Association members. Most importantly, I welcome the opportunity to discover
how the UAC can best serve its alumni, and
how we may all contribute to what we foresee
as another century of achievement and accomplishment at Suffolk. As we move forward, I
pledge that the UAC will remain unwavering
in its commitment to you, our fellow alumni.
Sincerely,
Dante Santone BS ‘88
President, UAC
Suffolk University Alumni Boards 2008 >
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
LAW SCHOOL
SAWYER BUSINESS SCHOOL
Lori Atkins, BS ’01, JD ’04 *
Joyce Anagnos, JD’97
Edward J. Bradley, Jr., BSBA’57
Barbara- Ann Boehler, BA ’93, JD ’96
Stephen P. Bik, JD’71
Richard Duchesneau, BSBA’69
Allan Caggiano, BA ’99
Doris E. Desautel, JD’99
Maureen Feeney, BA’75, MPA’76 (Clerk)
Alan M. Chapman, BS ’62
Gearoid P. Griffin, JD’01
Irene Fitzgerald, BSBA’91, MS’93
Cynthia Davis, BA ’98
Hal J. Leibowitz, JD’85 (Vice President) *
Patricia Gannon, MPA’97
Anthony DiIeso, AB ’62 (President) *
Thomas W. Madonna, JD’80 *
Dianne Grattan, MBA’02
Jill Gabbe, BA ’73 (Alumni Trustee)
Jessica A. Massey, JD’03 *
Peter Hunter, BSBA ’81, JD ’92 (Alumni Trustee)
Laurie Jackson, BA ’03 *
Gregory P. Noone, JD’90
Robert Jones, BSBA’72
Cheryl Larsen, MED ’77 (Clerk)
Carlotta M. Patten, JD’98
Richard Lockhart, MBA’73
Arthur Makar, MED ’92
Russell A. Gauderau, JD’68 (Alumni Trustee)
David Morse, MBA’94
Lance Morganelli, BA ’02
Richard L. Scheff, JD’81 (President) *
Angela Nunez, BSBA’82, MBA’87, APC’96 *
Laura Piscopo, BA ’02
Stephanie Taverna Siden, JD’99
Elaine O’Sullivan, MPA’97
Dante Santone, BS ’88 *
Michael S. Varadian, JD’82
William Popeleski, Jr., MBA’87 (President) *
Annunziata Varela, BA ’94, MA ’96
Damian Wilmot, JD’00
Rachelle Robin, MBA’87
Michael Walsh, BS ’84, JD ’87
Nathanael E. Wright, JD’98
Tara Taylor, MBA’00 *
(Vice President)
Onyen Yong, JD’93 (Clerk)
Roger Wellington, MPA’01 (Vice President) *
Katherine (Winn) Gatewood, BA ’96
*MEMBER OF THE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI COUNCIL
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�ANNUAL FUND INDEX
Number of books authored by Alfred Aman, new dean of Suffolk Law School: 5
Cost to buy Dean Aman’s textbook on administrative law for the Suffolk Law Library: $48.95
Number of volumes in Suffolk Law library: 360,000
Number of active Suffolk alumni: 60,000
Boston’s population in 1825: 60,000
Number of Suffolk students who lived on campus from 1906 to 1994: 0
Number who live on campus today: 771
Total number when the new dorm at 10 West Street opens: 1,045
Percentage of current applicants who request on-campus housing: 95
Percentage of Suffolk graduates who give to the Annual Fund: 10
National average for a four-year private university: 24
Amount of international trade by US companies in 1990: $363 billion
Amount of international trade by US companies in 2005: $1.037 trillion
Percentage of Sawyer Business School faculty with international teaching experience: 73
Percentage of all Suffolk faculty who hold doctoral degrees: 91
Suffolk’s faculty payroll in 1945: $7,822
Faculty payroll for 2007: $82,000,000
Career points scored by Suffolk Hall of Fame basketball player Maureen “Moe” Brown: 1,458
Number of Suffolk Rams sports teams to make it to post-season play in 2006-2007: 11
Rank of Suffolk Rams among all breeds of sheep registered in the United States: 1
Annual dues to belong to the Montana Suffolk Sheep Breeders Association: $25
Annual dues to belong to the Suffolk University Alumni Association: $0
A great first gift to the Annual Fund if you’ve never given before: $25
Percentage of your gift that helps Suffolk students receive a superior education: 100
Number of thanks from us to you for your generous support: 1,000,000
Make a gift to the Annual Fund now via our fast, secure
Web server at www.suffolk.edu/giving.
The Suffolk Annual Fund. Every student, every day.
1-888-4-SUFFOL(K)
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In a League of Their Own
First Hall of Fame Awards Celebrates Suffolk Sports Legends
On the surface, the eight individuals inducted along with two teams into the Suffolk University Athletic Hall of Fame
seemed so different from one another: women, men, 1940’s to 1990’s, basketball, hockey, tennis, baseball. Yet the
crowd of more than 300 gathered on May 10th at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Cambridge for the awards dinner discovered a striking similarity: the story of each talented athlete mirrored the Suffolk experience of drive and determination.
“All some players need is a chance, a vehicle to reach their highest potential,” said men’s tennis legend Robert
Rauseo ‘84, MBA’90. Rauseo dedicated his award to his father Sal, a 1960 Suffolk graduate who was captain of the men’s
Basketball team, “for showing me Suffolk athletics before I could walk or talk.”
The evening was filled with such poignant personal moments, highlighting not only athletic achievement but monumental teamwork and dedication, and ensuring that this inaugural event is destined to become a Suffolk tradition.
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a > Inductee James Nelson, Men’s Basketball
e > Inductee
Coach and Director of Athletics since 1966 and MC
Women’s Basketball, Softball, and Tennis (1990-
Paul Vaccaro, Men’s Basketball (1982-1986)
1994), named team MVP each of her four years
first Director of Athletics (1946-1978)
b > Inductee Brian Horan, Ice Hockey (1988-1992),
f > Inductee Ellen Crotty Pistorino, Women’s
i > Inductees 1974-1975 Basketball Team. Shown
all time leading scorer with wife Cheryl (standing);
Basketball and Softball (1984-1988), single-game
here (l to r) Jim Byrne, Dave Parsons, Chris Tsiotos
children Kerry and Mathew (front row); and Ashley
Suffolk women’s basketball scoring record and
and Kevin Clark
and Shaley (l to r back row)
Coach James Nelson
j > Hockey Inductees John O’ Toole BS ‘91
c > Inductee Donovan Little, Men’s Basketball
g > Inductee Robert Rauseo, Men’s Tennis
and James Ignazio BSBA ‘91, and former Suffolk
(1975-1979), all-time leading scorer
(1980-1984), won 19 consecutive matches at #1
registrar Mary Heffron MA ‘67
d > Inductee Bill Burns, Jr., head coach for the
position on Suffolk Men’s Tennis Team
k > George Doucet, Baseball Coach, 1962-1975
Maureen “Moe” Brown, BS ‘94,
h > Nancy and Jessica Phifer, daughter and granddaughter of Inductee, the late Charies Law, Suffolk’s
1990-1991 Ice Hockey Team (also inductees)
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Commencement 2007
“Inspiration Everywhere”
You could feel it from the rafters of the TD Banknorth Garden: the excitement of over 10,000 in attendance,
including 1,672 graduates of Suffolk Law School, the College of Arts and Sciences, and Sawyer Business School;
the appreciation of honorary degree recipients and speakers for all it means to be a part of a Centennial
Commencement; the anticipation of the crowd. On that Sunday in May, inspiration was truly everywhere.
Suffolk Stands Tall with (left to right) Nicholas Macaronis, JD ’54, LLD ’00,
Chairman of the Board of Trustees; Commencement speaker Bill Russell, NBA
champion, civil rights advocate, and author; and Suffolk University President
David J. Sargent, JD ’54.
Worth the Wait John Gardner, JD ’31 (center), one of the
Garden Party Graduates, friends, and families at the TD Banknorth Garden
University’s oldest living graduates and recipient of an Honorary
MPA ’07, Brian J. Smith, JD ’07, and Veronica Carlino, BA ’07. Carolyn Carideo, JD ’07
JD ’78 and his son Elliot Gardner.
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listened to inspiring words from student commencement speakers Justin C. Spencer,
Doctor of Laws degree, sits with Suffolk Trustee Deborah Marson,
(right) sang the national anthem for the crowd.
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�Advancing
Suffolk
Excellence as a Cornerstone
THE POWER TO CHANGE campaign aims to build strong infrastructure for Suffolk
PHOTO BY PETER VANDERWARKER; SET DESIGN BY RICHARD CHAMBERS
A
first-rate education often includes the study of abstract
theories and hypotheses, but these days, a top-flight
education also requires something more tangible,
namely, a world-class campus—which is no easy task when you’re
located in one of the most expensive real estate markets in the
country. Suffolk University’s main campus, nestled in the tight
confines of Boston’s historic Beacon Hill, has presented more
than its share of challenges over the years. Through decades of
creativity and gumption, however, Suffolk’s leaders have carved
a university out of the spare corners of Beacon Hill.
The days of nooks and crannies, however, are done. Through careful borrowing and investments, Suffolk
has begun to shape a campus that is
among the best in Boston and equal to
the first-rate education that it delivers.
“We are not the type of school that
requires a lot of lawn mowers,” says
President David J. Sargent. “We are
not quaint. We are not bucolic. We
are—much to the benefit of our students—a school that is at the very
center of a world-class city. It makes
for a completely unique educational
opportunity.”
It was this singular location that
drove Sargent to include Suffolk’s
“one-of-a kind-campus” among the top priorities of The Power to
Change—Suffolk’s record-setting $75 million capital campaign.
“We are very proud of our urban location,” says Sargent, “and we
are equally proud of our tradition of investing in people first. But today we see a need to offer learning and living spaces that are worthy
of the people of Suffolk and in step with the demands of the times.”
Growing enrollments, new academic programs, and competition
from peer institutions are just a few of the demands facing Suffolk
today. Through the capital campaign, the University hopes to raise
money for renovations to the school’s science labs, a new TV/video
studio, the creation of a student center, and renovations to the C.
Walsh Theatre. According to Kathryn Battillo, vice president of Advancement, there are also attractive naming opportunities for do-
nors who may be looking to memorialize their philanthropy.
“Suffolk’s campus is truly inspiring,” says Battillo. “We are neighbors to the Statehouse and City Hall, surrounded by American history at every corner. With Boston’s world famous Freedom Trail running directly past our library, hundreds of thousands of tourists walk
through our campus every summer. For a philanthropist looking to
make an impact, Suffolk’s campus is a special opportunity.”
Strengthening the Foundation
When Sargent became president in 1989, Suffolk’s campus comprised
around 286,000 square feet. Today, that number has expanded to
approximately 1.3 million. A new law
school, two new residence halls (with a
third on the way), and the recent addition of the Rosalie K. Stahl building at
73 Tremont Street are a few of the additions that have elevated Suffolk pride
and given the University some much
needed breathing space. Established in
one of Boston’s most prestigious neighborhoods (Beacon Hill) with a growing
presence in one of the city’s newly fashionable sections (The Ladder District),
Suffolk now arguably has the most desirable campus in town.
For Battillo, there is a direct connection between the quality of the campus and the caliber of the educational experience. “Keeping our facilities on par with our programs
and people is an ongoing priority,” she explains. More than just keeping up appearances, “there’s a real cause and effect here. Talk with any
student or faculty member and you quickly understand why a firstrate campus directly supports what they do.”
President Sargent concurs. “We just celebrated our Centennial anniversary, which was a wonderful accomplishment worthy of its citywide celebration,” says Sargent. “But while nostalgia is a lovely thing,
it makes for an uninspiring science lab. Our classrooms, commons
areas, libraries, and science labs must be of sufficient quality to serve
our students. Renovations to existing facilities are as critical as adding new buildings.” S
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Philanthropy in Action > Centennial Scholarship Donors
T
he Centennial Scholarship Program has raised over $10 million to date in new scholarship
support for Suffolk University. We are deeply grateful to the following donors who have embraced the
mission of Suffolk University and the Centennial Scholarship Program and made new or additional
scholarship commitments of $50,000 or more as of September 5, 2007.
Robert E. Anders, BSBA ’50
Morris and Margaret McInnes and Family
Albert Auburn, JD ’47
Patricia Maguire Meservey and Richard G. Meservey
Richard M. Rosenberg, BSJ ’52, DCS ’91
and Barbara Rosenberg
Michael L. Barretti, Sr., EMBA ’82
Metro Property Partners, LLP - Michael D. C. Scott,
BSBA ’99, Michael Hecker and Michael Reilly
Sidney J. Rosenthal, AA ’55, JD ’56
and Marilyn G. Rosenthal
Kathleen A. Meyer, JD ’78
and Andrew C. Meyer, Jr., JD ’74, LLD ’99
Thomas J. Ryan, JD ’74 and Margaret Ryan
Kathryn and Thomas Battillo
The Honorable Lawrence L. Cameron, JD ’51, DJUR ’67
Nathan R. Miller, DCS ’03
Pamela Scangas, BA ’72 and Patricia Scangas
Campus Stores of Massachusetts, Inc.
Alice Moore Trust
Donald J. Scott, JD ’41
Robert W. Casby, JD ’82
Robert F. Muse, JD ’50
John C. Scully, DCS ’86 and Barbara A. Scully
The Honorable Salvatore J. Basile, JD ’39, LLM ’42 and
Jennie B. Basile
David J. Sargent, JD ’54, LLD ’78 and Shirley Sargent
Raymond J. Ciccolo, BSBA ’59
Aung Myint
Mrs. George C. Seybolt *
Professor H. Edward Clark
NEWIRE (New England Women in Real Estate)
Larry E. Smith, BSBA ’65
Richard I. Clayman, JD ’72
John A. Nucci, MPA ’79 and Family
Michael S. Smith, BSBA ’61
The William F. Connell Charitable Trust
James W. O’Brien Foundation
Stanley W. Sokoloff, JD ’66 and Susan Sokoloff
Robert B. Crowe, BA ’70, JD ’73
John J. O’Connor, BSBA ’73, DCS ’06
James G. Sokolove, JD ’69
Diane P Davis, BS ’83
.
Suffolk University Law School Class of 1969
Marguerite J. and Russell V. Dennis
The Estate of Arnold W. Olsson, JD ’43
and Edith Olsson
Brian G. Doherty, JD ’77
Charles T. O’Neill, JD ’76 and Mary Ellen Neylon, Esq.
Gerard F. Doherty, JD ’60 and Marilyn M. Doherty
William J. O’Neill, Jr., JD ’74 and Ann O’Neill
Suffolk University Law School Dean’s
Advisory Committee
Dennis M. Duggan, Jr., JD ’78
Professor Laurie W. Pant
in honor of Dean Robert H. Smith
Professor and Mrs. Clifford E. Elias, LLD ’99
William A. Popeleski, Jr., MBA ’87
Estate of Helen Jane Sullivan
John E. Fenton, Jr. and Theresa A. Fenton
John Tegan, Jr., BA ’64 and Lorraine Tegan
The Honorable Paul J. Fitzpatrick, BA ’56, JD ’57
Richard P Quincy and The Quincy
.
Charitable Foundation
Francis X. Flannery, MBA ’64, DCS ’91 and Family
Jerome Lyle Rappaport, LLD ’98 and Phyllis Rappaport
Richard A. Voke, BA ’70, JD ’74
Foley Hoag LLP
The Jerome Lyle Rappaport Charitable Foundation
John N. Wilson, Jr.
Daniel N. Ford, BA ’77
Dean Michael R. Ronayne, Jr. Memorial Fund
Paul F. Zerola, JD ’01
Suffolk University Law School Class of 1981
Dr. George N. Torrey, BSBA ’56, MAE ’57
Margaret E. Ford Trust
* deceased
Christine Newman Garvey, JD ’72
Elizabeth and Russell A. Gaudreau, Jr., JD ’68
Michael G. George, BS ’83
THE POWER TO CHANGE Results
I. Steven Goldstein
The Campaign for Suffolk University
Ernst Guerrier, BS ’91, JD ’94
Jeanne M. Hession, JD ’56, DJS ’74
and Marguerite E. Hession
William T. Hogan III, JD ’81
John M. Hughes and Family
J. Robert Johnson, BSBA ’63, MBA ’68
and Sandra Johnson
Professor Catherine T. Judge, JD ’57, LLM ’60 *
Friends of Suzanne King, JD ’88 Memorial Fund
James A. Lack, JD ’96
Herbert and Lois Lemelman
A GOAL IN SIGHT
$75 Million Goal
$70 Million
$60 Million
$50 Million
$40 Million
$30 Million
$20 Million
$10 Million
$45.4 Million
61%
$10.25 Million
55%
Deborah Marson, JD ’78
Total amount raised of $75M campaign goal
Michael J. McCormack, JD ’72
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�A Tradition Continues –
Centennial Commencement Eve Dinner
A prelude to graduation that has become a Suffolk signature event, Commencement Eve Dinner
honors members of Summa, the University’s leadership giving circle, Honorary degree recipients, and
Frost Society members. Celebrants enjoyed an evening of inspiration at the Fairmont Copley Plaza.
a
b
Bill Russell (left) with Peg and Morris McInness,
Inset: Kathleen F. Ramirez, President David J. Sargent, JD’54, and Trustee
Associate Dean, Sawyer Business School
George A. Ramirez, JD ‘99
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Veronica Ford, Harold Cohen, JD ’ 55, and granddaughter Emily Cohen
Pamela Scangas, BA ’72, James E. Nelson,
Director of Athletics
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�Inside Out
For communication technology entrepreneur John Tegan ’64,
Suffolk opened a window to a new world BY DAVE ENDERS
A
T THE IMPRESSIONABLE AGE OF 19,
John Tegan had to decide: in or out?
The founder of Communication Technology Services, a successful national communications infrastructure service company based
in Marlborough, Massachusetts, Tegan had once
contemplated a very different path. As a seminary
student at a Benedictine mission in New Jersey, he
was one of only eight candidates who had made it
to Christmas break, and would soon be starting
his year of silence and prayer. To the Benedictines,
this is an important start to a lifelong inward
journey. Tegan’s Benedictine brothers encouraged him not to rush his decision. Why not first
take a look at the outside world, they urged. He
took their advice and became the first in his working class Revere family to go to college. Suffolk
was possible, he says, because they accepted his
credits from seminary and because the flexible
class hours allowed him to work his way through
school moonlighting as a longshoreman.
A 1964 College of Arts and Sciences graduate
with a degree in English, Tegan admits he had
no idea where he was heading when he first
arrived at Suffolk. “Like most nineteen-year olds
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at the time, I didn’t know what I wanted to do,”
Tegan recalls. Working from 4 p.m. to midnight
unloading railcars and attending school during
the day, he earned the liberal arts degree he says
has served him well.
At Suffolk, Tegan became a leader. Noting a
lack of Catholic organizations, he started the
school’s first Newman Club. Tegan also liked
the wide mix of alumni. “We called Suffolk the
‘Last Chance Corral’ because the school seemed
to want to give everybody a shot at a good higher
education.” Even more impressive, he says, “the
professors knew you on a personal basis and
took an interest in you.” Even the administration
took an interest. “I came into the Bursar’s office
one semester and told them I would have to
drop out. I just didn’t have the tuition.” But the
Bursar would not give up on Tegan so easily. “She
arranged a scholarship for me and I was able to
stay in school,” he recalls. “There was always
that kind of warmth at Suffolk.”
After graduation, Tegan found employment as
a teacher, but with a wife and two kids to support,
he kept a constant lookout for new opportunities.
In 1968, he read a want ad from Honeywell EDP
seeking “bored school teachers.” Tegan confesses
that he had to look up just what EDP meant
(Electronic Data Processing). Sure enough, it
turned out to be the first question out of the
interviewer’s mouth. Out of some 200 applicants
interviewed, he was one of six who got the job in the
promising computer data processing field. Tegan
learned information systems from the ground
up and later landed a job at Digital Equipment
Corporation. At DEC, innovative and opportunistic
thinking was not just encouraged, it was expected.
This corporate culture became obvious in the late
1980’s when, facing an economic downturn, DEC
management asked employees what could be
done to avoid layoffs. Tegan suggested following
the lead of Xerox Corporation and allowing DEC
employees to incubate new spin-off companies
that, if successful, would operate independently
and in partnership with DEC.
Again, Tegan recognized an opportunity.
One limiting factor he noticed was the lack
of installation companies. During Tegan’s
employment at DEC, he had the foresight to earn
a second degree in Manufacturing Engineering.
In 1990, at 48 years old, he and his wife “invested
every nickel we had for the next four years to
launch Communication Technology Services.”
The risk paid off as CTS became a leading player
in communication infrastructure, serving clients
like Sun Microsystems, IBM, Lockheed Martin,
GE and Fleet Bank. Today, Tegan’s children run
the company while he remains active as a senior
consultant in semi-retirement.
Tegan hopes to share his decision to step out
into the world with generations of Suffolk alumni
to come. He serves on the Dean’s Advisory Board
and is a generous contributor to the Centennial
Scholarship Fund. “I see this as a good way to
help other people get the same opportunity
I had. That’s what Suffolk has always been
about…opportunity.”
He also offers Suffolk his expertise as a
guest lecturer at Dr. Karen Bishop’s courses on
entrepreneurship. “There was never any cookiecutter success quotient at Suffolk,” Tegan says.
“Students are encouraged to step out of the box,
and get an inkling of what success and failure
[are] really about.”
Today, John Tegan continues to support many
of the institutions that helped him on his way.
Inward or outward, it appears the journey is one
in the same. S
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�ClassNotes
UNDERGRADUATE
1969
1973 > Reunion June 13-15, 2008
Suffolk graduates Dick Duchesneau and Andy Gala
Richard Bevilacqua (BS) writes, “I was named director of
1960
(both BSBA) and their spouses embarked on a walking tour
internal and interactive communications at Covidien (former-
NESAD > “I have been living and working here in my na-
of the Tuscan region of Italy this summer. To keep up their
ly Tyco Healthcare), a medical supplies and devices company
tive Vermont since 1985 as a freelance designer/illustrator
strength along the way, they sustained themselves with good
headquartered in Mansfield, MA.”
and as creative director for Advanced Animations,” writes
Tuscan food and—most importantly—Tuscan wine.
Richard Edney (Illustration). “While with Advanced, we
“I received my PhD in environmental biology from Wayne
built many of the animatronic elements for Universal Studios
1971
State University in Detroit in 1980,” Gerald (Jerry) Filbin
shows such as Terminator, ET’s Home Planet, and Men in
“I will be retiring this June after working in the Plainville (MA)
(BS) writes. “I am currently living in Washington, DC, where
Black. We also built floats for Disneyworld’s Mickey’s Jam-
Public Schools for 33 years,” William Fasulo (BA) writes.
I am employed as the director of the U.S. Environmental
min’ Jungle Safari, the Tokyo Fantalusion Parade, and themed
“I was a Peace Corps teacher in Liberia, West Africa from
Protection Agency’s innovative pilots division in EPA’s Office
events for Las Vegas casinos, such as MGM Grand and Sam’s
1971-73. With substitute teaching, I have worked in educa-
of Policy, Economics, and Innovation. Prior to that position,
Town. Prior to relocating here in Vermont with my wife, Paula,
tion for 35 years. I have an MEd from Boston College (1983).
I served as the agency’s coordinator for community-based
and daughter, Caitlin, I spent many years as an illustrator for
I was awarded the Laura M. Warcup Distinguished Educator
environmental protection.” Jerry has lived in the DC area for
Hewlett Packard and Raytheon and as a freelance designer.”
Award [as Teacher of the Year] by the Norfolk County Teach-
over 20 years, working as a consultant before joining the
ers Association. I am looking forward to new career oppor-
EPA. Prior to that, he held a variety of research and academic
tunities after I retire.”
positions. Since coming to the DC area, Jerry has served as
1962
“I am the newly-elected president of the CAS Alumni Board
an adjunct faculty member in the graduate school of engi-
of Directors,” Anthony T. DiIeso (BA) announces. “Your
1972
neering at Johns Hopkins University and also served for six
ideas and suggestions are needed to improve the effective-
Pamela Scangas (BA) was married in September.
years on the board of directors of Whitman-Walker Clinic, the
ness of the Alumni Association. Please visit Suffolk and par-
region’s largest community-based care provider for people
ticipate in the many alumni activities.”
with HIV and AIDS.
1966
1974
Bob LeBlanc (BSBA), a former trustee of Suffolk University,
was recently elected a member of the board of overseers
Stay Connected
“I have accepted a position as senior technical-support engineer to Raytheon Network Centric Systems and the Depart-
of the USS Constitution Museum. He writes, “I am also a
ment of Homeland Security,” writes Ramona Preston (BA).
member of the Massachusetts Democratic State Committee
“Working as a systems analyst, I have spent many years doing
where I serve as deputy counsel, chair of the rules commit-
computer programming and markup language development
tee, and Sargent At Arms of the party conventions. I am an
in Boston and in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. I have won numerous
attorney with offices in Methuen and Boston specializing in
industry awards for my work, particularly in document infor-
criminal law, government relations, and strategic initiatives
You can reach your classmates in
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this section through the Suffolk
have traveled extensively throughout Europe and the Middle
ment activities.”
University Alumni Association
East and speak fluent German, Russian, and Arabic.”
Online Community.
1968
Mel Sudalter (BA) was preparing to become a first time
grandfather this summer. Mel has three daughters, ages 31,
30, and 25. A frequent companion of his mentor, Dr. Stanley
Vogel, Mel winters in Florida and summers in Kennebunk-
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1976
“I am currently the director of Massachusetts Office of State
Auditor’s Bureau of Special Investigations,” notes Bruce
Carmichael (BA). Bruce was reelected to the board of directors of United Council on Welfare Fraud (UCOWF) last fall
Registration is free and the easiest way
during its national conference in Tampa, FL. “I have served on
to stay in touch with Suffolk University’s
the national board since 2002. I serve concurrently as a mem-
60,000 graduates worldwide. (Due to privacy
ber of the National Association of State Welfare Fraud Direc-
concerns, we are unable to print or provide
tors. State welfare fraud directors promote program integrity
individual contact information.)
port, ME, with a permanent residence in Newton, MA.
issues with federal officials, providing insight into efforts regarding prevention, detection, and elimination of fraud, and
the recovery of taxpayer monies.”
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�Class Notes
“I just celebrated my 30th year with
which was founded in Worcester in 1895.
ing around….Mark!” There’s a full length version of the entire
“History of Art,” written for his senior art history final project
Easter Seals Massachusetts and I
have been president and CEO for the
1982
for Charles Guilliano, and a song written for his wedding,
past 11 years,” writes Kirk N. Jos-
Ann Coyne (BS) was recently appointed associate dean of
“More to Live For.” His new CD, Don’t Get Me Started, was
lin (BSJ). “I started soon after gradu-
students at Suffolk University.
recently released.
ating from Suffolk. My first job was as
William Wood (BS) writes, “I live
an advocate for people with disabilities and their families.”
in southern California (Costa Mesa)
“I was featured in the Suffolk University International Observer, International Alumni Newsletter Winter 2005-2006 issue,”
writes Melissa Julian (BS). “I’m a 1989 graduate, now a lob-
1978 > Reunion June 13-15, 2008
and work as a communications con-
Barbara (Smith) Fraser (BS) credits her Suffolk Univer-
sultant, specializing in technical and
sity degree as “the best tool to help me achieve my dream.”
marketing writing, project manage-
She writes, “When I graduated from Suffolk, my dream was
ment, and website development. I
NESAD > Dave Swanson (Graphic Design) is the direc-
to move to a small New England town in Maine or Vermont
sing tenor in a church choir, a college
tor of design for Fidelity Investments in Smithfield, RI. Dave
and teach, have lots of animals, and live a slower pace of
chorale, and other groups. I also completed a CD of original
lives in Foster with his wife and three children, two-year-old
life. It took me years to accomplish that dream, but here I
songs (I wrote, sang, and played guitar) featuring styles such
Zoe, four-year-old Clara, and
am in a small Vermont town doing what I love, teaching high
as pop, ballads, funky blues, and rock.”
six-year-old Max. “It’s just non-
school students and living on a 200-acre, 11-bedroom farm
1984
visit. I spend my summers kayaking, horseback riding, hik-
Michael Walsh, Esq. (BS) was elected vice president of the
magnificent mountain views. My degree from Suffolk made
this happen for me. For 30 years I counted on my Suffolk
degree to land a great job to bring me one step closer to my
dream, while keeping me competitive in both the world of
Pacific policy in Brussels.”
stop, taking care of a house, a
with all my animals and plenty of room for my children to
ing, quilting, reading on my screened porch, and enjoying the
byist/consultant on European Union-Africa, Caribbean, and
CAS Alumni Board of Directors.
1987
dog, and three small children,
then trying to fit in my own
stuff,” writes Dave. “I’ve redefined patience.”
NESAD > Deven Winters (Fine Arts) and his wife packed
for a move back to Mesquite, TX, where he is taking a job at
1993 > Reunion June 13-15, 2008
id Software, a pioneer in first-person shooter (FPS) PC game
Michael D. Hurley (BSJ) is the director of marketing and
education and business. At 56, I am in a wonderful place both
titles. As a designer, he’ll be creating levels, gameplay ele-
communications at Wentworth Institute of Technology. “My
professionally and personally. I am so very grateful!”
ments, and some basic art. “I want to go there to be able
wife Ana and I live in Walpole and are expecting our first child
to learn from the masters, develop my next-gen art and be-
in October,” Michael writes.
1979
come even more well-rounded,” Deven writes. He also says
“My life since Suffolk has had many turns,” writes Sister
that he’ll be starting a children’s book this fall written by his
1995
Maryanne Ruzzo (BS). “I did cell culture on cystic fibrosis
wife. “The newest member of our family is getting big…and
“In 2003, my sister Tara Rogers and I opened Skribbles Learn-
at Children’s Hospital Boston, then on eye melanoma at Mas-
is almost as tall as his four-and-a-half-year-old brother. My
sachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, and then worked as an operations manager at a small pharmaceutical company. From
there I made a major change and felt called to work with
special needs children doing music and religious studies at
oldest son, Joshua, can read and write a little bit. He also
reconfigured my Xbox to read Chinese and it took us two
hours to undo it. He’s is getting really good at games and
problem solving.” Deven is thinking of becoming a teacher of
3D graphics and perhaps starting his own company as well.
Saint Coletta’s in Braintree, MA. In 1989, I entered the Sisters
ing Center, LLC,” writes Juliane Blackmore (BSBA). “I am
happy to announce the opening of our second child care
center in Northborough, MA. I handle the business operations and Tara oversees the centers’ directors. With the addition of the new center, Skribbles will care for more than
200 children. It is a blessing to be able to work together and
of Charity and spent several years ministering with home-
1989
take part in the development of young minds. We consider
less women at The Women’s Inn at Pine Street. I worked in
“I am the owner of Boundless Online, an online Web-market-
ourselves very lucky.”
my religious community for a few years after I studied and
ing and Web-hosting business,” writes Lisa Ebisch (BA). “As
am presently a chaplain at Boston Medical Center. I love the
if ten years in marketing for a publishing company wasn’t
1998 > Reunion June 13-15, 2008
connection between my biology studies years ago and my
challenging enough in today’s Internet world, I purchased
NESAD > Melissa Horvath (Graphic Design) started a
religious years by doing ministry at a hospital. I loved my time
a Web-services business and renamed it Boundless On-
new job in May as senior interactive art director at VML in
at Suffolk and continue to remember and receive fruits from
line for its boundless possibilities. Now I live in a paperless
the gifts I received while I was a student there.”
world and find the challenge of competing with other Web
development companies energizing and rewarding.” Lisa
and her husband Paul have three boys: five-year-old Blaise;
1980
Patricia L. Jones (BSBA), CPA and principal of the firm P.L.
three-year-old Cole; and 18-month-old Aslan. They reside in
State Savings Bank. Patricia is also a trustee of the bank
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clients as Colgate-Palmolive, as well as Melissa’s main accounts, Burger King and TurboTax. In addition to the new job,
Melissa is making plans for her wedding on November 9.
Springfield, MO.
Jones & Associates, PC, was recently appointed to serve as
director as well as member of the audit committee of Bay
New York. VML, a subsidiary of Young & Rubicam, has such
“I was just wondering when my class is going to have a reNESAD > Mark Fisher (DIP) “just released my fifth CD,
union,” writes Sibouh Kandilian (BS). “Perhaps next year
featuring songs of love, songs of glory, and stories revolv-
when it is the tenth-year reunion!” [Editor’s Note: Class of ’98
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�reunion is in 2008]. A lot has happened to me since I graduat-
Jennifer Magee (BS) received her Doctor of Dental Medi-
NESAD > Nicole Wang (Graphic Design, BFA ’02) has
ed. I suffered a hemorrhagic brainstem stroke after six brain
cine degree from the University of Connecticut in May. Jen-
relocated to Emeryville, CA, and has taken a position with
surgeries that I had on my pediatric brainstem tumor. It was
nifer returned to Boston to begin a one-year residency at
Arc Worldwide in San Francisco. The company deals in pro-
really nice to meet my college professor at a fund-raiser a
Brigham and Woman’s Hospital in general dentistry. “In other
motional, interactive, direct, and shopper marketing, and
few weeks ago called Ride for Research. It was my first time
exciting news,” she writes, “I got engaged over the winter to
is owned by the Publicis Group (owner of Digitas, Nicole’s
[attending] this event, held annually by the Brain Tumor Soci-
Josh Aigen, an industrial designer currently working at Wen-
former employer). Nicole’s move followed a two-month Eu-
ety. Today, I have to live with a number of disabilities, such as
tworth Institute of Technology, and am beginning to plan the
ropean vacation. “After working three years straight in a fast-
double vision and right-facial paralysis. I have difficulty with
wedding for next summer!”
paced agency like that,” she writes, “I felt I really needed a
balance and writing also, and I live with chronic ringing of the
ear and headaches. As a result of my stroke, I was not able
loooong vacation!”
2001
2004
to be an eye doctor, but hopefully I can do something with
NESAD > Laura Granlund (BFA) writes “The most current
my degree in biology.”
news is that I am going to have some artwork featured in
NESAD > Juliana Abislaiman (Graphic Design) left Artea-
a book called Plush You by Kristen Rask, coming out in
ga & Arteaga Advertising and has a new job with McCann
November.”
Erickson in Puerto Rico.
1999
“I just want to let my classmates know what I have been
up to since graduation,” writes Carmen Amador-Herrera
2002
“I got married in June of 2006 to Noah Davisson and we are
(BS). “I went back to school. I want to thank Lori Rosenberg,
“I recently purchased a condo in Winchester, MA, and am
now expecting our first child, a boy, in October,” writes Cal-
from the sociology department, for helping me get accepted
currently working in the technology department as a com-
lie Davisson (CAS).
and for believing in me. Lori, you are in part responsible for
puter tech for the Medford Public Schools,” writes Joshua
my success—thank you. I graduated in 2002 and started
Glionna (BS).
working as a mental health provider for several places, in-
Elisa Hahn (BSBA) has been working as a senior internal
auditor at Investors Bank & Trust (acquired by State Street in
cluding Children’s Hospital and East Boston Health Center.
After receiving her criminology and law degree, Evelyn
July). “As an IA,” she writes, “I am able to travel internation-
My area of expertise has been couples therapy, which I enjoy
Vega-Johnston (BS) married Kyvah Johnston, of Boston, in
ally to conduct mutual-fund accounting audits with complex
very much. In 2004, I married my fiancé, with whom I have
January 2003. She is a proud mother of her two-year-old son,
fund structures. I am working towards my MBA and studying
two children: Isamar, age 16, and Leonardo, age eight. We
Kyvah N.J. Johnston. She is also stepmother to eight-year-old
for my certified internal auditor exam.”
are also raising our 11-year-old niece, Ruby. The children are
Myah. The family resides in Newton, MA.
“Hi everybody!” writes Felipe Irar-
doing very well. At the moment I am working at IBA, a
After graduation, Anne (Pluta) Zeeman (BSBA) worked
razabal (BSBA). “I am a marketing
community-based
agency,
for financial services and consulting firms in various market-
graduate from Chile. I would like to
and my future plans include
ing roles, including director of marketing for a MetLife agency
share with you the birth of my first
going back to school to get a
and for the Odyssey Companies. “A few months after getting
daughter, Martina, born May 7.”
law degree or an MPH.”
married in September 2005, my husband, Jeff, and I moved
to Washington, DC,” Anne writes. “Last summer, after trav-
NESAD > Victoria Masters (Graphic Design) has left
Lesley Peters (BSBA) recently started work at the Massa-
eling to Mexico and to London to be on BBC 4’s Genius, I
Charity Folks and is now a junior creative director at Creative
chusetts Convention Center Authority as a senior accountant.
started my full-time MBA. I’d love to hear from any alumni in
Gorillas, also in New York. Creative Gorillas is an advertising
Washington, DC, southern Maryland or northern Virginia, and
and marketing firm with a number of clients in the real estate
anyone from my class.”
and development fields.
2000
“I just launched my literary blog, Savvy Verse & Wit,” writes
Serena M. Agusto-Cox (BA). “The blog and online shop
2003 > Reunion June 13-15, 2008
Julie T. Pham (BSBA) writes,
will promote artistic talent through thoughtful discussions of
Joe Diver (BS) was appointed chief information officer
“I switched careers and am
books, poems, and photography. My own photography is cur-
for Berkshire Health Systems in 2005. “I am leading Berkshire
now an entertainment jockey
rently featured on many of the products in the shop, and I am
Health Systems in the implementation of a complete elec-
(EJ) for a brand-spanking-new
working on a series of literary-themed logo shirts and bags
tronic medical record and computerized physician order
website, OurStage.com.” Julie’s
as well. In May, I attended a one-day writer’s conference in
entry (CPOE),” Joe writes. “I also serve on the advisory board
show is called The Daily Spam
Bethesda, MD, where I made contact with other writers, pub-
for Medical Information Technology (MEDITECH) and Patient
with Julie Pham.
lishers, and agents. Workshops highlighted the submission
Keeper. Both are leaders within the healthcare industry. I am
processes for magazines, the state of the poetry market, the
married to Karen (Dockrey) of Randolph, MA, and we have
In March, Gail Sparacino-Vina (BS) attended the Alliance
increased use of the Internet in publishing and promotion, and
two children.”
for Lupus Research (ALR) 2nd annual national volunteer
many other topics. Overall, the experience was phenomenal,
meeting and advocacy day in Washington, DC. “I was among
particularly as a means for networking with other writers.”
125 others chosen nationwide by the ALR to speak with
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members of Congress to help get increased federal funding
the board and emeritus general agent of the Herman Finan-
for Lupus research,” Gail writes. “I lobbied Congress to estab-
cial Group in Oak Brook, IL.”
Veritas Global, LLC, a business intelligence and global investigative firm, added Robert Pertuso (BSBA ’76, MBA) to its
staff as a managing director in May. “Bob brings a wealth of
lish a program within the Department of Defense specifically
dedicated and earmarked to lupus research. I recounted to
1956
experience to our investigative operations,” said chief oper-
members of Congress my personal experiences with fighting
Judge Darrell L. Outlaw (BA ’55/MA ’56) has been elected
ating officer Gregory Suhajda. “His experience with the FBI
lupus since August 2004. I helped shed light on the serious
president of the New England School of Law Corporation. A
in complex white-collar criminal investigations, organized-
impact this disease has on individuals and families, and the
corporation member since 1992 and of the board of trustees
crime investigations, and counter-intelligence operations
importance of lupus research. At the ALR national awards
for 24 years, he most recently served as corporation treasurer.
will bring added depth to our ability to assist clients with
dinner in DC, I received
Judge Outlaw is the past president of the William Lewis Law
complex investigative needs. Additionally, his post-FBI expe-
the founder’s award for
Society (now the Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association)
rience serving as the director of corporate investigations for
my work establishing
and a board member of Project Commitment, which pro-
a Fortune 500 company will also allow us to better serve our
the inaugural Austin
motes careers in law and the importance of the legal system.
corporate compliance clients.”
Walk With Us To Cure
The former chairman of the Massa-
Lupus 2006 that raised
chusetts Commission Against Dis-
1979
$45,000.”
crimination was appointed associate
Deutsches Altenheim of West Roxbury has named Gregory
judge of Dorchester District Court in
C. Karr (EMBA) as its new chief executive officer. In this role,
2005
1981 and has, since his retirement in
he will be responsible for oversight of the entire Deutsches
Heather Davis (BS) recently spent two weeks traveling
1993, focused on mediation, arbitra-
Altenheim campus, which includes the German Centre for
through Europe. She writes, “I enjoyed it so much that I have
tion, and mental health law.
Extended Care, a 133-bed nursing facility offering skilled
decided to pursue my master’s degree there!”
nursing, Alzheimer’s care, respite, and hospice services,
1973 > Reunion June 13-15, 2008
post-acute rehabilitation, and outpatient rehabilitation; Se-
“I recently announced my candidacy for the Lynn School
“I am a senior receptionist at the First Marblehead Corpo-
nior Place, an adult day health program; and Edelweiss Vil-
Committee,” writes Charlie Gallo (BA). “I am presently an
ration,” writes Carol Kaplan Levine (AB ’71, MEd). “First
lage, moderately-priced assisted-living apartments. He and
evening student at Suffolk University Law School and work at
Marblehead helps provide private college loans to students
his wife, Judith, are longtime residents of Dover, MA. Their
the Boston law firm of Weston Patrick, PA.”
who wish to further their educations. My daughter, Heather, is
son, Alden, and daughter, Bailey, are both graduates of Do-
beginning her third year at California State University, North-
ver-Sherborn High School.
Timothy Hislop (BS) received a master’s in education
ridge. My daughter, Amy, also works at First Marblehead.”
1986
policy, planning, and administration and is currently in his
second year teaching seventh grade. Timothy is engaged to
1976
Julie Minton (MCO) has recently joined South Bay Mental
be married in June 2008.
“Hi everyone,” writes Anne Koteen (MBA). “Things have
Health as a trauma therapist.
been crazy at our house lately....our daughter, Jenny, just
“After I graduated from Suffolk, I
graduated from high school and is interning at both Fidelity
1989
started working for Ernst & Young,”
Investments and Senator Kennedy’s office currently. We are
“I am the membership development and marketing direc-
writes Thuy Vu Dropsey (BSBA). “I
all very proud and excited! My husband is working for SAP
tor at the Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS),” writes
have had a chance to come back to
in Cambridge, MA. I am working at Koteen Associates, doing
George Dudley (MBA). “With over 18,600 physician mem-
Suffolk as a recruiter and met many
information technology search and placement.” Anne enjoys
bers, the MMS is the state’s leading advocate for physicians
very fine and enthusiastic candi-
serving client companies, new business development, and
and their patients. I live in Wilmington, MA.”
dates. The events remind me of myself during my last year at
working with candidates.
1990
Suffolk. Recently, I had a baby girl, Agatha.”
1977
“Real estate sales continue to happen in the Wellesley area
2006
Cheryl Larsen (MEd) was elected clerk of the CAS Alumni
where I am associated with Coldwell Banker Residential Bro-
Melissa Sibiga (BSBA) is back from a global seminar to
Board of Directors.
kerage,” writes Bobby Morgenstern (EMBA). “In addition
China and currently enrolled in Suffolk’s MBA program.
to consulting with those with real estate needs, I recently
1978 > Reunion June 13-15, 2008
Burt Herman (BSBA ’53, MEd) writes, “May 1 was my 50th
ding and toured the country. Our two-week adventure took
us from the foothills of the Himalayas, where we took an
you, Suffolk!”
1954
12-year-old son and my father-in-law. We attended a wed-
in MA public schools,” Faith Brouillard Hughes (MEd) explains. “I retired on June 14 after 26 years in the field. Thank
GRADUATE
had the opportunity of a lifetime to travel to Nepal with my
“I got my MEd at Suffolk in 1978 in order to teach chemistry
aerial tour of Everest; to the Royal Chitwan National Park for
a safari; and to the urban center of Katmandu.”
anniversary with Transamerica Life Companies as an agent
in Boston, general manager in Chicago, and now chairman of
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Conference in Reno, NV, this summer. The theme, “Work-
1999
“I guess I will toot my own horn,” writes Caroline Coscia
“I am in my 14th year at Fidelity In-
ing Women Moving Forward: Define Your Future,” offered
(MPA), and for good reason: Caroline received the public
vestments managing implementa-
information, resources, and tools designed for the many
service award at the commencement ceremony of the pub-
tions for ultra-high net-worth family
transitions and phases of life. Ruth presented a workshop
lic policy doctoral program at McCormack School of Policy
offices,” writes Todd Altomare
on “The Four Keys to Networking Confidence and Success”
Studies. The award recognizes a student for service to the
(MBA). “Amiee and I had our second
and provided individual career and life-coaching sessions to
university, the university community, and the public policy
child in February, Sofia Isadora Alto-
conference attendees.
mare. Her big brother, Lorenzo, is doing great and loves trucks!”
program.
2001
“I think about my two Suffolk experiences fondly and with
1995
Aurelio Manuel Valente (MEd) is currently a doctoral
“I am currently living in Vermont and am the alumni relations
student in higher education. His first manuscript, entitled
appreciation,” writes Kathryn Fisher (BS ’79, MPA). “I am
director at Vermont Law School,” writes Annie Janeway
“Passion and Purpose: Best Practices and Strategies for In-
currently residing in Nashua and working in Goffstown, NH,
(MEd). “After being part of the development office at a Mas-
tegrating Service-Learning in the First Year of College,” will
as the executive secretary for the town administrator and
sachusetts prep school and three liberal arts colleges, I am
be published in the July issue of the Journal of College and
board of selectmen. This is a career change for me since I
trying out work in the graduate school arena. I appreciate
Character. Aurelio is also working with colleagues on a chap-
left being a paralegal last year after 26 years in that field.
reading Suffolk Alumni Magazine as I help put together the
ter called “Ethics in Higher Education” for the third edition of
I have finally been able to cross over using the master’s
law school magazine for VLS. The Suffolk magazine is impres-
the Handbook for Student Affairs.
degree that I earned in 2001. I am busy with two grown
daughters and a marvelous, smart grandson, Jakob. My
sive and a good model.”
2000
youngest daughter is about to finish her four-year degree
1996
Ruth Hegarty (BA ’98, MS) was a featured speaker at
in the fall and displays a lot of my own intellectual bent
“I was awarded outstanding faculty member of the Sawyer
the Business and Professional Women/USA 2007 National
and academic achievements. My oldest daughter is very
Business School for 2007 by the Student Government Associ-
successful as the assistant director of Knowledge Begin-
ation,” writes William F. Mee (MBA). “I have been instruct-
nings Daycare in Chelmsford, MA. I miss all my fellow stu-
ing at the SBS since fall 1996 as an adjunct professor, and
dents and professors who have definitely shaped my life.”
for the past three years as an instructor in the information
2003 > Reunion June 13-15, 2008
systems and operations management department.”
Erin Brick-McManus (MEd) recently moved to Suwanee,
Susan Scott (EMBA) writes, “I
GA, and works as an admissions advisor at Life University in
am a senior consultant at Calyp-
Marietta, GA.
tus Group and have been selected
to present a paper entitled, ‘The Role
“Since graduating from Suffolk University in 2003 with my
of Social Capital in Creating Effective
MBA, I have started a number of businesses that have been
Global Supply Chains’ at the Acad-
How to Get Arrested:
emy of International Business (AIB)
A Motivational Story for Actors
conference in Indianapolis.” The paper is a precursor to her
by Michael J. Wallach (JD’74)
successful,” writes Linda Samuels (EMBA). Examples include Premier Capital, which offers alternative financing and
consulting for businesses; The Science of Learning Center, offering academic tutoring in all subjects; and Focus Technology,
dissertation as she pursues a doctorate in business admin-
1997
“My daughter, Mckinlee Anne, is almost four months old (born March
8),” Heather Hodgson (EMBA)
writes. “She went on her first hike in
NH and has also worked with me in
my business, Unpacking Solutions, just listed on Angie’s List in
The conventional wisdom in Hollywood that it’s
a manufacturer of an iPod-like device that improves memory
all about who you know is debunked by Michael
istration.
and reduces stress. “My newest business, BillionaireBabies,
J. Wallach (JD’74) in his book How to Get Arrested:
provides seminars, products, and success coaching to em-
A Motivational Story for Actors. After a brief ten-
power children of all ages to start successful businesses. My
ure with the District Attorney’s Office in Queens,
son, Charles, just received his PhD in mathematics from the
Wallach applied his knowledge of the law to the
University of Texas; my daughter, Marilyn, is working in hospi-
entertainment business. Managing the careers of
actors for over 20 years and teaching a popular
course, “The Business of Acting,” for UCLA Extension, convinced him that it’s possible to succeed
Boston as an outstanding service provider. It is a small family
with no connections. His advice is outlined in a
business that provides services to those who are moving. Our
reader-friendly novella following two actors on a
unique niche is unpacking and putting your home in order
quest for stardom. Yet the book is designed for
after a move. I would love to see classmates at the clambake
at the Crane Estate; it’s been ten years since we finished.”
those seeking inspiration in any profession.
tal administration; and my son-in-law, Sam, is an assistant professor at Tufts University. Sam and Marilyn have two children:
three-and-a-half year-old Abigail and two-year-old Sophia.
2004
Karmle L. Conrad (MHA) writes “I have left Impact, Inc.,
and decided to expand my small business. The Mind Body
Soul Connection has now become The Conrad Center. “
“Things are great!,” writes Sean Glennon (BA ’’01, MSPS).
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LAW
“I got married last year to my high-school sweetheart and
we bought a house in Quincy. We are co-directors of a com-
already out of college (Duke and Columbia). My youngest
daughter is in her last year of high school.”
munity choir in Quincy that we established three years ago.
1955
I work for the City of Quincy in the department of planning
For the past 15 years, Ronald D.J. Saloman (JD) has served
1982
and community development. I ad-
as the chief stadium announcer for the Eastern Region of Lit-
Tom Doyle (JD) sends greetings from Tuscany. “I’m email-
minister federal grant programs, and
tle League Baseball, which covers 11 states and the District
ing this message from the emergency room of a rural hospi-
serve as the city’s representative on
of Columbia. In August, he served in this volunteer position
tal in Castelfiorentino, Italy, where I am with my 18-year-old
the Boston Harbor Islands Advisory
again at the annual regional tournament in Bristol, CT.
son who is suffering apparently from his first flight-induced
migraine. We are here celebrating his acceptance to Mid-
Council.” Sean misses Beacon Hill
and always enjoys coming back to
1972
dlebury College and my wife’s 50th birthday. A trip to the
Suffolk for various events.
“It is with great sadness that I report the death of Avrom
emergency room was not on our itinerary, but that’s life.”
Herbster, a Law School graduate, Class of 1972,” writes Bob
Alissa Porcaro (MBA) wel-
Damiano (JD). “Avrom was a lifelong resident of Peabody,
“Margo (Haist) (JD 81) and I will be empty nesters in the
comed her second daughter,
MA, and a graduate of Boston University prior to his entry
fall,” writes Edward L. Wallack (JD). Their daughter, Court-
Megan Elisabeth, in January.
into the Suffolk Law community. He was one of the most
ney, is starting her freshman year at Hobart and William Smith
“The entire family took part
popular students at the Law School during his three-year at-
Colleges, and their son, Zachary, will be a junior at Syracuse
in their fifth Race for the Cure
tendance. Following graduation, he entered the National La-
University. “Sapers & Wallack moved to Newton Corner after
in Hartford, CT, on June 2 in
bor Relations Board at the Washington, D.C., office where he
19 years in Cambridge, which means I can easily meet Margo
memory of my mother-in-law, Ann Porcaro,” Alissa writes.
worked for three years, then transferring to Boston. He rose
for lunch after she finishes teaching her reading classes at
to the level of hearing officer until he left in 2006, due to the
the Cabot Elementary School.”
2005
serious illness that ended his life on March 1.” A true Suffolk
Kimberly Clapp (MSMHC, MSCJ) married Robert J. Silva
supporter and proud graduate, Avrom will be missed dearly
III on July 14. The ceremony took place at St. Richard Parish
by all who had the pleasure of knowing him.
1983 > Reunion June 13-15, 2008
When Gerald Heng’s (JD)
daughter was six, she had to
in Danvers, MA, and the reception was held at Danversport
1974
sit though her father’s Doctor
Robert A. Faneuil (JD) is now representing athletes as
of Jurisprudence award at Suf-
Chris Bogdanovitch (MHA) has been promoted to senior
well as radio and television personalities, including himself.
folk. Gerald and Eileen Heng,
therapeutic specialty consultant at Pfizer Pharmaceuticals in
“I co-anchor a sports talks show called ‘The Rob and Bob
Dad and Mom to Sharmaine
Boston, MA.
Show’ on WBNW 1120 AM (Boston). I look forward to taking
Heng, [returned] the favor by attending Philadelphia Music
calls from my fellow alumni.”
Hall for her Doctor of Jurisprudence award on May 15, 2006.
“My book for actors, How to Get Arrested: a Motivational
1987
Story for Actors, was picked up by a national book distributor
“I have been practicing criminal defense in New York City for
Yacht Club.
John Ryan (MBA) has been appointed to the board of directors of the Massachusetts March of Dimes.
Daniel M. Sigel (MEd) coordinated the U.S. men’s and
and will be re-released this September,” Michael J. Wal-
almost 20 years now,” writes Javier Damien (JD). “I also
women’s ultimate Frisbee teams for the 2007 Pan American
lach (JD) writes. “Previously, I handled sales, which suddenly
live and practice criminal defense in New Jersey. I have been
Games, held August 6-12 in Mexico City.
took off after receiving attention by the industry in Holly-
a frequent ‘talking head legal expert’ on Court TV for the last
wood.” A major Hollywood studio is in the planning stages of
four years. I also appear on Fox News TV and CNN. Personal-
producing a reality show based on the book.
ly, I am an avid snow skier and marathon runner. I completed
2006
my 11th marathon in Big Sur, CA, in April. I look forward to
“For those of you who don’t know, Hope and I are expecting our ‘first’ this November, on Thanksgiving Day,” writes
1977 > Reunion June 13-15, 2008
completing my 12th marathon in Quebec City, Canada. I’m
James Davenport (MBA). James works at MassMutual.
Paul G. Keough (JD) is married with four kids, ages twelve,
glad to see that Suffolk Law is getting the respect and cover-
nine, seven, and four. The family lives in Roslindale, MA.
age it deserves. The new law school is beautiful.”
Robert Fortes (MPA) is the assistant general manager for
1981
1988 > Reunion June 13-15, 2008
strategic planning and performance at the Massachusetts
“I now reside in Waltham where I have opened a meal as-
“I could go on and on about Suffolk
Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA). “So,” he writes, “it is a
sembly business called ‘The Supper Shop,’ writes Cath-
University and what it did for me
very good thing I just recently completed Professor Gregg’s
erine (Rohrs) Matthews (JD). “It’s been a lot of fun for a
and what a difference it has made
class.”
mature woman to start a business, learn all about comput-
in my life,” writes Donna A. Dan-
2007
ers, accounting, and marketing. I still keep my Indiana law
iels (JD). “I grew up in Boston with
license current, though. I have three daughters and two are
five children in our family. My father
died when I was a teenager. Suffolk
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a hefty 10 pounds and 9 ounces and
trace much of whatever success I have had in my life to Suf-
Krystal Lyerly (JD) lives in Boynton Beach, FL, and is corpo-
is just perfect (see photo for proof!)
folk Law School—Professors Fenton, Sargent, Kate Day, Joe
rate counsel in Boca Raton, FL.
He has been lucky enough to have a
Cronin—the list goes on. Presently, I am in private practice
dozen Suffolk alums come visit and
and live in Newton, MA, with my husband, Charles Kouyoum-
A lot has happened in the life of Jessica Reilly (JD). “I recent-
welcome him into the world! Two of
jian, and our twin sons, Richard and Alexander.”
ly had a beautiful baby boy,” she writes. “Jackson Buck Razza
Jackson’s grandparents (Michael S. Razza and Barbara
was born on April 2 at Brigham and Women’s. He weighed
N. Mason) also attended Suffolk Law School.”
The Milton Hoosic Club was the venue for the May 27 wed-
2004
ding of Denise I. Murphy (JD), a partner at Rubin and
Rudman, LLP, and David W. White, a principal at Breakstone,
White & Gluck, PC, and incoming president of the Massachusetts Bar Association. The bride was escorted by her two
sons, William and Scott Weinstein. The groom was accompa-
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nied by his two children, Amanda and Daniel White-Lief. The
career changes to family news. And now, with Suffolk
couple will reside in Westwood with their children and plan a
Alumni Magazine’s expanded class notes section,
Andrea (Carroll) Haney (JD) and Brian M. Haney (JD)
were married in October 2006 in Osterville, MA. Andrea is
employed in the office of the general counsel at Brown
Brothers Harriman & Co. Brian is an associate with the law
firm of Cooley Manion Jones, LLP. Brian and Andrea honeymooned in Los Cabos, Mexico and reside in Boston.
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2005
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“I have a full life with my own
Judy (Loitherstein) Kalisker (JD) writes, “I’m working
Here’s a SAMple:
practice and with my five chil-
as director of corporate integrity in the legal department of
“Hi, SAM: My name is John Doe (BSBA in Finance, 2002),
dren,” writes Wayne Car-
Boston Scientific Corporation, based in Natick, MA. I was
and I’ve been very busy since graduation. I’m now work-
roll (JD), who established a
married in 2006 to Martin Kalisker, and we live in Natick with
our two beagles.”
ing at Smith & Brown Financial Services in Providence,
RI, where I have relocated with my family. My wife Sarah
and I recently adopted our first child, Scarlet Rose, a
beautiful toddler from South Africa. We just returned
1993 > Reunion June 13-15, 2008
Paul McCarthy (JD) was appointed senior associate athletic director at the University of Connecticut.
boutique patent-law practice
in Arizona. Wayne volunteers
as a cub scout master for his sons’ cub scout pack.
from a family vacation in Disneyland. The West coast
was nice, but we’d never leave our New England roots!”
Krista (Zanin) Griffith (JD) married Ted Griffith in Septem-
SAM class notes can run from a line to a paragraph.
ber 2005. “We live in Wilmington, DE, where I am a deputy
Longer submissions may be edited for space and con-
1998 > Reunion June 13-15, 2008
Lynne Afrow Ellis (JD) welcomed her daughter, Abigail
Dayne Ellis, on May 24. She is married to Matt Ellis and works
in the legal office of Partners Health Care.
attorney general for the Delaware Department of Justice,”
tent. We welcome photographs. Electronic submissions
Krista writes. “Last year, I served as a law clerk to the Hon-
should be high resolution (300 dpi minimum).
orable James T. Vaughn Jr., president judge of the Delaware
Via Web:
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Maureen Pomeroy (JD) mar-
classnotes@suffolk.edu
Country Club. Several other Suffolk Law School graduates from
1998 and 1999 attended the ceremony and reception.
2000
2006
Last spring, while a fourth–year evening student at the Law
School, J. Alain Ferry (JD) created a website for his soft-
ried Bill Bushee in Atkinson, NH,
in August 2006 at the Atkinson
Superior Court.”
www.suffolk.edu/alumni
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Suffolk Alumni Magazine
ware law class with Professor Kirk Teska. That project received national press and grew into what is now a lost items
8 Ashburton Place
recovery service, helping people anonymously recover their
Boston, MA 02108
lost valuables. Alain’s venture will be profiled on a nationally-
Congratulations to Dino M. Colucci JD ‘88
broadcast investigative news program on iPod theft.
whose name was chosen in a random drawing from the
Mary Garippo (JD) and David Griffin (JD) welcomed
scores of alumni who submitted their class notes for
Dennis E. Healy (JD) and Jessica L. Ziady (JD) were mar-
their son, Matthew, on May 17. He joins three-year-old
the fall 2007 issue of SAM. Dino won tickets to a Boston
ried on March 3 in Miami, FL. Vanessa Fazio (JD) was in
brother, Steven. Mary is an assistant general counsel at
Red Sox game.
the wedding. Jessica is an assistant district attorney at the
the Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents, and
To enter the drawing for the winter issue of SAM,
Brockton District Court, and Dennis is working temporarily at
Dave has his own law practice in Boston. The family lives in
submit your news via web or e-mail. From class notes
downtown Boston.
a firm in Belmont, MA.
submitted electronically by October 29, 2007,
one name will be selected randomly. S/he and a guest
will attend Suffolk Alumni Celtics Night at TD Banknorth
Garden February 13th, 2008.
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�BY NEIL O’CALLAGHAN BSBA ‘00
Striking Out at the Improv
T
HE ALARM GOES OFF BUT I’m already
awake. I had tossed and turned through
the night, enduring what could at best
be described as restless slumber. I tried focusing
on my breathing. I read books. I drank milk. I
counted sheep. I did everything short of running
in place while reciting state capitals. Welcome
to a typical night before an audition.
When I moved to Chicago to pursue improv
and acting, I knew auditioning would be part of
the package. I consider myself an able performer
and a quick-witted improviser, but under the
microscope, I tend to get locked inside my head.
It’s not unlike in baseball when a hitter slumps.
Any batting coach worth his salt will tell you the
worst thing a hitter can do is think.
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I arrive at the middle school classroom wearing
a softball shirt for my doubleheader after today’s
improv audition. The role is with the stage
troupe “Chemically Imbalanced Comedy.” It’s an
unwritten rule that all improv companies and
shows be named after some groan-inducing pun
(“Bird Flu over the Cuckoo’s Nest”) or logical
improbability (“Postcards from Prison” – my
previous troupe).
I know I’ll have to exhibit trust around complete
strangers – the type of trust that only comes with
years of camping trips. I must make myself look
good under the guise of making others look good,
but not so good that they look better than me.
When not performing, I’ll have to laugh at what
others are doing to appear supportive, but not
too loud or hard in the event that no one laughs
at anything I do.
I hand my resume and headshot to the woman
running the show. After a few warm-ups, we
dive into the bread and butter of improv – twoperson scenes. The back row of the classroom
is comprised of folks currently in the group.
Someone calls out my name and I step forward.
There is no suggestion to start the scene, so I start
fumbling around with some imaginary objects
on a counter. My scene partner enters and refers
to me as “Doctor.” I make my character a loud,
bombastic mad scientist and she becomes my
assistant. It turns into a great scene in which my
assistant is only aiding my insane experiments
as a means to college internship credits. At
least I thought it was great. Judging from the
lack of response, maybe it was too over-the-top
for this crowd. My heart begins to race, but I’m
confident I’ll rebound in my next scene.
This time, a woman plays an athleticallychallenged nerd. I decide I’ll be a nerd too, but
one who excels at whatever sports he tries. My
partner and I exhibit real on-stage chemistry, but
again there is little reaction from the back row.
Finally, I decide that whatever the scenario for
my last scene, I’m going to play it straight and
say as few words as possible. Unfortunately, this
strategy only seems to annoy my zany partnerand it’s my final shot.
Two warm-ups and three scenes over, the
current members of this troupe have seen all
they need to see. Leaving the building, I know
I’m not going to get a callback unless they
need someone to clean the theatre after their
new cast performs. Regardless, I take notes,
deciding what I’ll work on before rushing off
to my softball game. I go 3-for-4 with a home
run and three runs scored in our first win of the
season. And as long as I remain at the top of my
game, I resolve not to lose any sleep over my
next audition. In my dreams. S
Neil O’Callaghan, a former columnist and editor-in-chief of
The Suffolk Journal, is PhD coordinator for the Department
of English at University of Illinois at Chicago. O’Callaghan
is currently taking classes at Improv Olympic.
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Suffolk University Sawyer Business School Commencement
Sunday, May 19, 2019
Rockland Trust Bank Pavilion
Commencement Speaker
Gene Lee
President and CEO
Darden Restaurants, Inc.
Dean O’Neill, President Kelly, Chairman Lamb, members of the Board of Trustees,
distinguished faculty, parents and families, fellow alumni, and most importantly, to the
members of the class of 2019, congratulations from me.
And thank you for that kind and generous introduction.
Growing up about 20 miles west of here, this knucklehead from Framingham never
imagined he would be standing before you this morning.
I would also like to thank my wife Amy for her love and support through the last 28
years. I would not be here today without you, and to my two daughters, Samantha and
Jamie, for their love and support and understanding the demands of my job. It’s been
great to watch you both grow and become the wonderful young ladies you are today.
And, if I am being honest, this isn’t the first time I have been in a situation that my
younger self would find difficult to comprehend. My journey to becoming the president
and CEO of Darden Restaurants was anything but traditional.
Like many of you, I grew up in a blue collar, lower middle-class family with loving
parents who never prioritized their own formal education – but had very high
expectations when it came to my education. I was an average student. Okay, maybe a
little below average. But I never applied myself and the harder my parents pushed me,
the more I ignored them.
See, for as long as I can remember, my priority was sports. All I wanted was a ball in my
hand – a basketball, a football or a baseball. Like so many kids, I believed my future
was on a field or a court. Reality hit me hard when I was 16. I was cut from my high
school basketball team. I was crushed. The final harsh realization that I was not going to
be a professional athlete.
So, where does a 16 year old boy turn when his dreams are shattered? My parents
hoped this would be the jolt I needed to focus on studying and improve my grades. I had
a different idea. I was going to get a job. If I wasn’t going to play organized ball, I was
going to make some money and buy a car. Truth be told, I really wanted to make money
to buy beer. And this was the beginning of my restaurant career. I started as a busboy
at York Steakhouse in Natick, Massachusetts, that winter.
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�And while I got off to a slow start – I almost quit or got fired multiple times in the first
couple of months – I quickly climbed the ranks as my managers gave me more and
more responsibility. I worked a lot in my senior year in high school. I even skipped
school to work, which right now makes no sense to me, but I had finally found
something I was really good at. I found I could still be part of a great team working
toward a common goal.
I went off to college that fall, but it wasn’t for me. So, at the end of my freshman year, I
decided to take a break from school and join the management training program at York
Steakhouse. I vividly remember telling my dad I was leaving school. It was the first time
I knew I had truly disappointed him. But he never gave up. For the next ten years he
would find every opportunity to remind me that it wasn’t too late to go back to school
and then get a real job.
But I had found a home in the restaurant industry. I began to have success. I quickly
moved up the corporate ranks in the industry, eventually becoming vice president of
operations for Pizzeria Uno. But I came to realize that if I wanted to continue to grow
professionally, I needed a formal education. That’s when I discovered Suffolk. In the fall
of 1994 I entered the executive MBA program. I owe this university a debt of gratitude.
They took a chance on an unproven student. It was a wonderful experience. I had great
professors and a smart, engaged, thoughtful cohort. The professional success I have
achieved would not have been possible without the foundation I received here at this
great institution.
I will be forever grateful to Suffolk, and I am proud to see that students are still afforded
the opportunity to receive a world-class education based on their potential success.
I have had a wonderful career and I’m an example of what you can accomplish with
hard work, perseverance, and a little luck along the way. I’m an optimist and still believe
the American dream is alive and well. I’m excited for you as you enter the next chapter
of your life. Don’t listen to those who tell you that opportunities don’t exist anymore. We
have been here before. This country has survived the agricultural revolution, the
industrial revolution, and now the information revolution. As the world continues to
evolve, there will be plenty of opportunity for those who are able to find their place and
work hard.
I have learned a lot over my 30-plus year career. And as I reflect on what has made the
difference for me, three things come to mind. One, a passion for lifelong learning; two,
an ability to prioritize; and three, the critical importance of trust in building relationships.
I hope that sharing my thoughts on these important topics will help guide you as you
begin the next phase of your lives.
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�Let’s start with the topic of lifelong learning. You leave Suffolk today with the
foundational knowledge you need to begin your journey, and there will be countless
opportunities to continue to learn and grow. But I want to focus on experiential learning.
Without exception, you have grown and matured during your time at Suffolk, but it’s
important to acknowledge that you are relatively inexperienced in all facets of life,
especially business. When I reflect on my own career, I realize just how unprepared I
was for the responsibilities I had. But back then, I thought I knew everything. As I
continued to learn and have different experiences, I realized how little I really did know.
Today, the more I learn through my experiences, the more uncertain I am of the
answers to the questions I was sure I had the answers to when I was younger.
It’s my belief the key to continuous learning is curiosity. The one characteristic I see in
all successful business people is that they are extremely curious. They are interested in
the why not just the what. They enjoy the process of completing the task and want to
understand the details. Being curious will continue to build on what you have learned at
Suffolk.
Who you work with and who you choose to be your mentors will have an impact on your
learning journey. You want to work with people who involve you as much as possible.
Ben Franklin said, “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I remember, involve me and I
learn.” It’s imperative for you to find ways to be involved and, more importantly, be the
person everyone wants to involve because you add value.
As people go through their career and life, I see them make what I believe to be a big
mistake. Through feedback mechanisms, annual reviews, 360-degree assessments,
and other tools, people hear quite a bit about their weaknesses and not enough
acknowledgement of their strengths. Don’t misunderstand, it is important to
acknowledge that we are not perfect, but we should learn how to minimize our
weaknesses and focus time and attention on enhancing our strengths. In my 30-plus
years of leading people, I have never seen anyone turn a true weakness into a strength.
Learning to deal with setbacks is an important part of life. I’ve dealt with multiple
setbacks in my career, especially early on. There were many times I thought I should
have been promoted and someone else got the opportunity. Dealing with
disappointment and striving to improve my performance, I was better prepared the next
time an opportunity presented itself. Now, looking back, I can clearly see why those
decisions were made. Everyone will face setbacks in their career and for that matter life.
How you learn to handle those situations will be defining moments for you.
I encourage you to continue to build on the strong foundation you have poured at
Suffolk. Be curious, learn to love what you are good at, and embrace the inevitable
challenges you will face along the way.
In my role today, the question I’m asked the most is how can I maintain balance and
have the quality of life I want while having a successful career. My answer is simple,
challenging, and disappointing all at the same time. The only way to achieve your
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�personal and professional goals is to effectively prioritize all aspects of your life. Let’s
unpack what it means to prioritize.
First, let’s look at the definition of priority – a thing that is regarded as more important
than another. So by definition, every aspect of your life can be ranked by level of
importance to you. My suggestion is to break your life into three components: self-care,
care of others, and career. Then rank what is most important to you. Throughout your
life your priorities will change and they should change. But right now, you have to rank
these areas and understand the consequences of those rankings. There is no personal
or professional success without sacrifice.
However, I do believe you can find balance. The key is the effective prioritization within
each component. Clearly defining for yourself what’s most important to you inside these
areas and managing your time effectively will lead to a feeling of balance. But, it’s very
important that you realize that everything can’t be a priority, and you have to make
difficult decisions in the prioritization process.
I learned how important this is when I began the Executive MBA program at Suffolk. I
was learning a new job, I was recently married, and I was about to become a dad for the
first time. It was the worst possible time for me to take on another priority. But I knew
this opportunity at Suffolk was critical to my future and my family’s future, so I had to
figure it out. I sacrificed self-care and care of others to focus on furthering my education
and ultimately my career. It was never easy, but it was the right prioritization for me at
that moment in my life. It also forced me to excel at time management. Distinguishing
between the important and the urgent is critical for long-term personal and professional
success.
And lastly, I want to share my thoughts on trust. Building relationships is extremely
important to achieving professional success and relationships need to be built on trust.
Throughout your career you will decide who to trust – leaders, peers, and employees.
And more importantly, through your behaviors you have to earn the trust from that same
group of people.
I want to quickly share how I think about this very important word – trust. It’s simple to
me. Trust equals judgment plus ethics. Trust equals judgment plus ethics. For me to
trust someone in my organization I need to observe sound decision making over time
and see them consistently and unequivocally live our company’s values.
Part of assessing whether or not someone has good judgment, is observing with whom
they choose to surround themselves. I advise young leaders in my organization to
assemble a personal board of directors made up of family, friends, colleagues, and
mentors to act as informal advisers. And I urge all of you to do the same. Who will you
choose? Who will influence you? Do these individuals reflect your personal values? Do
they understand and align with your goals and dreams? Will they be truth-tellers? Will
they be cheerleaders? Will they make you better?
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�As you navigate your journey through life, just as your priorities will change, so will your
personal board of directors. Choose wisely and don’t be afraid to make changes when
necessary.
I may still be that knucklehead from Framingham, but even I know that brevity in this
moment is appreciated. Let me leave you with one last thought.
There are three types of people in the world. Those who are wondering what’s going on,
those who are watching what’s going on, and those who are making things happen
I hope you, the Class of 2019, will be one of those.
Now, you may not remember a word I said today, but hopefully you will remember me
as the guy who bought you dinner. For all the graduates, under your chair you will find a
$100 gift card to any Darden restaurant. And for those who care, the Capital Grille is on
there. The logo’s not there. Fellow alumni, I wish you much success. Enjoy your
journey, take care.
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Suffolk University Law School Commencement
Sunday, May 19, 2019
Rockland Trust Bank Pavilion
Commencement Speaker
U.S. Representative Joseph P. Kennedy III
Ilene [Law Professor Ilene Seidman], thank you for that extraordinary introduction. Most
importantly, your decades of dedication to ensuring that our nation makes good on our
promise of equal justice. Your example is inspiring. It is urgent and today it is
necessary. On your own and through the students that you mentor, you’ve raised up
countless families and you have strengthened our Commonwealth. Thank you. We are
all grateful.
I know I speak for everyone gathered here this afternoon when I say that my heart goes
out to President Kelly. In less than a year I know how engrained she has become in this
University and with all the students and faculty, who call it home. My thoughts, and I’m
sure all of our thoughts are with her today.
Dean Perlman, in spite of all of your obligations, you have never stopped in your pursuit
of a more just society. You are a valuable, irreplaceable, resource for the students and
faculty who admire you and we are lucky to have you as Dean. Thank you sir.
To the trustees, board, deans, faculty, and whichever poor soul thought I was deserving
an honorary degree, thank you. And let me say how honored I am to officially become
part of the best alumni network in New England. Now I won’t get all those weird looks
when I crash those alumni parties in D.C. and Boston, so that’s a plus. To your student
speaker, Sara, given what Mackenzie just did, I am so grateful that I am your warmup
act and not following you. I know you’re going to crush it. Congratulations and good
luck.
And to the family and friends joining us today, thank you. And I mean that. Thank you. I
was in law school once and I know that you’ve been listening to daily complaints for
years. The Class of 2019 would not be here today without you, and I’m sure that they
know it. So, please, fellow graduates, please stand and give a warm round of applause
to your loved ones behind you because they certainly deserve it.
And now, let’s return the favor. Class of 2019, congratulations. You guys made it. And
you’re late for bar review. Congratulations. The worst part about graduating from law
school.
Beautiful Boston spring days, supposedly. Missed while you locked yourself in Moakley
Law Library. The late nights drinking alone at SideBar after you forgot a legal definition
in front of your whole class. Three duck boat tours spent dodging flying beer cans and
worshipping sports gods that have blessed Title Town, USA. And one more coming in
about 10 day’s folks. Brutal karaoke. Riveting kickball and impossible trivial during 1L
cup, only to spend your remaining years listening to brags from section C. There you
go. I’ll never let you live it down. And now, all that stands between you and a diploma is
�a ruthless graduation week hangover and me, one of the only Democrats who does not
have to rush off to Iowa or New Hampshire. And you guys thought you’d make it home
to see Sansa claim the Iron Throne. Hah! Settle in.
Class of 2019, last week I found myself delivering a commencement speech to the
students at Lasell College, and the single best piece of advice I could give them was
don’t go to law school. A little late for all of you. So, I’ll spend the next few minutes
telling you what I’ve learned since leaving the seats that you are in today. That starts in
a small town in the Dominican Republic where I was a Peace Corp volunteer shortly
after graduating from college. I worked with a group of young men who were exploited
by international tour companies. They guided tourists up a spectacular set of waterfalls
in a remote mountainous rainforest. Together we leveraged a little-used law to put the
area under local control. Thereby allowing those guys to earn fair wages and convert
this natural resource into an economic engine for local empowerment. Wages went up.
The organization made some money. The environment was better protected. The
community benefited. All because of the power of the law.
Barely a mile away, a community of Haitian sugar cane workers was almost entirely
outside the law’s protection. They lived in barns, a family to a stall. No reliable
electricity, running water, or sanitation. Daily life was a struggle despite laws written to
prohibit such exploitation. I was stunned. Yet, some of the very same Dominicans who
welcomed me, cared for me, showed little sympathy. There’s no racism here they
insisted. If those laws didn’t protect them that was their fault. How could that be? How
could laws be ignored so blatantly by good people, an obvious service of racial bias and
economic exploitation without consequences? These questions left unanswered are a
big part of how I ended up in law school. I didn’t find a whole lot of answers in my 1L
classes either. Now, now. But a legal aid clinic helped slow the gap between the laws in
the books and the practice in a courtroom. I spent much of my last two years helping
tenants who were being evicted when a landlord defaulted on a mortgage. It was the
height of the foreclosure crisis, when bankers should have known better, teaser rates
spiked, homeowners went bankrupt. Renter’s homes turned to ruins. And working
families were left trying to piece their lives together.
A few moments in Boston Housing Court was quite an education. Case after case,
family after family, ruling after ruling, default judgment after default judgment. Lives
upended. Dreams deferred. And their questions unanswered. The families we helped
were subject to the very same laws that lay beyond the reach of those we didn’t. What
separated who came through a system with a fairer outcome and those who didn’t was
simply the presence of a lawyer.
After graduating I became an assistant district attorney where all of that law that you
spent studying becomes real, real quick. And you learn an awful lot of what they don’t
teach you in law school. About kids breaking into cars and homes to grab valuables and
turn them into quick cash to satiate an opioid addiction. About a homeless vet, arrested
for disturbing the peace, his underlying offense was mental illness and no place to go.
About the old, the sick, the isolated, the infirm, the different who are too vulnerable to
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�testify and thus, a perfect victim. About people like Jimmy. One day in the Falmouth
District Court, buried in a mountain of cases, my ear caught the judge addressing a
defendant by name during his arraignment. How are you? What are you doing here?
Are you sure this is what you want to do? I looked at a supervisor and she pulled me
aside. Jimmy was well known around town. He was harmless. He was homeless. He
had a lengthy record of petty offenses. It was starting to get cold and he needed a place
to stay. So, he would go out, steal something, get arrested, arraigned, receive a bail
warning not to commit another offense. Then he would go do it again, in the hopes, in
the hopes of getting his bail revoked, spending the winter behind bars with a roof over
his head and three meals a day.
What an indictment of today’s America. What a judgment. The laws that we have
written, the protections selectively enforced. Systemic inequities allowed to persist. [It]
motivated me to try to run for Congress where representatives are supposed to be able
to try to rebalance the scales to hear every American voice. It didn’t take long to learn
that those skills weren’t limited, weren’t tilted rather by voices, but power. It isn’t often a
Jimmy’s standing at my door telling me what our system could have done or still could
do to ease his burden. Someone with resources, with time, expendable energy to
organize materials, leverage statistics and studies, travel to Washington and make their
case. It has been yet another reminder of a wearying disparity between those with
access to power and therefore, access to the law and all of its protections, and those
who can’t or who are too tired, too exhausted, too worn out to do so.
Class of 2019, this is the system you inherit. It is a system in dire need of an upgrade, of
bright ideas, of bold thinking, of a generation that believes that our practice of law can
one day, with enough effort and sweat and tears bring about that perfect union. And
since that day you stepped foot into Suffolk Law you have not asked for permission or
waited for validation of a diploma to do your part. Suffolk Law students have already
contributed more than 32,000 hours of free legal service to your neighbors. Neighbors
facing eviction and racism, claiming asylum, fleeing domestic violence, and asking for
justice when wrongfully accused.
Students like Justin Rhuda who spent two years fighting ISIS in Iraq and Syria only to
return to the United States, enroll in law school and work pro bono for Veterans Legal
Service. He’s already saved the little roof over the head of one former U.S. prisoner of
war, his family teetering on the precipice of homelessness.
Students like Kelly Vieira who refused to be told what she could and couldn’t become.
She was a champion in the school’s Women of Color Law Student Association, and will
stand as a beacon of hope and justice in our Commonwealth’s courtrooms as an
assistant district attorney.
Students who rushed into the Marshall-Brennan Program to coach students in Boston’s
public schools about what the law means, how it’s enforced, and why it matters.
Students who have fought housing discrimination and brought enforcement actions
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�against landlords and companies who denied a home to someone because of their
race, disability, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
Graduates, the last thing in the world you need is my advice. You didn’t take out all
those student loans to have a member of Congress tell you that our nation’s pursuit of
justice has not been perfect. But instead, I leave you with a challenge. Use your
knowledge. Use that passion to demand that laws empower rather than exclude.
Because today, today, our law becomes your vocation, your calling, your career, and
your life. And you become its heart. Today the legal system that you have studied can
no longer be kept at arm’s length. It is comprised of you and of me, of the graduates to
your left and right, lawyers, activists, and advocates that have dedicated their lives to
ensure its continued evolution and expansion.
And now, it is your turn. You must advocate for it. You must shield it. You must
strengthen it. You must enable it for those beyond its touch. Be aware of this system
that you inherit, with all of its strengths and failures. Be respectful of a field to which you
have dedicated your lives. Be humble enough to know that you will practice the law, you
will not perfect it, and bold enough to try anyway. Find your own version of Jimmy and
do not forget him.
Class of 2019, this country needs you. I know you will not let her down. Congratulations
to each and every one of you.
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Suffolk University Law School Alumni Magazine
e-Leaks: Byte
Data with a Dangerous
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CALENDAR 2005–06
UPCOMING EVENTS
ADVANCED LEGAL STUDIES
ALUMNI EVENTS
All courses are held at Sargent Hall unless
otherwise noted. The following schedule is
tentative. Contact ALS Director Carole
Wagan for more information at
617.573.8627, als@suffolk.edu or
visit www.law.suffolk.edu/als.
For more information, contact
the Office of Alumni Relations
at 617.305.1999 or visit
www.law.suffolk.edu.
JUNE
Alumni Afternoon at the
Pawtucket Red Sox
Pawtucket Red Sox vs. Red Wings
Sunday, August 21
11am buffet, 1pm game
9th Annual PawSox Fan Fest
following the game
McCoy Stadium, Pawtucket, RI
Confronting Crawford: Understanding
Its Meaning and Impact
Thursday, September 22
Current Legal Issues in Higher Education
Friday, September 30
OCTOBER
North Shore Alumni
Essex River Cocktail Cruise
Wednesday, June 22
6pm
Essex, MA
JULY
Boston Chapter 1st Thursday Happy Hour
Thursday, July 7
6:30-8:30pm
Hub Pub, Boston
Boston Chapter Schooner Sailing
Saturday, July 23
6-8pm
Salem, MA
Alumni Night at Fenway Park
Boston Red Sox vs. Minnesota Twins
Friday, July 29
7pm
AUGUST
Alumni Night at the Lowell Spinners
Saturday, August 6
3:30pm Buffet at the Gator Pit
5pm Game
Alumni Afternoon at Tanglewood
Sunday, August 14
2:30pm concert
4:30pm reception
Lenox, MA
Have you moved?
Please send your change of address to:
Office of Alumni Relations
Suffolk University Law School
120 Tremont Street
Boston, MA 02108
617.305.1999
fax: 617.573.8151
email: lawalumni@suffolk.edu
Alumni Night at Fenway Park
Boston Red Sox vs. Detroit Tigers
Friday, August 26
7pm
SEPTEMBER
Principles & Pitfalls of Contract Drafting
Thursdays: September 15 and 29
Critical Federal & State Developments in
Medicaid & Trusts: 8th Annual Northeast
Elder Law Symposium
Friday, September 16
Southbridge, MA
Alumni Association
Board of Directors Meeting
Saturday, September 17
8:30am
Sargent Hall, Boston
Dean’s Advisory Committee Meeting
Friday and Saturday,
September 30 and October 1
Sargent Hall, Boston
New York Chapter
Alumni Tour and Luncheon
Museum of Modern Art
Saturday, October 22
11:20am
New York City, NY
Labor and Employment Issues
in Immigration Law
Thursday, October 27
33rd Annual National Labor Relations
Board/Department of Labor Conference
Thursday, October 27
NOVEMBER
Annual Alumni Awards Dinner
Wednesday, November 2
6pm
Seaport Hotel, Boston
Applying Assisted Reproductive
Technology to Family Law
Thursdays: November 3 and 17
Alumni Volunteer Leadership Day
Saturday, September 17
10am-3pm
Sargent Hall, Boston
When Does Life End?: Exploring the Legal,
Medical & Ethical Issues Concerning
End-of-Life Decisionmaking
Friday, November 4
Suffolk University 7th Annual 5K
Road Race and Family Walk
Sunday, September 18
9am registration
Charles River, Boston
Ethical Issues in the Use of Technology
Thursday, November 10
4-6pm
Edwards & Angell LLP, New York City, NY
We want to hear from you.
Please send letters to the editor
and class notes to:
Suffolk Law Magazine
Creative Services/UMS
41 Temple Street
Boston, MA 02114
617.573.8098
fax: 617.305.1987
email: lawmag@suffolk.edu
Resolving Uncertainty in Biotechnology
Patent Law: Patentability, Experimental
Use and Safe Harbor
Friday, November 18
DECEMBER
Writing Workshop
Friday, December 2
Bus Trip to New York City
Saturday, December 3
Details TBA
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SUFFOLK LAW
Suffolk University Law School Alumni Magazine
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Spring 2005
S U F F O L K L AW
David J. Sargent
President, Suffolk University
Robert H. Smith
Dean
John C. Deliso
Associate Dean
Bernard V. Keenan
Associate Dean
Marc G. Perlin
Associate Dean
Gail Ellis
Dean of Admissions
Beverly Coles-Roby
Dean of Students
Diane Frankel Schoenfeld
Director of Alumni Relations
Deborah Beaudette
Director of Communications
Lori Friedman
Major Gift Officer
Executive Editor
Midge Wilcke
Editor for Public Affairs
Rosemarie Sansone
FEATURES
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PUTTING A LOCK ON E-LEAKS
By Sara Romer
Electronic technology has revolutionized many aspects of the
practice of law. But the little-known perils of cyberspace may put
you and your clients at risk. Some tech-savvy Suffolk Law faculty
and alumni provide tips about how to better protect your data—
and your practice.
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SUFFOLK LAW CLINICS
By Jennifer Becker
Thousands of students have participated in the Law School’s clinical
programs during the past four decades, many maintaining that it
was the best experience of their law school careers. Three recent
student advocates tell us why.
Managing Editor
Sara Romer
Copy Editor
Nancy Kelleher
Contributing Writers
Jennifer Becker
Karen Crowell
Karen DeCilio
Tony Ferullo
Nancy Kelleher
Mariellen Norris
Maria Palomino
Steven Withrow
Art Direction
Donald Suthard
Design
Ginny Warren
DEPARTMENTS
Production Manager
Sarah Medina
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FROM THE DEAN
Cover Photography
Nick Koudis, Photodisc
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LAW SCHOOL BRIEFS
7
FACULTY SPOTLIGHT
8
FACULTY NEWS
16
RECOGNITION
17
STUDENT PROFILE
20
ALUMNI NEWS AND PROFILES
26
CLASS NOTES
IBC
PROFILE IN GIVING
Photography
John Gillooly
Phil Humnicky
Joe Kenemore
Tracy Powell
Don Taylor
S U F F O L K L AW magazine is
published twice a year by Suffolk
University Law School. It is produced by Creative Services and
distributed free of charge to alumni,
students, friends, parents, faculty
and staff. The views expressed in
this magazine do not necessarily
reflect the opinions of the editors
or the official policies of the Law
School or the University.
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FROM THE DEAN
Nowhere is the Law School’s tradition
of public service and practical approach
to legal education more apparent than
within our nine clinical programs. In
the past four decades, thousands of
students have participated in our clinics,
most believing the experience to have
been a highlight of their legal education
and invaluable to their professional
careers. In our story, three recent
graduates explain how their experiences
have helped to shape the lawyers
they’ve become.
As we approach Suffolk University
Law School’s centennial anniversary in
2006, we need not look far to appreciate
the tremendous growth and change
we’ve experienced, not only as a
University, but also within the everyday
practice of law.
S U F F O L K L AW
A photograph from the University’s
archive, reprinted on our back cover,
shows Massachusetts Governor Calvin
Coolidge presiding over the laying of
the cornerstone of Suffolk Law School
on Derne Street in 1920. Today Sargent
Hall faces the newest addition to the
Suffolk campus. The University is now
the master tenant at 73 Tremont Street—
the gracious 13-story neoclassical building
at the corner of Beacon Street that was
built in 1895.
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Within most law firms and businesses
today, even the most ardent resisters of
the computer age have succumbed to
the lure of email and other trappings
of our technological revolution. In our
cover story, “e-Leaks: Data with a
Dangerous Byte,” Editor Sara Romer
explores how the practice of law has
been transformed as the paper trails of
the past have become unending mazes
of megabytes. With the click of a
mouse, attorneys transmit information
with ease—but are they disclosing more
than they intend? As some tech-savvy
Suffolk Law professors and alumni
reveal, the threats posed by electronic
communications and metadata can
seriously compromise attorney-client
confidentiality, a client’s case, and a firm’s
practice—our experts offer practical
advice to help protect them all.
We also highlight Janis Schiff, JD ’83,
a real estate partner in the Washington,
DC, office of Holland & Knight LLP, who
launched the Rising Stars mentoring and
leadership program to promote women
into leadership positions within the legal
community; and David Chesnoff, JD ’79,
a criminal defense attorney with
Goodman & Chesnoff in Los Angeles,
whose high-profile courtroom success
stories include clients Shaquille O’Neal,
Andre Agassi, US District Court Judge
Harry Claiborne, and Britney Spears.
In this issue, we mark the milestone
reached by one of our most esteemed
administrators, recognize the spirited
contributions of one of our faculty
members, and note the accomplishments
and generosity of several distinguished
lawyers among our alumni. At the same
time, we announce three exciting new
Suffolk appointments.
I am delighted to introduce three new
members of the Suffolk community.
Patricia Maguire Meservey joined the
University as provost and academic vice
president in November. David James,
an attorney from San Diego, California,
with significant legal recruiting and hiring
experience, became the Law School’s
director of career development in April.
Lori Friedman, JD ’87, rejoined the
Suffolk Law community in November
as our major gift officer.
It is with enormous pride that we
recognize Lorraine Cove and celebrate
her 25 years of extraordinary service as
Law School registrar. A member of the
Suffolk community for the past 35 years,
Lorraine’s dedicated contributions to
the Law School are legendary among
students, alumni, and members of the
faculty and administration alike.
Associate Professor Renée Landers
brings to Suffolk Law not only her
expertise in health care, administrative,
and constitutional law, but a passionate
sense of leadership that permeates each
of her endeavors, within and outside of
the classroom. She currently serves on a
study panel of the National Academy
of Social Insurance, exploring how
Medicare can reduce racial and ethnic
disparities in health care.
Judge Paul J. Fitzpatrick, BA ’56, JD
’57, found his niche in trial work and
has enjoyed a distinguished career in
public service. His generosity and
foresight, and desire to provide financial
assistance to future Suffolk Law students,
led him to establish The Honorable Paul
J. Fitzpatrick Scholarship Fund,
endowed through a charitable gift annuity.
Judge Fitzpatrick’s gift is part of the
University’s Centennial Scholarship
Program, designed to recognize 100
donors making gifts of $50,000 or more
in honor of our centennial anniversary.
Finally, I encourage you to attend our
alumni reunion weekend, June 3-5, for
graduates from class years ending in “0”
or “5”. A series of not-to-be-missed events
are planned, including performances by
the Boston Pops, dinner at the John
Joseph Moakley Federal Courthouse,
and historic tours of Boston. We hope
that you will enjoy visiting with us and
reacquainting yourself with your fellow
alumni. For more information, please
see www.law.suffolk.edu/offices/
alumni/reunion.
Best wishes,
Robert H. Smith
Dean and Professor of Law
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New Provost Focuses on
Academic Initiatives
Patricia Maguire Meservey joined the
“Dr. Meservey joins the University during
University as provost and academic vice
a period of tremendous growth, with new
president on November 1, 2004.
programs constantly in development and
Academic initiatives are the priority of
the Provost’s Office, and Meservey will
work closely with the deans to expand
and refine the University’s comprehensive
academic programs.
multiple campuses here and abroad,”
said President David J. Sargent. “She
brings a strong track record of success in
establishing new positions of responsibility
in the academic arena, and we look
forward to her involvement as we prepare
“Suffolk University is a premier urban
for Suffolk’s second century.”
institution with a focus on excellence
and a commitment to diversity, access,
community service, and leadership in
a global society. I am very pleased to
be part of this community,” she said.
Meservey holds a PhD in higher education
administration from Boston College; a
certificate from the Institute for
Educational Management, Graduate
School of Education at Harvard
University; an MS in parent-child health
nursing from Boston University; a BS in
nursing from Boston University; and a
diploma in nursing from Faulkner
Hospital in Jamaica Plain. She is a fellow
of the American Academy of Nursing.
Meservey has had a distinguished career
in higher education, most recently as
vice provost for faculty and budget at
Northeastern University. While at
Northeastern, Meservey also served as
special assistant to the president; interim
vice provost for enrollment management;
director of the Center for Community
Health Education, Research and Service;
and director of the Graduate Medical and
Nursing Education Partnership Program.
She also held administrative and faculty
positions at Boston University’s School
of Nursing and, as a registered nurse,
has served on the staffs of several
Boston hospitals.
Career Development Director Named
David James, an
became the hiring attorney in 1991,
Lawyer magazine and a member of the
attorney from San
recruiting law students, making
American Society of Writers on Legal
Diego, California,
presentations at law school campuses
Subjects, he has authored more than 50
has been named
throughout the country concerning legal
articles, primarily on career-related topics.
the Law School’s
career options, and mentoring new
director of career
attorneys in the office.
development.
James received his undergraduate
degree cum laude from the University of
An active member of the National
California, Los Angeles, and was a graduate
James served with the City Attorney’s
Association for Law Placement (NALP),
student in psychology and counseling at
Office of San Diego for more than 20
James has served on its board of directors.
the University of Minnesota. He earned
years, most recently as senior deputy city
He currently serves as a member of NALP’s
his JD degree from the University of the
attorney. In 1985 he joined the hiring
Research Advisory Council and as the
Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, in
committee for the City Attorney’s Office
group’s liaison to the ABA Government
Sacramento, California.
and has since interviewed more than
and Public Sector Lawyers Division. A
2,500 lawyers and law students. He
contributing editor of the ABA’s Student
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Donahue Lecture Series
Showcases National Scholars
The annual Donahue lecture series began
in October with the Honorable Rosemary
Barkett of the US Court of Appeals for the
11th Circuit speaking on “Tyranny of
Labels.” Barkett was the first woman
justice on the Florida Supreme Court and
is the recipient of numerous prestigious
Hon. Rosemary Barkett
Jack M. Balkin
Charles R. Lawrence III
honors, including the Latin Business and
Professional Women Lifetime Achievement
Award and The Margaret Brent Women
Lawyers of Achievement Award presented
by the ABA Commission on Women in
the Profession.
In March, Jack M. Balkin delivered
“Disturbing the Universe: How Social
Movements Change the Constitution.”
Balkin, a prominent legal theorist and
constitutional scholar, is Yale Law School’s
Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and
the First Amendment as well as the director
Balkin’s work spans many disciplines,
The Donahue lecture series is named in
from philosophy to politics, and from
honor of the Honorable Frank J. Donahue,
theories of cultural evolution to legal and
JD ’21, the longest serving associate
musical interpretation.
justice of the Massachusetts Superior
The final lecture, “Race, Democracy and
Education,” was presented by Georgetown
University Law Center Professor Charles R.
Lawrence III in April. Lawrence is among
the leading voices in critical race theory
Court. As chairman of the Law School
Committee of the Board of Trustees, Judge
Donahue served an active role in the
expansion of the faculty, library, and
other Law School facilities.
and has written numerous articles on race
Each lecture serves as a basis for a
relations, anti-discrimination law, and
lead article to be published in the
equal protection.
Suffolk University Law Review, a
of the Information Society Project.
sponsor of the series.
S U F F O L K L AW
The Future of Sentencing: Policy and Practice
4
National Moot Court Competition Held at Sargent Hall
Held on September 23, 2004, the program was co-sponsored by the
Center for Advanced Legal Studies, Macaronis Institute for Trial and Appellate
Advocacy, Moakley Archive and Institute, Suffolk Chapter of the American
Constitutional Society, and Flaschner Judicial Institute. Pictured are several of
the distinguished jurists, educators, and policy experts who participated on
the panel. Top Row: (L to R) Hon. Peter W. Agnes, Jr., Mass. Superior Court;
Hon. Charles M. Grabau, Mass. Superior Court; Hon. Robert Mulligan,
Chief Justice for Administration and Management. Bottom Row: (L to R) Marc
Mauer, assistant director, Sentencing Project, Washington, DC; Prof. Stephen
Saltzburg, chair, ABA Justice Kennedy Commission and Howrey Professor of
Trial Advocacy, Litigation and Professional Responsibility, George Washington
University Law School; Honorable Nancy Gertner, US District Court for the
District of Massachusetts; Hon. John J. Irwin, director, Macaronis Institute.
The Region 1 Round of the National Moot Court Competition was held at
Suffolk University Law School on November 19 and 20, 2004. Suffolk’s
team reached the semi-finals, competing against the team from Boston
College Law School. Pictured are members of the Suffolk Law team and
several of the judges from the final argument: (L to R) Kristin Ferris, JD ‘05;
Lauren Koblitz, JD ‘05; Hon. Edward Harrington, US District Court; Dean
Robert H. Smith; Hon. Thomas Horgan, Boston Municipal Court; Suzanne
Breselor, JD ‘05; and coaches Julie Baker, Suffolk Legal Practice Skills
instructor; and Stuart Hurowitz, Esq. The Hon. Mark Kantrowitz of the
Massachusetts Appeals Court presided but was unavailable for the photo.
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Centennial Scholarship Program Builds on Strong Start
Established to recognize Suffolk’s Centennial in 2006, the Centennial Scholarship
Program has grown to include more than $2.9 million in endowment support through the
generosity of 31 donors. The program is well on its way toward reaching its goal of
recognizing 100 Centennial Scholarship benefactors.
Centennial scholarships serve as tangible evidence of Suffolk’s commitment to recruit
and retain an exceptionally talented student body. The following donors made new or
additional scholarship commitments of $50,000 or more as of March, embracing the
mission of the Centennial Scholarship Program.
For more information about how you can help transform the student experience
at Suffolk University Law School, contact Lori Friedman in the Development Office
at 617.305.3233.
Centennial Scholarship Donors
The William F. Connell
Charitable Trust
NEWIRE (New England Women
in Real Estate)
Robert F. Muse, JD ’50*
Margaret E. Ford Trust*
Daniel N. Ford, BA ’77
Brian G. Doherty, JD ’77*
David J. Sargent, JD ’54,
LLD ’78 (Hon.)*
Alice Moore Trust*
Robert W. Casby, JD ’82*
Gerard F. Doherty, JD ’60, and
Marilyn Doherty*
James G. Sokolove, JD ’69*
John C. Scully, DCS ’86 (Hon.),
and Barbara A. Scully
Professor and Mrs. Clifford E.
Elias, LLD ’99 (Hon.)*
Hortense K. Seybolt
Donald J. Scott, JD ’41*
Richard M. Rosenberg,
BSJ ’52, DCS ’91 (Hon.), and
Barbara Rosenberg
The Estate of Arnold W. Olsson,
JD ’43, and Edith Olsson*
Michael S. Smith, BSBA ’61
and Larry E. Smith, BSBA ’65
Thomas J. Ryan, JD ’74, and
Margaret Ryan*
John J. O’Connor, BSBA ’73
The Honorable Salvatore J.
Basile, JD ‘39, LLM ‘42, and
Jennie B. Basile*
John N. Wilson, Jr.*
James W. O’Brien Foundation*
Campus Stores of
Massachusetts, Inc.
Kathryn and Thomas Battillo*
Suffolk University Law School
Class of 1969*
Richard A. Voke, BA ’70, JD ’74
Michael J. McCormack, JD ’72*
Foley Hoag LLP*
The Honorable Paul J. Fitzpatrick,
BA ’56, JD ’57*
Donors are listed in order of
contribution
* Scholarship benefits Suffolk Law School
Pamela Scangas, BA ’72, and
Patricia Scangas
Paralegal Studies Program Celebrates 20 Years
Certificate Program, later renamed the
Paralegal Studies Program. In 1992,
bachelor’s and associate’s degrees were
Suffolk Law is Regional Champion
for Fourth Straight Year
Two Suffolk teams placed in the New England
regional finals of the National Trial Competition
held at the Law School on February 10-13.
Christopher DeCoste, JD '05, and Susannah
Reilly, JD '05, defeated Maine, Vermont, and
Western New England. Jason Drori, JD '05, and
Cynthia Erickson, JD '05, defeated Boston
College in the finals, and represented the
region in the National Phase of the competition in
San Antonio, Texas. This is the fourth consecutive
year that Suffolk will be going to the nationals as
regional champion. Erickson also won the “Best
Advocate” award. (L to R) Professor Tim Wilton
(coach); Cynthia Erickson, JD ‘05; Bobby
Hazelton, JD ‘02 (coach); Chris Perillo;
and Jason Drori, JD ‘05.
added, and, in 1993, ABA approval was
first obtained. As of May 2004, 357
students had completed the program.
As part of the celebration, Boston attorney
Rob Toomey taught the ALS program “Law
Firm Survival Skills: How an Understanding
(L to R) Ellen Burke, Daniel Keefe and Paralegal
Studies Program Director and Associate Professor
Lynne Dahlborg during the first presentation of the
alumni service award, posthumously, to Mary
Keefe, BS ‘03.
In October, Suffolk University’s Paralegal
Studies Program celebrated its 20th
anniversary with an Advanced Legal
Studies (ALS) program and reception.
of Personality Types Contributes to
Success.” A panel discussion featured
area paralegals and program alumni.
Paralegal Studies Program Director and
Associate Professor Lynne Dahlborg
presented the first alumni service award,
posthumously, to Mary Keefe, BS ’03, for
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The University’s training of paralegals
award was accepted by her husband,
began in 1985 with the Lawyer’s Assistant
Daniel Keefe, and her mother, Ellen Burke.
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Distinguished Visiting Professor Focuses on International Law
John E. Noyes, a professor of law at California Western School of Law in San Diego,
California since 1982, joined Suffolk University Law School as the distinguished
visiting law professor for the spring semester. An expert in international law, Noyes
has written extensively about the law of the sea and other international topics. His
current interests include international dispute settlement and the relationship between
religion and international law.
Noyes also has taught as a visiting professor at Victoria University of Wellington in
New Zealand, Roger Williams University School of Law, Wake Forest University School
of Law, and the University of Connecticut School of Law. He is an active participant in
the work of several international organizations, and is currently the US member of the
International Law Association’s Committee on the Outer Limits of the Continental
Shelf and a vice president of the American Branch of the International Law
Association. While at Suffolk University Law School, Noyes taught International
Law and International Law of the Sea.
John E. Noyes
Suffolk Law
Alumna Named
Major Gift Officer
Lori Friedman, JD
’87, rejoined the Law
School community
in November as
McLaughlin Fellow Marina Moriarty, JD ‘06 and
Drinan Fellow Lisa Oliver, JD ‘06.
Fenton Award recipients (L to R) Sarah Temple
Blodgett, JD ‘05; Jessica L. Tripp, JD ‘05; and
Catherine M. Hobbs, JD ‘05.
Drinan, McLaughlin, and Fenton Awards Named
The Thomas J. Drinan Memorial and Paul R. McLaughlin Memorial fellowships are
awarded each year to second-year day or third-year evening students for summer
internships in criminal law. Eligible summer placements include federal and state
prosecutors’ offices, public defender agencies, and the Massachusetts Attorney
General’s Office.
the new major gift
officer. Friedman is filling the post
previously held by Shelagh Foley O’Brien,
who was promoted to the position of
campaign director.
Friedman has been involved in fundraising
for the past 10 years. She previously
worked at the School of the Museum of
Fine Arts and, most recently, at Facing
History and Ourselves, where she raised
Marina Moriarty, JD ‘06, was awarded the McLaughlin Fellowship, and Lisa Oliver, JD
more than $7 million as the organization’s
’06, received the Drinan Fellowship. Moriarty will intern at the Suffolk County District
associate director for corporate and
Attorney’s Office, Dorchester Division, and Oliver will work in the Criminal Division of
foundation relations. She played a key
the US Attorney’s Office in Boston.
leadership role in her work with donors
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For more information about these fellowships and the Suffolk Law graduates for whom
they are named, see www.law.suffolk.edu/offices/career/fellowships/fellowships.cfm.
and with members of several prominent
Boston law firms in securing donor support.
The John E. Fenton, Jr., Public Service Awards are given annually to three Suffolk Law
School students who exemplify Judge Fenton’s commitment to public service and are
pursuing post-graduate employment with qualifying government and public interest
employers. Sarah Temple Blodgett, JD ’05, Catherine M. Hobbs, JD ’05, and Jessica L.
Tripp, JD ’05, were recently named this year’s Fenton award recipients. The Fenton
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throughout the Northeast and Florida
awards are Suffolk Law School’s highest paid public service grants.
A Suffolk Law honors graduate, Friedman
was president of the Student Bar
Association. She clerked for the justices of
the Massachusetts Superior Court and was
a litigator in private practice for six years.
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Landers’ Time
She says she’s often found herself at the right place
at the right time. But those who have worked with
her know that it’s much more than that: Renée
Landers is a spirited leader whose confidence
and enthusiasm define each of her pursuits.
associate professor, Suffolk University Law School.
Attorney, Ropes & Gray. Assistant attorney general with the US
Department of Justice. Deputy general counsel with the US
Department of Health and Human Services during the Clinton
administration. First woman of color and first law professor
to become president of the Boston Bar Association. With
each new challenge, Renée Landers leads confidently and
passionately—with spirit.
Reflecting on her various roles, Landers says she feels fortunate
to have had extraordinary opportunities to serve the public as
well as her clients in private practice. She says she often found
herself at the right place at the right time. “In life, timing is
everything,” she says with a warm smile.
Today, Landers delights in the energy of the classroom, teaching,
guiding, and encouraging her students. An expert in health care,
administrative, and constitutional law, Landers says she’s
extremely happy to be teaching at Suffolk. “We have strong
students who bring highly relevant and diverse backgrounds
and experience to their studies, and a distinguished faculty
that has high expectations for the quality of the academic
experience,” said Landers, who was born in Springfield,
Illinois, and graduated from Harvard College in 1977 and
Boston College Law School in 1985. “It feels great to be part
of an incredibly lively intellectual community.”
In 2002 Landers co-authored “Research in the Information
Age,” an article that addresses regulations that attempt to
balance privacy interests with the advancement of research in
the health care field. She also serves on a study panel of the
National Academy of Social Insurance, exploring how Medicare
can reduce racial and ethnic disparities in health care—relating
directly to issues covered in her Health Law and Constitutional
Law courses.
Landers is past president of Harvard University’s Board of
Overseers and currently serves on the board of directors of
WGBH. She has been actively involved in the Big Sister
Association of Greater Boston for more than a decade, having
served as president for three years. She’s now serving on the
organization’s board of directors, together with her husband,
Thomas L. Barrette, Jr., executive vice president and general
counsel for a wireless technology company.
Landers and Barrette live in Watertown with their 9-year-old
son, Nelson. During Little League games, Dad can be seen
coaching on the field and Mom cheering from the stands.
At home, mother and son enjoy reading Harry Potter books
together because “we’re too scared to read them alone,”
she laughs.
Dean Robert H. Smith, who was a colleague when Landers
was an associate professor at Boston College Law School from
1988 to 1993, is delighted to be working with her again.
“Renée is a multi-talented individual,” says Smith. “What
impresses me the most is Renée’s range of skills, the range of
roles in which she excels, and the range of people she has
worked with over the years who rave about her professionally
and personally. We’re very lucky to have her here.” •
by Tony Ferullo
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Andrew Beckerman-Rodau
presented “Law School Teaching” at
the Conference on Legal Education
sponsored by Gonzaga University
School of Law in Spokane,
Washington, in July. In October a
second presentation was made as part
of the ABA Legal Education Section
Program at Rutgers University Law
School, in New Jersey, titled
“Pedagogy to Practice: Maximizing
Legal Education with Technology.”
Carter Bishop co-authored with
Daniel Kleinberger and Thomas Geu,
“Charging Orders and the New
Uniform Limited Partnership Act:
Dispelling Rumors of Disaster” which
was published in 18 Probate and
Property 30 (2004). A second article,
“Diversity Jurisdiction,” also coauthored with Daniel Kleinberger,
was published in 14 Business Law
Today 31 (2004).
Sara Dillon’s article, “The New
American Hegemony?, Looking for
the Progressive Empire: Where is the
European Union’s Foreign Policy?”
examines the persistent problem of
the European Union in constructing a
unified political and legal role in the
context of foreign policy. It was
published in 19 Connecticut Journal
of International Law 275 (2004).
Valerie C. Epps was a panelist on
“The Use of Force and the Geneva
Conventions,” at New England School
of Law, and chaired a panel on
“The Implementation of the Vienna
Convention on Consular Relations
after Avena” at the Annual
Conference of the International Law
Association (American Branch) in
New York in October. Her article,
“Resolution of Claims to SelfDetermination: The Expansion
and Creation of Dispute Settlement
Karen Blum received the Suffolk University
Law School Charles P. Kindregan, Jr. Award for
Extraordinary Contributions to Advanced Legal Studies
in September 2004.
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Eric Blumenson’s book, Reporter’s
Notes to the pre-trial Rules of the
Massachusetts Rules of Criminal
Procedure (2004), was published
by West Publishing Group. He also
presented “Revised Rules of Criminal
Procedure,” to Massachusetts
Continuing Legal Education in July
and later to the Suffolk Lawyers for
Justice in September.
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Victoria Dodd has been appointed
to the executive committee of the
Association of American Law Schools
(AALS) Section on Education Law.
Mechanisms,” was published in 10
ILSA Journal of International &
Comparative Law 377 (2004).
Steven Ferrey authored several
articles, among them: “Sustainable
Energy, Environmental Policy, and
States’ Rights: Discerning the Energy
Future through the Eye of the
Dormant Commerce Clause” in 12
New York University Environmental
Law Journal 507 (2004) and “Inverting
Choice of Law in the Wired Universe:
Thermodynamics, Mass, and Energy,”
which was published in 45 William
and Mary Law Review (2004).
Keith Fisher presented “The Higher
Calling: Regulation of Lawyers PostEnron,” at the Sloan Interdisciplinary
Workshop Series at Georgetown
University Law Center in May 2004.
The focus of the discussion was the
paper’s application of the public
choice theory to the efficacy of
regulating the legal profession by
state courts and state bar associations
and the author’s proposal for partially
federalizing that regulation. He also
was awarded the 2005 National
Writing Competition Peterson Prize
for his article, “Towards a Basal Tenth
Amendment: A Riposte to National
Bank Preemption of State Consumer
Protection Laws.”
Dwight Golann has been named
co-chair of the Boston Bar
Association’s (BBA) Alternative
Dispute Resolution Committee and
led a seminar on “Insulting First
Offers: Whether to Make Them, How
to Respond” at the BBA. He traveled
to Beijing, China, to lead a seminar
on commercial mediation techniques
sponsored by the Chinese Council for
the Promotion of International Trade
and the CPR Institute for Dispute
Resolution. It inaugurated the USChinese Mediation Center, an
organization created to promote
mediation disputes between American
and Chinese businesses. In addition,
Golann was a guest lecturer on
“Cognitive and Emotional Barriers
to Settlement” in October at Boston
University Law School. His article,
“How to Borrow a Mediator’s
Powers,” was published in 30
Litigation 41 (spring 2004).
Lorie Graham authored “Resolving
Indigenous Claims to SelfDetermination,” published in
10 ILSA Journal of International
& Comparative Law 383 (2004).
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Lisa Healy, an instructor in the Legal
Practice Skills Program co-authored
with Gerald B. Healy, “Honesty is the
ONLY Policy: Physician Expert
Witnesses in the 21st Century,”
published in the November issue
of Journal of the American College
of Surgeons.
Charles P. Kindregan, Jr., authored
“Same-sex Marriage: The Cultural
Wars and the Lessons of Legal
History,” published in 38 Family
Law Quarterly 427 (2004).
Renée M. Landers was appointed the
2004-2005 chair of the membership
Committee of the American Bar
Association Section on Administrative
Law and Regulatory Practice. In May
2004, she was appointed a member
of the Massachusetts Commission on
Judicial Conduct by Chief Justice for
Administration and Management
Robert Mulligan. In addition she
served on a panel, “Careers in the
Public and Nonprofit Sectors,” at the
17th Annual Women’s Leadership
Conference, Harvard University in
September, and was a guest speaker
at a class on compliance issues for
health care organizations at the Health
Care Administration Program held at
Simmons College in October.
Herbert N. Ramy, director of the
Academic Support Program, was
elected to the board of directors at the
Humanizing Legal Education Program.
The organization is an initiative
shared by legal educators seeking to
maximize the overall health, wellbeing, and career satisfaction of law
students and lawyers.
Michael L. Rustad has been
appointed to the advisory board of
the Center for Justice and Democracy.
The board is dedicated to raising
public awareness of the value of our
civil justice system and the campaign
behind the tort reform movement.
He was also named to the board of
advisers, Intellectual Property Program
at the University of Florida. He
continues to co-author many articles
with Professor Thomas H. Koenig at
Northeastern University, including
“Punitive Damages in Medical
Malpractice: A New Audit” in a leading
publication for nurses about legal
issues, 4 LNC Resources: Where
Litigation & Health Care Come
Together 1 and “Cybertorts and
Legal Lag: An Empirical Analysis”
in 13 Southern California (CA)
Interdisciplinary Law Journal 77
(2004). His article “Punitive Damages
in Cyberspace: Where in the World
is the Consumer,” was published in
7 Chapman Law Review 39 (2004).
Miguel Schor presented a paper
in May 2004 titled “The Political
Foundations of the Rule of Law,” Law
and Society Meeting in Chicago, Illinois.
Robert H. Smith has been appointed
chair of the Curriculum Committee of
the ABA Section on Legal Education
and Admission to the Bar. In January,
the committee published the results
of a survey of law school curriculum
developments since 1992.
David C. Yamada has been named
to the advisory committee of the first
annual “Voices of Inclusion” Health
Care Disparities Summit, co-sponsored
by the National Conference for
Community and Justice and the
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
Foundation, John F. Kennedy Library
and Museum, Boston. In October
2004, he was the plenary speaker for
“Workplace Bullying and Healthcare
Workers,” at the Annual Convention
of the Massachusetts Nurses
Association in Boston and also
presented, “The Metropolitan Law
School and the Urban Condition”
at the annual conference of the
Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan
Universities, sponsored by Pace
University in New York.
Andrew Perlman made a presentation on the ABA Model Rules on bar admissions
and their unconstitutional limitations on the interstate practice of law at the
Massachusetts Bar Association’s Sustaining Member Reception in Boston in
October. His essay, “Ethics Issues Associated with Electronic Metadata,” explored
the various legal ethics issues that arise as a result of the presence of unseen data
embedded in electronic files, such as word-processing documents. The essay was
presented at the Center for Advanced Legal Studies conference Ethical Risks from
the Use of Technology. (For more on this topic, see story on pages 10-15.)
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Data with a
Dangerous Byte
by Sara Romer
March 2004: The SCO Group files suit against
DaimlerChrysler for violating the terms of a software
licensing agreement. Through “hidden” text
revealed within the court documents, it soon
becomes widely known that, just days before,
SCO had planned to sue Bank of America.
March 2005: Applicants to six of the nation’s
top business schools manage an unauthorized
e-peek at the schools’ preliminary admissions
decisions—courtesy of instructions in a
BusinessWeek online forum.
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February 2005: The names of 6,000 HIV/AIDS
patients are inadvertently sent in a mass email
to Florida health department workers.
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Whether accidental or intentional, each of these
examples makes clear that the technological
revolution that has transformed our paper trails to
mazes of megabytes has some less-than-desirable
The Good Ol’ Days
consequences. For attorneys, who must represent
their clients and conduct their practices consistent
with ethical rules and standards, some technological
twists are throwing a monkeywrench into the
everyday practice of law.
Until the late 1980s, most lawyers employed legal
secretaries who were well trained at taking and
transcribing dictation and using the correction keys
on IBM Selectric typewriters. Documents were stored
under lock and key in steel file cabinets, and photocopies
looked and felt like copies. And unless a document
was hand delivered by messenger or sent via facsimile,
nothing was faster than the US Postal Service. To say
that times have changed is an understatement.
“Even partners of mine who predicted that their
computers would be nothing more than oversized
paperweights are now hooked on email,” says Suffolk
Law adjunct faculty member Jerry Cohen, a partner
with Perkins Smith & Cohen, and chair of the firm’s
Science & Technology Group. “It’s an amazing
thing—it starts with hunting and pecking, and ends
with ten fingers on the keyboard and an abundance
of electronic correspondence.”
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Suffolk Law Professor Andrew Beckerman-Rodau,
who co-directs the Intellectual Property Law
Concentration with Professor Michael Rustad, says
that even though people tend to know that email is
not terribly secure, its ease and efficiency often make
it the communication tool of choice. “People tend to
be very casual in email, but my rule of thumb is this:
If you wouldn’t be comfortable seeing the contents of
your email message on the front page of The Boston
Globe, you probably shouldn’t be sending it.”
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Rustad, who co-authored the E-Business Legal
Handbook 2003 (Aspen Law & Business) with
adjunct faculty member Cyrus Daftary, points to
some highly publicized examples of the damaging
role of email in the litigation context. “Email smoking
guns were used to prosecute those individuals and
institutions involved in the collapse of Enron and
provided key evidence in the Arthur Andersen
obstruction-of-justice case as well.”
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“People tend to be
very casual in email,
but my rule of
Cautionary Practices
A Brave New World
The proliferation of email in the typical attorney’s day
requires lawyers to be ready to respond to both clients
and opposing counsel more rapidly and efficiently
than ever before. And there’s lots of room for error.
“I remember people sending faxes to the wrong
locations and being unable to recover them,” says
Tom Turano, JD ’88, a partner with the Intellectual
Property Practice Group of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart
Nicholson Graham LLP (K&LNG), who has taught
Patent Prosecution at Suffolk Law. “But now, people
can even more easily enter an incorrect email address
when sending a message or respond by hitting ‘reply
all’ when they didn’t intend to do so.”
“Once you send an email, you’ve created a digital file
that can’t easily be destroyed,” says Beckerman-Rodau.
“The message you send gets backed up on the server
in your office, and also on the server within the office
to which it is sent. Realistically, you could never find
all of the copies—once it’s out there, you just can’t
get it back.”
“Sometimes you can use the recall tool in Microsoft
Outlook to recall an email message that hasn’t yet
been opened…but usually the recall request occurs
after the message has been read and the damage has
been done,” says Turano.
“At K&LNG, our email system is set up so that even
someone who’s very technologically challenged would
have to work hard to cause trouble,” Turano says. “The
system is designed by our information technology (IT)
department to return any email addressed outside of
the firm to the sending attorney, with the automatic
comment, ‘one of the addresses you have entered is
outside of this firm—are you sure you want to send?’
thereby giving the sender a second chance to review
the email message and confirm its transmission.”
Cohen says that within his firm there are welldocumented policies concerning email and that all
staff members are trained by their IT department and
cautioned as to the potential dangers. “Opinion
letters issued by the firm require approval by two
partners, and certain email transmissions have similar
requirements,” he says.
Mark Greco, director of information technology at
Perkins Smith & Cohen, says he’s seen tremendous
growth in the information technology sector and the
entire Internet and electronic security industry within
the last five years. Attributing this to the increase in
malicious attacks and hackers, as well as a greater
awareness of terrorist threats after 9/11, Greco says that
more and more security technology is now trickling
down to the corporate level. At Perkins Smith &
Cohen, that means using Open Text’s First Class, an
email program with a strong encryption device that is
proprietary and allows clients to have secure extranet
access to the information they need. “The firm also
operates on a Macintosh platform rather than a
Windows platform because we believe it to be more
secure,” he says.
Among law firms, there are a wide range of practices
regarding email and email security, often dependent
upon the size of the firm and the nature of its practice.
But nearly all lawyers include a disclaimer within their
email transmissions indicating that if the email was
sent to the wrong party or is in obvious error, that the
receiving party should notify the sender and destroy
the information.
thumb is this: If you
wouldn’t be comfortable seeing the
contents of your
email message on
the front page of
The Boston Globe,
you probably
shouldn’t be
sending it. ”
Professor Andrew BeckermanRodau, co-director of Suffolk
Law School’s Intellectual
Property Law Concentration
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What many lawyers do not realize is that the electronic
document contains something called metadata that
could reveal your client’s initial instructions…and
make otherwise confidential information available
to opponents.”
“What many lawyers
do not realize is
that the electronic
document contains
something called
metadata that could
reveal your client’s
initial instructions…
and make otherwise
confidential
information available
to opponents. ”
Associate Professor Andrew
Perlman, in “Ethics Issues
Associated with Electronic
Metadata”
“Not all Word
Both the American Bar Association and Massachusetts
Bar Association have issued formal ethics opinions
indicating that a lawyer may transmit client information
through unencrypted email over the Internet without
violating the Model Rules of Professional Conduct
because the transmission affords a reasonable expectation
of privacy. But jurisdictions are currently split as to the
legal rights and duties of those who receive erroneously
sent email messages. And according to Suffolk Law
Associate Professor Andrew Perlman, the ABA’s new
model rule on the issue provides little guidance, stating
that the recipient of an inadvertently disclosed document only has to notify the sender about the mistake.
This approach contrasts with an earlier ABA opinion
that requires the recipient not only to notify the
sender of the mistake, but also to follow the sender’s
instructions about handling the document. The
position adopted by Massachusetts suggests that
lawyers have an ethical obligation to take advantage
of inadvertently disclosed documents and provides an
opportunity for the court to determine the appropriate
use of the material received consistent with the ethical
rules, once the use is challenged.
2003 metadata is
accessed quite this
easily...but no
matter how your
unintentional
information might
be seen on the
screen of a lawyer,
a competitor, or your
brother-in-law, you
probably don’t want
it there.”
Laurie Rowell, in her
InformIT.com article,
“Avoiding Snares and
Gotchas in Word 2003”
MetaMischief
Even if the document forwarded via email is in final
form and directed to the appropriate party, certain
metadata—data about data that is stored within the
document—could prove damaging for attorneys and
their clients. Consider this example described by
Perlman, in his article, “Ethics Issues Associated with
Electronic Metadata”:
“Imagine negotiating a contract with opposing
counsel through the exchange of an electronic
document that you created using WordPerfect.
During the negotiations, your client instructs you
to make an important concession in one of the
contract’s provisions. You make the change in the
electronic version of the document, but before
emailing the proposed change to opposing counsel,
your client decides not to offer the concession. You
edit the document back to the original state and
send it to the other party’s attorney.
Metadata stored in Word or WordPerfect document
files can include information about who wrote the
document, when it was revised, by whom and how,
the name of the computer, network server or hard disk
where the document was saved, file and case numbers,
and the amount of time spent editing the document.
“In the SCO [v. DaimlerChrysler] case, some of the
‘hidden’ information was disastrously easy to find,”
writes Laurie Rowell in “Avoiding Snares and Gotchas
in Word 2003,” an article published in January by
InformIT.com. Rowell is a technical writer who has
worked with a multitude of software and technology
giants, including Microsoft and IBM. “Someone reading
the Word document online just selected either Original
Showing Markup or Final Showing Markup from the
toolbar, and information that had been deleted showed
up right in the text for anyone’s perusal. Not all Word
2003 metadata is accessed quite this easily…but no
matter how your unintentional information might be
seen on the screen of a lawyer, a competitor, or your
brother-in-law, you probably don’t want it there.”
Whether fact or fiction, some say that lawyers first
became aware of the metadata morass several years ago
when a client came across hidden text that revealed
billing discrepancies. Within the legal community,
awareness of metadata is growing, but is still often
limited to those practicing within larger firms and
corporate law departments. A Suffolk Law Advanced
Legal Studies program titled “Ethical Jeopardy” focused
on this and related topics last June. Co-sponsored with
the Law School’s Intellectual Property Concentration
and the Boston Patent Law Association, the program
left many attendees with their jaws dropped. “People
were shocked to learn about the vast amounts of
information that could come back to haunt them,”
says Beckerman-Rodau, who served on the
program faculty.
“Lawyers at my firm were previously unaware of the
threats posed by metadata,” says John Cloherty III,
JD ’93, who attended the seminar. “And it’s my
experience that most small firms are not aware of the
problem.” Cloherty practices insurance defense and
municipal law with the 14-member firm of Pierce,
Davis & Perritano, LLP, in Boston. “We’re now
cautioning our clients and looking at our documents
a bit differently as a result,” he says.
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“My guess is that in
most large firms,
the IT department
Firm Remedies
There are a variety of ways for law firms to eliminate
metadata, either by altering certain computer settings
or through software programs specifically designed to
delete metadata. According to Perlman, Microsoft has
provided an add-in for Office 2003/XP that enables
users to remove metadata from Word, Excel, and
PowerPoint documents. Rowell writes that the
program is an effective scrubber, but cautions that
the add-in does not work with all versions of Word,
or with digitally signed files or those with informationrights management protection—in those instances,
third-party applications such as Workshare Protect
or iScrub may be used.
At the large firm where Turano previously practiced,
attorneys were trained to use the Metadata Assistant
scrubber to eliminate metadata in their documents
before transmitting them. At K&LNG, the IT
department has configured its system to hold electronic
documents until the sending attorney responds to a
prompt asking whether or not the document should
be scrubbed. “Our IT department is outstanding—
recognized by CIO Magazine (Chief Information
Officer Magazine) as a CIO100 Award winner for the
last three years. My guess is that in most large firms,
the IT department trains firm staff to run the scrubbing
applications themselves and that in smaller firms these
applications are unlikely to exist at all.”
Some firms, including Perkins Smith & Cohen, train
users to cut and paste documents into new documents,
rather than having the original documents scrubbed.
More often than not, they also convert document files
to Adobe Acrobat’s Portable Document Format (PDF)
files as a way of avoiding metadata misuse and
unauthorized tampering. “Though not foolproof, the
PDF makes everyone more comfortable,” says Greco,
“and many of the larger firms and smaller tech-savvy
firms have done the same.” Perlman cautions that
though the PDF conversion process eliminates the
metadata contained in the original Word or WordPerfect
document files, the newly created PDF file contains
metadata of its own, independent of the original
document. “As the US Department of Justice recently
learned when confidential information it had ‘removed’
within a report issued as a PDF was later revealed,
revisions made to the PDF itself result in another
layer of metadata that attorneys need to address,” says
Perlman. Adds Rustad, “New software is available that
makes it possible to detect altered documents that
may then become the foundation for a spoliation-ofevidence lawsuit on the civil side and possible jail
time on the criminal side.” Law firms and business
entities need to conduct legal audits to avoid liability
and protect their rights.
Click with Caution
Recent technological advances have transformed
much of how lawyers practice. Though just a few of
the technology-related concerns are highlighted here,
the list is endless. How should electronic information
be securely stored on a long-term basis? How can
confidential electronic information be effectively
destroyed once a matter is closed? How many data
backups are really needed? Must a sledgehammer be
used to delete data from an old hard drive about to be
retired? Are the risks of accessing the Internet through
a Wi-Fi (wireless fidelity network) connection too
great to justify its use? How will the increasing use of
electronic discovery affect the practice of law?
trains firm staff to
run the [metadata]
scrubbing applications themselves
and that in smaller
firms these applications are unlikely to
exist at all.”
Tom Turano, JD ’88
Kirkpatrick & Lockhart
Nicholson Graham LLP
With each new innovative change, the fundamental
challenge for attorneys remains the same: to act
competently and with reasonable care to safeguard
confidential client information. As Suffolk Law faculty
and alumni agree, an awareness of current technology
and its capabilities and an understanding of the
potential risks and consequences involved will enable
attorneys to proceed—informed and cautiously—to
the next mouse click. •
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RECOGNITION
A Suffolk Law Cornerstone
Celebrates 25 years as registrar
lorraine d. cove has never been comfortable having the
spotlight shine on her.
Despite her preference to shy away from attention, Cove was
applauded recently as she celebrated her 25th anniversary as
registrar of Suffolk University Law School. The assistant to the
dean has been one of the most respected and influential
members of the Law School community for the past 35 years—
a milestone achieved by only a few.
“I’ve always considered Suffolk Law my ‘home away from
home,’” says Cove, who is known for her dedicated service,
normally arriving to her office early and leaving late. “In fact,
my husband (Robert Cove, JD ’72) would say I spend more
time at work than I do at home.”
Since she first arrived at Suffolk in 1969, when the registrar’s
office was tucked away on the fourth floor of the Donahue
Building and responsible for handling all students, as well as
applicants, Cove has seen it all. She proudly walks through
Sargent Hall each day and is continually in awe of the total
transformation Suffolk Law has made over the years.
“I can’t believe all that we’ve accomplished to get where we
are today,” says Cove. “With the Centennial approaching [in
2006], these are very exciting times to be at Suffolk Law, and
I’m delighted to be part of it all.”
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Although times have certainly changed during Cove’s
distinguished tenure, her motivation to do what she does—
guiding and inspiring students to reach their academic
goals—has always remained the same. “If you can help to
make someone’s life less complex and see them achieve what
they set out to do, that’s what it’s all about,” she explains.
“Students with obstacles to overcome give me the biggest thrill
and satisfaction. This is probably most evident when I see
them at graduation.”
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Cove’s popularity with Suffolk Law students is legendary.
In fact, she received The Malcolm M. Donahue Award for
Excellence in Administration a total of 14 times. This distinguished
award, honoring the administrator of the year, is voted on by
the entire student body.
“She has won the award so many times, I suggested that it be
named the Lorraine Cove Award,” laughs Suffolk Law Dean
Robert H. Smith. “Lorraine is amazingly dedicated to our
school and our students. She is a hardworking and caring
individual who is extremely knowledgeable and enjoyable to
work with.”
According to Smith, Cove has something of a celebrity status,
particularly among alumni. “When I’m conversing with alumni
who have graduated during the last 25 to 30 years, they always
ask how Lorraine is doing,” says Smith. “They all seem to have
a Lorraine Cove story to tell, usually about how she has helped
them along the way.”
When she’s not working, Cove and her husband, who live in
Arlington, enjoy spending time with their three children and
two grandchildren. She also likes to read, collect antiques,
and travel.
Asked how long she plans to continue as registrar at Suffolk
Law, Cove smiles brightly. “I have no aspirations of going
anywhere else,” she says. “This is the best place for me and
it’s where I want to be. I love my job more now than when
I first started. •
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STUDENT PROFILE
Man on a Mission
Gerard Eric Hill,
JD ’05
He’s made a career of helping communities,
and when it comes to a commitment to service,
Eric is someone who stands apart.
many law students clerk at top firms or for distinguished
judges, and some research comparative law at foreign
universities. But Eric Hill’s practical training occurred in an
unexpected venue—the front lines of Iraq.
A member of the US National Guard, he was activated in
February 2003 as the ground war in Iraq was still being waged
and while he was halfway through law school. Hill put aside
his textbooks and put on his uniform to lead his 93-person
ordnance unit on equipment-recovery missions.
“It was a learning experience to be in a different part of the
world and to get a chance to see how different people live,”
he says. “It makes you appreciate what we have here.” During
his 13 months of active duty, Hill adjusted to eating cold
meals, drinking hot water, and living in a land where the
lowest summer temperature was 105 degrees.
He also learned about military law through his work with the
judge advocate general in southern Iraq. He helped administer
a claims system for Iraqis seeking compensation from the Army
and dealt with discipline problems. “Military law is pretty swift
and the conviction rate in military trials is high,” he says. He
turned his newfound insights into a directed study paper, for
which he earned two Law School credits.
Hill chose Suffolk because he could continue working while
taking evening classes. “It turned out to be a perfect fit,” he
says. He also is grateful that the Law School was very supportive
and understanding of his service in the Middle East. “That
helped me get through the transition from student to soldier
and back again,” he says.
“When it comes to commitment to service, Eric is someone
who stands apart,” says Dean of Students Beverly Coles-Roby.
“So, we were not surprised to learn of his willingness to serve
in Iraq and to be part of that country’s historic struggle with
religious beliefs, ethnicity, and oppression.”
Hill has made a career of helping communities. “For three
years I was Mayor Menino’s neighborhood coordinator for
Mattapan and Dorchester,” he says. “I was expected to be on
top of any hot-button issues and to be able to give the mayor
advice. And I was gratified that I could actually solve some of
the issues myself.” He went on to head employee development
programs for the Boston Police Department.
Far from the battlefields around Baghdad, Hill now defends
the home front as a member of the Police Department’s
Community Mobilization Unit. “We are attempting to combat
terrorism by using existing crime-watch groups and
incorporating them into that fight,” he says.
Now Hill has a new goal in his sights: to practice business law
after receiving his degree in May. Accustomed to accomplishing
his objectives, he’s looking forward to his next mission. •
by Jennifer Becker
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Suffolk Law Clinics
Student Advocates Develop Skills
While Serving the Public
by Jennifer Becker
A lawyer’s life doesn’t quite mirror the movies. “Everyone imagines
lawyers giving fabulous closing arguments like Atticus Finch, but
For the Defense
that rarely happens,” Associate Professor and Director of Clinical
Julie Buszuwski,
Programs Jeffrey Pokorak says. Before they can deliver flashy
statements, young attorneys must master the skills of “figuring
out what the issues are and seriously preparing for any matter,” he
says. And the Law School’s clinics offer crucial on-the-job training.
Up to half of each graduating class takes advantage
of one of Suffolk’s nine clinical opportunities, in
which students represent, under their mentors’
supervision, clients facing such issues as domestic
violence, disability-related discrimination, and
criminal charges. They learn everything from drafting
correspondence to filing motions and interacting
with opposing counsel. And by advocating for
indigent clients, they fulfill Suffolk Law’s mission
to “serve the bar, the bench, and the people who
live here,” Pokorak says.
Clinics are primarily geared for upper-level students,
who are “ready to understand the bridge between
theory and practice,” he says. “Our goal is to create
ethical, reflective, careful, and well-prepared lawyers.”
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“It’s a very intellectual process,” says Associate
Clinical Professor Ilene Seidman. In her Family
Advocacy Clinic, she challenges students “to think
very seriously about what kind of lawyer they
want to be. It requires a tremendous commitment
from them.”
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Pokorak agrees. “The quality of the effort put forth
by our students is amazing,” he says. “And for both
the students and their future employers, the rewards
have been tremendous.” Now that Suffolk’s clinical
professors also teach courses within the traditional
curriculum, Pokorak is confident that even more
students will benefit from the program’s hands-on
principles. As the following three recent graduates
demonstrate, participating in the clinical program
prepares students for leading roles on the legal stage.
JD ’03
A student will often point
to her yearlong clinical
experience as the most
challenging time of her
law school career. Julie
Buszuwski took on two
clinics—and relished both.
“Initially I applied for the
Juvenile Justice Clinic
because second-year
students could participate,”
she says. “What I did not anticipate was how
much I would enjoy criminal defense, particularly
representing indigent people. So when I was in
my third year, I absolutely had to apply for the
Suffolk Defenders.”
“Julie was tenacious in court and a tireless advocate
for her clients,” recalls Ken King, practitioner in
residence at Suffolk’s Juvenile Justice Center. “She
was also quick with a smile and a kind word for a
scared kid who was in court for the first time.”
Client advocacy came naturally to her. “Despite
what the charges were, my clients were good people
who made some bad choices in life,” she says. “It
was easy to relate to them on a human level, even if
our lives were completely different.” Buszuwski says
the two clinics also placed the law in context. “I
loved working within the criminal justice system,”
she says. “I really got to see the big picture and
appreciate what the practice of law would be like.”
Buszuwski continues to be a zealous advocate—
now as a trial attorney with the Salem office of
the Massachusetts Committee for Public
Counsel Services.
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Thousands of students
have participated in
Suffolk Law School’s
clinical programs
From House-keeping
to the Senate
Nick Martinelli,
during the past four
JD ’04
Everyone knows Greater
Boston’s housing prices are
soaring. Nick Martinelli
represented the tenants
struggling to keep up with
them. He enrolled in the
Housing and Consumer
Protection Clinic hoping
for “an instructive, impactful forum” in which he
could help underprivileged clients—he won on
both counts.
“A standout moment for me was when my client,
a woman who had been staying in the East Boston
Holiday Inn with her daughter for over a year, was
finally approved for an apartment at one of the
local housing authorities,” he recalls. “After months
of back and forth, they got their own home.
Everyone in the clinic wanted to be ‘useful,’ and
this was a day I felt like I was serving a purpose.”
He now serves as an attorney for the Massachusetts
Senate Committee on Ways and Means. “It’s been
a great way to learn how Massachusetts operates
and how public policy is made,” Martinelli says.
His career echoes his clinic. “In some ways, the
spirit of the effort is the same. I’ve been fortunate
to deal with many people who are genuinely
concerned about poverty-related issues.”
Martinelli’s mentor, Assistant Clinical Professor
William Berman, knows Martinelli will put his
legal talent and “natural ability to work with people”
to good use. Berman says he enjoys instilling in his
clinic participants their “power as law students to
make a difference in the lives of the individuals
they serve and even to influence broader public
policy. Nick’s position in the Senate gives him the
opportunity to do just that.”
decades. Today’s
students may select
Compassionate
Counsel
Michelle Harper
Lawson, JD ’04
Having counseled women
and children fleeing
domestic violence before
she came to Suffolk,
Lawson was a natural fit
for the Family Advocacy
Clinic. “I thought that in
my new role as a student
attorney, I could utilize
some of the skills I’d already developed,” she says.
Defending the dignity of her victimized clients in
the clinic helped her become a compassionate
counselor at law.
“In the clinic, I learned very quickly that what’s
first and foremost about being an attorney is
serving the client,” Lawson says. “I got so much
out of building relationships with my clients and
really getting to know the people behind the legal
issues. Knowing that they were depending on me, I
was even more motivated to give my best effort to
each task.”
from one or more of
the following clinical
opportunities:
Battered Women’s
Advocacy Program
Civil and Judicial
Internship Program
Disability Advocacy Clinic
Family Advocacy Clinic
Housing and Consumer
Protection Clinic
Juvenile Justice Center
Evening Landlord
Tenant Clinic
Suffolk Defenders
Suffolk Prosecutors
See www.law.suffolk.edu/
academic/clinical/ for more
information.
“She was a superior student,” Associate Clinical
Professor Ilene Seidman says. “Michelle had a
tremendous desire to learn everything she could
learn.” But great lawyers must have more than
book smarts. “She could use her intellect in an
especially powerful way because she’s so empathic.”
The lessons she learned from the clinic continue to
guide Lawson now that she is an associate in the labor
and employment department of Ropes & Gray.
Along with the complexities of the court system,
“I also learned to manage a caseload and prioritize
client needs, skills that are now critical to my
practice,” she says.
“Participating in the clinic was, hands down, the
most positive and beneficial experience of my law
school career,” Lawson says.
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New Opportunities
for
Alumni
Alumni Luncheon Series
A New Look for the Online
Community’s Web Site
The annual luncheon series featured distinguished alumni addressing
topics of concern to both practitioners and policymakers.
On October 13, 2004, Kathleen O’Donnell,
JD ’80, president of the Massachusetts Bar
Association (MBA), introduced some of the
MBA’s newest initiatives. Pictured with Kathleen
O’Donnell is Stacey Ober, JD ’97.
On November 15, 2004, Hon. Robert
Mulligan, JD ’68, chief justice for administration
and management of the Massachusetts Trial
Court, spoke about the technology and facilities
challenges facing Massachusetts’ courts. With
Justice Mulligan are classmates John Mulvee,
JD ’68 and Michael Matz, JD ’68.
The new site is more user friendly and
easier to navigate. If you haven’t yet
registered, now is the time to do so.
Members of the online community enjoy
the benefit of easy communication with
friends and classmates. Did you ever
wonder what happened to that friend
from Con Law? Search the alumni
directory and find out.
Post news about a wedding, births, or
your new law firm. Did you know that the
Online Yellow Pages enable you to find
products and services advertised by
Andrea Cabral, JD ’86, Suffolk County Sheriff,
shown here with Dean Robert H. Smith, spoke
about women in law enforcement and public
service on March 28.
fellow alumni and members from other
alumni communities? You can post your
own listing to promote your law firm or
services at no charge.
On January 24, Barbara Anthony, JD ’77, director
of the Federal Trade Commission’s Northeast
Region, outlined the FTC’s enforcement policies in
the consumer and antitrust arenas. With Barbara
Anthony is Dean Robert H. Smith.
Update your address information and send
us your email address. More and more of
our alumni event invitations are distributed
exclusively by email and we don’t want you
to be left out.
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Oliver Mitchell, JD ’79, chairman of Ford Motor
Company’s Dealer Policy Board, spoke about the
importance of eliminating bias and promoting
diversity within the legal profession on April 8.
With Oliver Mitchell is Daniel Hogan, JD ’94,
president, Suffolk Law School Alumni Association.
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ALUMNI NEWS
Alumni Chapter Events
The Greater New York Chapter enjoyed
a concert and reception at Carnegie Hall
on April 1.
Greater New York Chapter
(L to R) Andrea Eisenberg, JD ’79; Kate Rooney,
MPA ’04; and Janine Geraigery, JD ’03.
Members of the Greater New York Chapter at a wine tasting on November 16, 2004.
(L to R) Richard Bass; Skitch Henderson, founder
and conductor, NY Pops Orchestra; Diane Frankel
Schoenfeld, director of alumni relations; and Paula
Prifti Weafer, director of alumni relations, Sawyer
School of Management.
Greater Boston Chapter
Recent Graduate Financial Workshops
On January 27 David Murray, JD ’02, led the
home-buying and mortgage workshop.
Sports Law Panel
On March 7 Arthur Goldberg, JD ’74, spoke
about starting one’s own law practice.
Chocolate Buffet on April 5
On May 2, a program co-sponsored with the
Massachusetts Bar Association featured three
attorneys serving as in-house counsel for Boston
sports teams. (L to R) Jack Mula, New England
Patriots; Michael Wall, Boston Bruins; and
Lucinda Treat, Boston Red Sox.
Recent Grad Holiday Party
December 2, 2004
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(L to R) Ryan Dietz, JD ’01; Professor Charles
Kindregan, Jr.; Dean Robert H. Smith; and Tanya
Oldenhoff, JD ’00.
Marie Richards Breen, JD ’88; and Kimberly
Brooks, JD ’95.
(L to R) Lucy Rivera, JD ’01; Dana Casali, JD ’99, copresident, Boston Alumni Chapter; Chris Micchia, JD
’94, clerk, Boston Alumni Chapter; and Lena Wong.
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for
ALUMNI NEWS
Alumni
Metropolitan Washington, DC, Chapter
Red Sox vs. Baltimore Orioles
October 2, 2004
Book Signing by Best-Selling Author
and Alumnus, January 18
(L to R) Daniel Hogan, JD ’94, president, Suffolk
Law School Alumni Association; Robert Serino,
JD ’69, treasurer, Washington, DC, Alumni
Chapter; Stephani Hildebrandt, JD ’00, president, Washington, DC, Alumni Chapter; and
Gregory Noone, JD ’90, Alumni Association
Board of Directors.
James Bamford, BA ’71, JD ’75, met with area
alumni and discussed his recent book, A Pretext
for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America’s
Intelligence Agencies. With James Bamford is
Ann Hagan, JD ’76.
The Sports Club/LA
The Boston location of The Sports
Club/LA is conveniently located just
steps from Suffolk Law School and
offers over 100,000 square feet of
fitness and spa facilities. Suffolk
University alumni (including faculty,
staff, and students) may take advantage
of a variety of preferred membership
rates including:
• Health Membership
• Squash Membership
New Hampshire Chapter
• Access East Coast Membership:
Members of the New Hampshire Chapter
convened at the annual dinner held on February 17 at the Bedford Village Inn.
New York, Miami, Washington, DC,
and Boston locations
• Bicoastal Membership: Los Angeles,
Orange County, Beverly Hills, San
Francisco, New York, Miami,
Washington, DC, and Boston
For questions about membership or to
arrange an appointment for a tour of the
Club, please call 617.375.8200 or visit
www.thesportsclubla.com. Don’t forget
to mention that you are a graduate of
Suffolk University.
(L to R) Paul Gagnon, JD ’77; Martha Jacques,
JD ’01; and Susan Atlas, JD ’92.
Jennifer Parent, JD ’95, president, New Hampshire
Alumni Chapter; and Hon. John Maher, JD ’68.
Los Angeles Chapter
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Members of the Los Angeles Chapter met at a reception on March 1 at the Four
Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills.
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(L to R) Debra Carr, JD ’81, President, LA Alumni
Chapter; Nancy Garabedian; Robert Dini; and
Brendan Monaghan, JD ’93, vice president, LA
Alumni Chapter.
(L to R) Tara Schlener; Susan Schlener, JD ’82;
Javier Kinney, JD ’04; Dean Robert H. Smith; and
Robert Wolf, JD ’68.
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New Opportunities
for
Alumni
South Florida Chapter Events
On March 13, Marilyn and Sidney Rosenthal, JD ’56,
hosted a brunch in West Palm Beach.
New Alumni Benefit
Suffolk University’s Alumni Association
is now an associate member of the
Association of College and University
Lois Morse, JD ’72; and Norman Morse, JD ’72.
Clubs (ACUC). ACUC is a non-profit
organization of campus-based clubs
located throughout North America,
Europe, Asia, and Australia. Over 100
clubs worldwide participate in the ACUC
reciprocity program, facilitating academic
interaction by opening their doors to club
members visiting from other campuses. As
Edward Masterman, JD ’50, LLD ‘90 (Hon.); and
Norman White, BSBA ’51, friends who first met
in junior high school, enjoyed reminiscing.
a Suffolk University graduate, the ACUC
is now your link to an international
community of member-only clubs on or
Joseph White, JD ’00; and Kendra White.
near the campuses of some of the world’s
leading colleges and universities. One of
On March 15, Ann Frank, JD ’72, and Peter Frank, JD ’71, hosted a reception in Naples.
the greatest benefits of reciprocity
between ACUC clubs is the opportunity to
use other clubs for business meetings and
to book hotel or overnight guest rooms at
a number of the university clubs. In
addition to the convenience of staying on
campus, club guest quarters often are on
a par with elegant boutique hotels, at a
fraction of the cost. The ACUC network
offers reciprocal privileges at exclusive
Ann Frank, JD ’72; and Peter Frank, JD ’71.
(L to R) Irene Cameron; Hon. Lawrence Cameron,
JD ’51, DJur ’67 (Hon.), University trustee; and
Kathryn Battillo, vice president for advancement.
clubs throughout Canada, the United
States, Europe, Australia, and Asia. For
a complete list of reciprocal clubs go to
the ACUC web site at www.acuclubs.org.
If you would like to participate in the
ACUC network, please contact the Law
School Office of Alumni Relations for
details and a membership card.
617.305.1999, fax 617.573.8151 or
diane.schoenfeld@suffolk.edu.
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A Guiding Star
Janis Schiff,
JD ’83
Partner, Holland & Knight LLP
before launching the rising stars mentoring and
leadership program in early 2003, Janis Schiff realized that
whenever a woman was needed to take part in a committee,
she was the one selected. She recognized a need for greater
leadership and professional development opportunities for
women attorneys, as well as higher compensation—and
decided to take action.
A partner in the Washington, DC, office of Holland & Knight
LLP, Schiff designed and developed the Rising Stars program,
which will begin its third year as part of the firm’s Women’s
Initiative, “to promote women into leadership positions within
the firm, elevate their profile within the legal profession and
the community, and increase their success in business development.” Five female attorneys enter an intensive, yearlong
professional development program that provides hands-on
leadership, marketing and management training, professional
mentoring, and experiential learning.
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Deputy section leader of Holland & Knight’s national real
estate section and a member of the firm’s board of directors,
Schiff represents developers, owners, and landlords in the
acquisition, development, and leasing of retail, office, and
mixed-use real estate projects throughout the country. She
is active in the International Council of Shopping Centers,
Women in Retail Real Estate, and Commercial Real Estate
Women (CREW). Her clients and projects have included
Gallery Place, 4500 Wisconsin Avenue, Madison Marquette,
Kodiak Properties, Federal Realty Investment Trust, Roadside
Development, and Toll Brothers. In 2004, CREW’s Washington,
DC, chapter presented Schiff with its outstanding achievement
award. “Janis is one of Washington’s most influential and
dynamic leaders who has made a lasting impact in the legal
industry and business community,” says CREW President
Dawn Marcus.
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She serves on the board of the Georgetown University Law
School Advanced Commercial Leasing Institute and is an
adjunct professor at The Johns Hopkins University Berman
Real Estate Institute. Real Estate Forum magazine recently
named her one of the top women in commercial real estate.
Professor Barry Brown first met Schiff when she was a student
in his first-year property class. Her interest in property law
continued throughout law school. Professor Brown recalls,
“With her work in my advanced seminar in land finance and
development, it became clear that Janis possessed the energy,
creativity, and analytical skills that pointed to her future success
as a great real estate lawyer.” Since law school, Professor
Brown has continued to work with Janis, and their respective
families have become close friends. Commenting on the scope
and complexity of her practice at Holland & Knight, Brown
believes that few other lawyers have the drive, technical skills,
and organizational ability that Janis does. These qualities are
combined with a charismatic personality that “makes her
unmatched for helping her clients succeed in achieving
their goals.”
Schiff, who remembers Suffolk University Law School as “a
tremendous place to learn and prepare for the practice of
law,” grew up in Fairfield, Connecticut, and moved to
Washington, DC, after a semester-long program there through
Brandeis University, her undergraduate alma mater. She has
been married for 25 years to her husband, Phil, an attorney
and director of operations at the American Association of
Blood Banks. They live in Bethesda, Maryland, and have a
teenage son, Justin.
Amid all this success, she still considers founding the Rising
Stars program “one of the most rewarding things I’ve done in
my career.” •
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The Defense Never Rests
David Chesnoff,
JD ’79
Partner, Goodman & Chesnoff
you may be familiar with some of high-profile
Las Vegas attorney David Chesnoff’s recent clients: Shaquille
O’Neal, Andre Agassi, Jamie Foxx, Britney Spears. You may
also have seen him on CNBC, ABC Nightly News, Larry King
Live, A&E’s American Justice, or the Charlie Rose Show.
Chesnoff, who once dreamed of courtroom success as a member
of the moot court team at Suffolk University Law School, now
practices with the mayor of Las Vegas, Oscar B. Goodman, in
the firm of Goodman & Chesnoff—one of the top criminal
defense firms in the United States.
His criminal defense, civil litigation, and federal appeals work
has included defending US District Court Judge Harry Claiborne
in a US Senate impeachment trial; Morris Shenker, attorney for
teamster president Jimmy Hoffa and owner of the Dunes Hotel
and Casino, in a federal bankruptcy fraud prosecution; Diane
Salome in the largest money-laundering case in federal court
history in Pennsylvania; and Marion “Suge” Knight, president
of Death Row Records, in a five-year federal income tax,
money-laundering, and racketeering investigation, in which
the government ultimately determined that no charges should
be brought against Chesnoff’s client.
Above and beyond what he calls “an intense practice,”
Chesnoff, who has tried criminal cases in 30 US states, also
teaches trial techniques at the National College for Criminal
Defense and is a member of the board of directors of the
National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys.
He credits much of his success to his Suffolk education.
“What I gained at Suffolk was outstanding preparation, and I
was very impressed with the people I studied with,” he says.
“David was a student at a time in the Law School’s history
when it was just beginning to become nationally known,”
Professor Herbert Lemelman says. “His hard work and
determined personality brought him to the forefront of the
criminal defense bar in places far distant from Boston.”
Suffolk Trustee Michael G. George agrees: “The extraordinary
success that this brilliant attorney has earned in his distinguished
legal career reflects as well on the University as it does on
David. Though he has excelled in a challenging, competitive
environment, David remains gracious and humble.”
Of the media attention surrounding some of his cases, Chesnoff,
who represented Martha Stewart in her appeal, says, “In this
day and age, the media is a big part of criminal law, especially
in high-profile cases. It can help your client if you use it right.
You certainly have to show the side of your client that you
want the jury and judge to know, and the media can help
you do that.”
A graduate of Alfred University, Chesnoff was born in Paterson,
New Jersey, grew up in Israel and New York, and moved to
Las Vegas—his home for 25 years—after a brief stop in Houston,
Texas, for his first job out of Suffolk Law. He has been married
to his wife, Diana, an outstanding equestrian, for 20 years, and
they have a teenage son, Max, who is a nationally ranked junior
tennis player. •
by Steven Withrow
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Brian Grearson was appointed a district
court judge in Vermont.
NEWSMAKER
Jayne B. Tyrrell, JD ’72, was honored in September
by the Massachusetts Bar Foundation (MBF) as a
“Great Friend of Justice,” for her dedication to providing
legal services to the poor and improving access to
justice. Tyrrell’s effective leadership as executive
director of the Massachusetts Interest on Lawyer Trust
Accounts (IOLTA) Program, has led to the adoption by
Massachusetts’ banks of favorable administrative policies
toward IOLTA. Several years ago, Massachusetts had
the highest IOLTA revenue of any other state, including
those with greater numbers of attorneys.
“Jayne has worked tirelessly over the last 11 years to
maximize the income for grants that are awarded by the foundation…she’s been a
leader in this arena on a number of fronts—forging stronger relationships with the
banking community, serving as a key member of the national litigation team that
fought, and won, to hold IOLTA programs as constitutional, and her myriad of other
access-to-justice activities,” says Anthony Stankiewicz, JD ‘87, president of the MBF.
“She makes an impact every day.”
1955
Paul Lausier has retired after serving 45
years as town counsel in Marblehead.
Andrew L. Mandell was named first
justice of the Fitchburg District Court.
1967
Stephen Morrison was named presiding
justice of Dover District Court in New
Hampshire.
Gary L. Fialky, a partner in the law firm
of Bacon & Wilson, P.C., in Springfield,
received an award from the Massachusetts
Bar Association for exemplary community
service work in Western Massachusetts.
1968
Russell Gaudreau, Jr., a partner at Ropes
& Gray LLP, was included in the 2005-2006
edition of The Best Lawyers in America.
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Theodore A. Schwartz,
a partner in the firm of M.
Mark Mendel, Ltd., received
the Pennsylvania Trial
Lawyers Association’s
Community Service Award
for his extraordinary and
long-standing efforts on behalf of the
developmentally disabled.
1973
Class Correspondent
Richard Weiss
w: Weiss & Nestro
15 Court Square, Suite 210
Boston, MA 02108
phone: 617.742.2900
1974
Jane V. Hawkes, a partner in the business
formation practice area at Bowditch &
Dewey, has been named to the list of
Massachusetts Super Lawyers.
Robert E. Longden, a partner in the
environmental law and real estate practice
area of Bowditch & Dewey, was named to
the list of Massachusetts Super Lawyers.
Robert C. Rufo was appointed associate
justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court.
1976
Class Correspondent
Virginia Bonesteel
w: Van Wert & Zimmer, PC
One Militia Drive
Lexington, MA 02420
phone: 781.863.2951
email: vabvwz@world.std.com
Charley Barr was named executive vice
president and general counsel of XL
Capital Ltd., a Bermuda-based NYSE-listed
insurance, reinsurance, and financial
products company.
Robert Cornetta, BA ’72, was appointed
first justice of the Salem District Court.
Donald Fries has joined the Glynn Law
Offices in Falmouth and focuses his practice
on real estate, tax-deferred property
transactions, and business matters.
Paul K. Leary was named president-elect
of the National Board of Trial Advocacy for
the 2004-2005 term.
John McMorrow, an
attorney at Pierce Atwood
LLP, was named to the
board of directors of the
Maine Employee Benefits
Council.
Alan S. Pierce was named president of
the Massachusetts Academy of Trial
Attorneys.
Paul Reiber has been appointed chief
justice of the Vermont Supreme Court.
1975
John R. Rathgeber was named chief
operating officer of the Connecticut
Business and Industry Association and
appointed to its board of directors.
Class Correspondents
Richard Cuffe
w: Bradley, Moore, Primason, Cuffe & Weber
85 Exchange Street
Lynn, MA 01901
phone: 781.595.2050
fax: 781.599.5160
email: rcuffe@bradleymoorelaw.com
Paul Kelly
w: Segal, Roitman & Coleman
11 Beacon Street, Suite 500
Boston, MA 02108
phone: 617.742.0208
fax: 617.742.2187
David G. Spackman, a
shareholder in the Boston
office of Greenberg Traurig
LLP, was included in the
2005-2006 edition of The
Best Lawyers in America.
1977
Class Correspondent
Robert Turner
h: 78 Oxford Street
Winchester, MA 01890
phone: 781.729.0557
email: FDXH31B@prodigy.com
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Howard Greenspan has been appointed
legal counsel for the Groton Dunstable
Regional School District.
Linda L. Mariani, senior partner of
Mariani & Reck, LLC in New London, CT,
was appointed a director at Dime Bank.
She was also included in the 2005-2006
edition of The Best Lawyers in America.
Robert K. Sheridan, president and CEO
of The Savings Bank Life Insurance
Company of Massachusetts, was elected
vice chairperson of the board of directors
of The New England Council in Boston.
Russell E. Towers, vice president of
business and estate planning at Brokers
Service Marketing Group in Providence, RI,
was appointed president-elect of the
Rhode Island Society of Finance Service
Professionals.
Frederic S. Ury, a senior partner in the
law firm of Ury & Moskow LC of Fairfield,
CT, is president of the Connecticut Bar
Association for 2004-2005.
phone: 603.448.4722
fax: 603.448.7005
email: NSTierney1@aol.com
Larry Wheatley
h: 608 Old Post Road
Cotuit, MA 02635
phone: 508.428.8636
email: LarryWheatley@comcast.com
w: phone: 508.428.7515
fax: 508.437.7747
Christine L. Butler,
a partner at Butler and
Monks in Cambridge,
received the 2005 M.
Patricia Cronin Award for
Public Policy, given by
Jane Doe Inc. Butler was
recognized for her work on behalf of victims
of domestic violence and as co-director of
the Battered Women’s Advocacy Program
at Suffolk Law School.
James G. Dowling, Jr., was elected a
fellow of the Connecticut Bar Foundation
James W. Cooper Fellows Program.
Richard J. Kos, an attorney with Egan,
Flanagan, and Cohen in Chicopee, was
elected to the board of trustees at
Elms College.
1978
Class Correspondents
Daniel Russo
h: 78 Hawks Nest Circle
Middletown, CT 06457-1514
phone: 860.347.5651
Ronald K. Machtley, president of Bryant
University, has been inducted into the
Providence Gridiron Club Hall of Fame.
Nancy Tierney
w: Tierney Law Office
One Court Street, Suite 360
Lebanon, NH 03766
Steven L. Wollman received the Great
Friend of Justice Award from the
Massachusetts Bar Foundation, where
he has served as a trustee for the last
six years.
1979
Class Correspondent
Marcia McGair Ippolito
h: 42 Knowles Drive
Warwick, RI 02888
phone: 401.463.7468
Mark B. Decof was named a 2004
“Lawyer of the Year” by Rhode Island
Lawyers Weekly.
Francis J. Russell, a partner in the
Worcester law firm of Mountain, Dearborn
& Whiting, was appointed to the Board of
Bar Overseers for a four-year term.
Hedwig Veith Whitney has joined the
executive team of Aspen Technology, Inc.,
in Cambridge. As senior vice president for
human resources, Whitney is responsible
for designing and implementing worldwide
organizational management practices to
help AspenTech deliver on its strategic and
financial objectives.
1980
Class Correspondent
Edwin Wallace
h: 11 Herrick Street
Winchester, MA 01890
phone: 617.729.4941
HOUSE NEWS
House Speaker
Salvatore F.
DiMasi, JD ‘71,
DPA ‘05 (Hon.)
House Majority
Leader John H.
Rogers, JD ‘92
House Ways
and Means
Chairman Robert
DeLeo, JD ’76
Suffolk Law School graduates have long
enjoyed positions of prominence within the
state’s political hub. That strong tradition of
leadership continued when Salvatore F.
DiMasi, JD ’71, DPA ‘05 (Hon.) who
has represented the 3rd Suffolk District in
Boston since 1979, was elected to serve as
Speaker of the House in September 2004.
At his inauguration DiMasi outlined his
vision for the future, telling colleagues,
“I believe that government can be as good
as the people who serve in it, and that
government exists in order to be a catalyst
for the improvement of the quality of
the lives of all of our citizens. We must
assist and nurture the entrepreneurial
spirit that has long been the hallmark
of Massachusetts.”
DiMasi immediately began a historic
reorganization of the House so that it
might better respond to different economic
sectors, embrace opportunities for growth,
and improve the business climate in
Massachusetts. He chose several fellow
Suffolk Law School alumni to partner
with him in key leadership positions.
John H. Rogers, JD ‘92, who has
represented Norwood and Walpole since
1992, and previously chaired the House
Committees on Ways and Means, Taxation,
and the Judiciary was tapped as House
Majority Leader in January.
“The three of us working in unison with
the rest of the House know that the twin
principles of prudence and humanity must
continue to guide us as we work to take
Massachusetts to new heights and better
fiscal times,“ says Rogers.
Robert DeLeo, JD ’76, who has
represented Winthrop and a portion of
Revere since 1991, was appointed
chairman of the House Committee on
Ways and Means in February.
According to DeLeo, “The experience of
crafting a $23.6 billion budget for the
Commonwealth has been one of the most
interesting, fulfilling, and difficult in my
professional life.”
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Jonathan L. Healy was appointed a
museum trustee for Historic Deerfield.
NEWSMAKER
Bruce R. Henry was appointed a justice
of the Massachusetts Superior Court.
Michael Bolden, JD ’78, former commissioner of
the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services, has
been appointed an associate justice of the Roxbury
division of the Boston Municipal Court by Governor
Mitt Romney. Before joining DYS in 2002, Bolden
served for three years as acting secretary and undersecretary for the state executive office of public safety
before being specially assigned by then-Governor
Jane Swift to coordinate the state response to the
September 11th attacks.
1981
Class Correspondent
Sheila Tracey
h: 7 Sonrel Street
Woburn, MA 01801-5250
phone: 781.933.0838
email: jmcelhiney94@comcast.net
David E. Cherny, a partner in Atwood
& Cherny, P.C., in Boston, was named a
Massachusetts Super Lawyer in the field
of family law.
Corinne Diana has married Heather
Baker. They live in Woburn.
Nancy J. Marks was promoted to the
position of division counsel/associate chief
counsel, tax exempt and government entitites, within the Internal Revenue Service.
1982
Class Correspondent
Edward L. Wallack
w: Sapers & Wallack
101 Rogers Street
Cambridge, MA 02142
Phone: 617.225.2600
fax: 617.494.5485
e-mail: wallack @sapers-wallack.com
Thomas Doyle, an attorney at Pierce Atwood LLP,
in Portland, ME, was
included in the 2005-2006
edition of The Best Lawyers
in America.
1983
Class Correspondent
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h: 152 Adams Street
Milton, MA 02186
phone: 617.698.4594
email: adamsmulvey@msn.com
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Daniel F. Conley, the district attorney
of Suffolk County in Massachusetts, was
elected president of the Massachusetts
District Attorneys Association.
Margo Cooper has a photo exhibition on
display at the National Heritage Museum in
Lexington through June.
Thomas J. Curley Jr., associate justice of
the Massachusetts Superior Court, was
honored by the St. Thomas More Society
of Springfield.
“I see this appointment as the ultimate reward in a
very satisfying career in public service,” Bolden says.
“I often compared a judge in the district court to a community referee, someone who
makes sure everyone plays by the rules and resolves disputes when the parties
disagree. I am confident that the lessons learned throughout my 27-year career will
serve me well as a judge.”
Ellen McLaughlin was named senior vice
president, general counsel at the Federal
Home Loan Bank of Boston.
Joyce McNeill has retired after 35 years
as a guidance counselor at Ipswich High
School.
Jonathan D. Tamkin, a partner in the
Newton law firm of Tamkin & Hochberg,
LLP, was appointed a member of the Board
of Appeals of Needham.
1984
Class Correspondent
Mario Iglesias
w: Adams, Gallinar & Iglesias
Colonial Bank Centre, Suite 9
1200 Brickell Avenue
Miami, FL 33131
phone: 305.416.6830
email: miglesias@agimlaw.com
Edward P. Flaherty argued a case before
the United Nations Administrative Tribunal
(UNAT) in New York on behalf of 150
locally recruited UNHCR staff in Pristina,
Kosovo, who had their salary entitlements
wrongfully reduced by UN management. A
partner in a Swiss commercial law firm, he
is living with his wife, Margaret, and two
children, Eamonn and Abaigh, in Geneva,
Switzerland. He is always happy to hear
from former classmates at flaherty@
sfalegal.com.
Charles J. Keilty, a partner with Stern,
Keilty & Wall, LLC of Salem, was elected to
the board of directors of the Essex County
Bar Association.
Susan D. Ricci, an associate justice of the
probate court in Worcester, received the
Distinguished Jurist Award from the St.
Thomas More Society of Worcester.
Rachel S. Rubin was appointed to the
new post of special counsel for ethics
compliance for the executive branch of the
State of Connecticut.
Sarah Verville, a member
of the environmental
practice group at Pierce
Atwood LLP, has been
named to a three-year
term on the board of the
National Hydropower
Association in Washington, DC.
1985
Class Correspondent
Michael Callahan
h: 247 Humphrey Street
Marblehead, MA 01945
w: NSTAR Service Co.
Prudential Tower
800 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02199
phone: 617.424.2102
fax: 617.424.2733
email: michael_callahan@NSTARonline.com
James B. Bartlett has joined Bergen &
Parkinson, LLC, as managing attorney of its
York, Maine, office.
Louis M. Ciavarra, a partner in the
business litigation practice area at
Bowditch & Dewey, was named to the
list of Massachusetts Super Lawyers.
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Robert D. Cox, Jr., a partner in the environmental law and real estate practice area
of Bowditch & Dewey, was named to the
list of Massachusetts Super Lawyers.
Jason M. Honeyman, chair
of the mechanical practice
group at Wolf, Greenfield
& Sacks, P.C., has been
elected managing partner
and president of the firm.
Honeyman also was
featured as a Massachusetts Super Lawyer.
Eva Marie Mancuso, a managing partner
for the law offices of Hamel, Waxler, Allen
and Collins, was inducted into the
Cranston, RI, Hall of Fame.
David C. Nunheimer has opened a law
office in Hyannis.
Patrick T. O’Regan, Jr. has married
Cecily Anne Snyder. They live in East
Falmouth.
David H. Reiter was named director of legal
affairs for URAC in Washington, DC. He is the
author and managing editor of The Utilization
Management Guide, third edition.
Theodore R. Tyma was appointed a
superior court judge in Connecticut.
Boston, MA 02111
phone: 617.951.1118
email: drp@rackemann.com
Doug Sears
w: P.O. Box 669
Tewksbury, MA 01876-0669
email: dwsear@mediaone.net
Joe Wadland
w: Wadland & Ackerman
28 Elm Street
Andover, MA 01810
phone: 978.474.8880
email: jwadland@wadacklaw.com
1987
Class Correspondents
Mark Darling
w: Cogavin & Waystack
2 Center Plaza
Boston, MA 02108
phone: 617.742.3340
email: m5kids@cybercom.net
Michael F. Walsh
w: Law Offices of Michael F. Walsh, P.C.
1200 East Street
Westwood, MA 02090
phone: 781.251.0100
fax: 781.251.2266
e-mail: mfwalsh@hotmail.com
Michele Garvin, an attorney with Ropes
& Gray LLP, was included in the 2005-2006
edition of The Best Lawyers in America.
1986
Class Correspondents
Mark Barnett
h: 158 Norman Road
Brockton, MA 02302
phone: 508.584.7164
Donald Pinto
w: Rackemann, Sawyer & Brewster
One Financial Center
Sylvia L. Pusateri, president of the
Fitchburg law firm of Pusateri & Pusateri,
received the Distinguished Attorney Award
from the St. Thomas More Society of
Worcester.
Gordon M. Smith was appointed to the
new position of Rhode Island Adult Drug
Court magistrate.
1988
Class Correspondent
Karen Lynch Bernard
h: 42 Drum Rock Avenue
Warwick, RI 02886
phone: 401.739.6585
Nanette A. Avril has joined the law office
of Michael M. Ransmeier in Littleton.
Martin W. Healy, BS ’85,
general counsel and acting
executive director of the
Massachusetts Bar
Association (MBA), received
the President’s Award
during the MBA’s Annual
Dinner program in March. The President’s
Award is given to individuals who have
made a significant contribution to the work
of the MBA, its values, and initiatives.
Shari Levitan, chair of the New England
Private Wealth Services practice for
Holland & Knight, LLP, has been named
a Massachusetts Super Lawyer.
Kathryn A. O’Leary, a trial lawyer with
Gould & Ettenberg, P.C. in Worcester, was
appointed to a five-year term on the
Clients’ Security Board.
Gregory P. Vasil was appointed senior
vice president and legislative counsel for
the Greater Boston Real Estate Board.
1989
Class Correspondents
Meaghan Barrett
h: 21 Loew Circle
Milton, MA 02186
phone: 617.361.4288
NEWSMAKER
Kathleen M. O’Donnell, JD ’80, is president of the
Massachusetts Bar Association (MBA) for 2004-2005.
Since 1982, she has practiced with Marcotte Law Firm
in Lowell, a general-practice firm with an emphasis on
personal injury law. A major item on her agenda as
MBA president, in addition to working with the legislative
and judicial branches of state government, is the
launch and maintenance of a Web-based judicial
evaluation system in which MBA members can log on
to the association’s site and evaluate judges “based
on fair criteria after they’ve appeared before a judge.“
Of her “humbling” new role, O’Donnell says, “The
magnitude of what lawyers do each and every day throughout the commonwealth is
overwhelming. It is a privilege to serve as the spokesperson for all of the dedicated
and committed lawyers in our state.”
Chad Kindregan III
w: Looney & Grossman LLP
101 Arch Street
Boston, MA 02110
phone: 617.951.2800
e-mail: ckindregan@lgllp.com
Laila Maalouf
w: 20 Whitney Road
Quincy, MA 02169
phone: 617.689.0000
fax: 617.984.1885
Timothy McCrystal
w: Ropes & Gray
One International Place
Boston, MA 02110
phone: 617.951.7000
email: tmccryst@ropesgray.com
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Eric Crane is a unit manager with
Premier Insurance Company in Danvers.
He has served on the Danvers School
Committee since 2000.
Mary McLaughlin, area
vice president, Northern
New England, for Adelphia
Communications in South
Burlington, VT, was named
to the board of trustees at
Champlain College in
Burlington, VT.
1990
Class Correspondent
Joel R. Davidson
w: Law Office of Joel R. Davidson
PO Box 14
Wollaston, MA 02170
phone: 617.773.9092
fax: 617.770.0930
email: JDavid3537@aol.com
Carolyn Carpentier was named director
of human resources for Charlton
Memorial Hospital.
Theodore M. Hess-Mahan, an attorney
with the Boston firm of Shapiro Haber &
Urmy LLP, was named co-chairman of the
Class Actions Committee of the Litigation
Section of the Boston Bar Association.
1991
Class Correspondent
Gary Merken
h: 791 Robinhood Road
Rosemont, PA 19010
phone: 610.581.4119
email: gary.merken@verizon.net
Lisa M. Cukier, has been named a partner
with Burno & Levinson LLP. Cukier is a
member of the probate litigation group,
divorce and family law group, and family
advisory services team. She also is president
of the Massachusetts Family and Probate
Inn of Court for 2004-2005.
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Joseph D. McDonald, Jr., was elected
sheriff of Plymouth County in Massachusetts.
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Christine Griggs
Narcisse, an attorney with
the Worcester law firm of
McGuire and McGuire,
received the Distinguished
Ecumenical Award from
the St. Thomas More
Society of Worcester.
David P. Panagore, MPA ’93, has been
named deputy director of the city of
Springfield Finance Control Board.
1992
Class Correspondent
Jeff Padwa
h: 25 Margrave Avenue
Providence, RI 02906-5167
phone: 401.273.8330
Steven A. Torres, city solicitor in
Taunton, has been elected to the executive
committee of the City Solicitors and Town
Counsel Association for 2004-2005.
Peri Aptaker, a principal and director of
tax services at Kahn Litwin Renza & Co.,
Ltd., was named president of the Jewish
Family Services board of directors in
Providence, RI.
1994
Class Correspondent
John W. Lyle, Jr., was named superintendent of schools for Block Island, RI.
Judy Crowley
w: Daly, Crowley & Mofford, LLP
275 Turnpike Street, Suite 101
Canton, MA 02021
phone: 781.401.9988
fax: 781.401.9966
email: jcc@dc-m.com
Linda Turteltaub has been appointed
corporate counsel for Skanska USA
Building in Parsippany, NJ.
Susan M. Basham has joined Price,
Postel & Parma LLP in the land use,
environmental, and natural resources group.
1993
Peter F. Carr II, a partner in the law firm
of Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott in
Boston, has married Dr. Lisi Warren. They
are living in Boston.
John Keenan was elected to the
Massachusetts House of Representatives,
7th Essex district.
Class Correspondent
Eileen McAnneny
w: Associated Industries of Massachusetts
222 Berkeley Street, PO Box 763
Boston, MA 02117
phone: 617.262.1180
Sheryl Bourbeau has become associated
with Gallagher & Cavanaugh LLP in Lowell.
Joan M. McMenemy was appointed
second assistant to the Berkshire County
district attorney in Massachusetts.
Ernst Guerrier, BS ’91, principal of Guerrier
and Associates, P.C., in Dorchester, was
named to the list of Massachusetts Super
Lawyers.
Joshua D. Koskoff, a partner at Koskoff,
Koskoff & Bieder, has been named one of
Connecticut’s “New Leaders of the Law” in
the Development of the Law category by
the Connecticut Law Tribune.
NEWSMAKER
Diane Murphy Quinlan, JD ’90, is the first lay
chancellor of the Diocese of Manchester, New
Hampshire, and the highest-ranking lay person in the
diocesan administration. Bishop John B. McCormack
appointed Quinlan chancellor in December 2004.
She began working with the diocese in 2002 during
the most turbulent time in its history, as hundreds of
new complaints of sexual abuse of minors came
forth in the wake of the growing scandal in the
Archdiocese of Boston. She helped the diocese
“formulate a response to victims that was more pastoral
than confrontational. I was able to talk on a peer
level with the lawyers representing the Diocese and help them understand that first
we needed to help anyone who was harmed.”
Quinlan, who previously practiced labor and employment law at the Manchester firm
of Devine Millimet, also has implemented an educational program to promote
children’s awareness of the dangers of abuse. “As a mother of two elementary
school children, I wanted to help the Church create something that will resonate
with both children and parents.”
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NEWSMAKER
Saher J. Macarius, JD ’94, a Framingham attorney
and Egyptian national, successfully argued Succar v.
Ashcroft before the US Court of Appeals for the First
Circuit. The case concerned the 1996 Illegal
Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act,
which curtailed many immigrants’ rights and forms of
relief. Through regulation, the attorney general later
added another category of immigrants, including
those arriving in the United States without a visa.
Those who were allowed in for humanitarian reasons
would be barred from adjusting their status to permanent
residency (obtaining a green card), and many were subsequently deported in
violation of Congressional intent.
“At first impression, Succar v. Ashcroft is a groundbreaking case solely for finding
this regulation to be invalid,” Macarius says. “However, this landmark case also
delves further into how the attorney general and any other executive agency, enacts
a regulation. This decision [entered on January 5], one of the most extensive for an
immigration issue, has a direct impact on all executive agencies, as it draws a road
map that dictates the proper procedure to enact a regulation.”
Dana Randles has joined Houlihan/
Lawrence, an independent residential real
estate firm, in its Pound Ridge and South
Salem, NY, offices as a sales associate.
1995
Class Correspondent
Gary Murad
h: 75 Cambridge Parkway, Apt. E110
Cambridge, MA 02142
phone: 617.621.0119
Seth Ellis has married Stefanie Davidson.
They live in Boca Raton, FL.
Daniel Graves was elected president of
the Franklin County Bar Association for
2004-2005.
Matthew Maiona has married Sara
Ward, JD ’02. They live in Boston.
Robert J. Tosti has joined
the Boston office of
Edwards & Angell as a
partner. The intellecutal
property attorney was
formerly with Testa,
Hurwitz & Thibeault.
1996
Class Correspondents
Jennifer Hoopis D’Ambra
w: Hoopis & Hoopis
33 College Hill Road, Bldg. 5B
Warwick, RI 02886
phone: 401.823.6266
fax: 401.823.6265
email: hoopis@aol.com
Michael Lartigue
h: 32B Whites Avenue, #8806
Watertown, MA 02472
phone: 617.926.6824
email: mjl96@hotmail.com
Ray Lyons
h: 125 Hayden Road
Groton, MA 01450
phone: 978.692.7000
email: attylyons@aol.com
Michael Palladino
w: UMass Donahue Institute
10 Tremont Street, 4th floor
Boston, MA 02108
phone: 617.367.8901
fax: 617.367.1434
email: palladino@donahue.umassp.edu
Adam L. Benjamin was named senior
vice president and equity research analyst
for semiconductor devices at Jefferies &
Company, Inc.
Melanie Brockway, an attorney with the
law firm of LaTanzi, Spaulding & Landreth,
P.C., in Orleans, has married Brendan
O’Keefe. They are living in Orleans.
Rebecca Collet was named associate
athletic director for marketing communications at Boston University. Collet, who
was previously director of corporate affairs
for John Hancock Financial Services, was
most recently a principal of Collet
Communications LLC, the private public
relations and communications strategies
firm she founded in November 2004.
Christopher Cassara, an attorney in the
corporate practice group of Partridge,
Snow & Hahn, LLP, in New Bedford, was
named to the board of directors of the
Buttonwood Park Zoological Society.
Elaine Martel, senior legal counsel for
Stratus Technologies of Maynard, received
the George B. Morgan ’20 Award from the
MIT Alumni Association for sustained
excellence in her service to its Educational
Council.
Michael T. Matraia has
formed a law practice in
Worcester that will help
audit committees of public
companies carry out their
responsibilities and comply
with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
Jeannine Reardon, BS ’93, and husband
David M. Reardon, BS ’93, JD ’99,
announce the birth of their daughter, Ashley
Rose Reardon. She was born on September
30, 2004, and weighed 5 lbs., 9 oz.
Michael Williams was listed in the 10th
annual “Lawyers of the Year” by
Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly.
1997
Class Correspondents
Dylan Carson
w: Dylan M. Carson
Kaye Scholer, LLP
The McPherson Building
901 Fifteenth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20005-2327
phone: 202.682.3664
fax: 202.414.0338
email: dcarson@kayescholer.com
Stephanie Lyons
h: 41 Hawthorn Street, Suite 34
Cambridge, MA 02138
phone: 617.234.1914
e-mail: stephlyons@comcast.com
w: Cornell & Gollub
75 Federal Street
Boston, MA 02110
phone: 617.482.8100
fax: 617.482.3917
email: slyons@cornellgollub.com
Heath E. Antonio, an assistant district
attorney in Bristol County, has married Raquel
Carvalho. They are living in New Bedford.
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Christine P. O’Connor, JD ’94, city solicitor for
Lowell since 2003, is credited with being one of the
key leaders in the city’s continuing renaissance. With
a keen understanding of energy deregulation, she’s
worked to significantly cut the city’s costs of electric
power, and has helped to bring Lowell’s bond rating
to AA-3, enabling the city to move forward with its
revitalization plans.
As Lowell’s top lawyer, O’Connor handles an
enormous range of issues involving administrative
law, litigation, general business practices, labor disputes,
tax collections, public bidding, municipal bonds,
and the public schools. Upon being named by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly as
one of the Up and Coming Lawyers of 2004, O’Connor said that her biggest
challenge “is always the deal I am working on right now.”
Roger J. Kineavy, Jr., a firefighter for the
city of Quincy, has married Cynthia Ann
Dowd. They live in Weymouth.
Matthew J. McDonough has joined the
law offices of Sherwood Guernsey, P.C., as
an associate.
Class Correspondents
Paul Cronin
h: 2 Reed Lane
Bedford, MA 01730
phone: 781.542.2290
Mark R. Quigley has joined the
Marblehead real estate brokerage firm
Landmark Properties.
Peter Fiore
h: 58 Mott Street
Arlington, MA 02474
phone: 781.646.6009
1999
Jamie Murphy
h: 17 Ruggiano Circle
Weymouth, MA 02188
phone: 617.725.8095
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Nathanael E. Wright
h: 79 Hampstead Road
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
email: Legis70@yahoo.com
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Daniel P. Barry, vice president and assistant
general counsel of Baring Asset Management
Inc. in Boston, was named co-chairman of
the Investment Companies and Advisers
Committee of the Business Law Section
of the Boston Bar Association.
Paul English, a member of the law firm
Gawryl and MacAllister in Nashua, NH, has
married Chanyn Norton. They are living in
Nashua, NH.
Tamara La Pointe, general counsel and
assistant business manager at Choate
Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, CT, has
married Robert Laurie, JD ’00, an attorney
at Edwards and Angell in Hartford, CT.
They are living in East Haddam, CT.
1998
Jenny L. Redden
w: Bellotti & Barretto, PC
25 Thorndike Street
Cambridge, MA 02141
phone: 617.225.2100
email: jlredden@earthlink.net
of Conservation and Recreation, has
married Lisa Ann Pettinato. They are
living in Brookline.
David H. Rosenberg, MBA ’97,
announces the opening of his law office,
David H. Rosenberg, P.L., a Florida limited
liability company in Sarasota, FL. specializing
in real estate and civil litigation. He can be
reached at david@srqlaw.net.
Arlington, MA 02474
phone: 781.646.1692
email: hlitsas@hotmail.com
Trevi Berretta has joined the law firm of
Gilmore, Rees, Carlson & Cataldo, P.C.
Catherine Eastwood was named an
associate in the Boston law firm of
Partridge Snow & Hahn, LLP, and is a
member of the firm’s creditors’ rights
practice group.
Kenneth M. Collette, assistant general
counsel for the Massachusetts Department
Class Correspondents
J.R. Craven
h: 95 Grayfield Avenue
W. Roxbury, MA 02132
phone: 617.323.3138
Marc Diller
w: Diller & Diller
84 State Street, 6th Floor
Boston, MA 02109
phone: 617.523.7771
fax: 617.227.1767
email: dillerlaw@aol.com
Thamir A.R. Kaddouri, Jr.
w: Law Office of Thamir A.R. Kaddouri, Jr., PA
2107 West Cass Street, Suite C
Tampa, FL 33606
phone: 813.600.5752
fax: 813.600.5785
Helen Litsas
h: 10 Wright Street
Thamir A.R. Kaddouri, Jr., and his wife
Melissa announce the birth of their daughter
Savannah Grace Kaddouri. She was born on
October 30 and weighed 6 lbs., 4.5 oz.
David M. Reardon (see Reardon, ’96)
2000
Class Correspondents
Susan M. Bourque
phone: 617.725.0400 x8385
email: smb@parkerscheer.com
Kristin Cole
h: 122 Bowdoin Street
Boston, MA 02108
phone: 617.722.0854
email: colekristin@hotmail.com
Kathleen Delaplain
h: 21 Michigan Avenue, #2
Somerville, MA 02145
phone: 617.628.5840
email: kdelaplain@hotmail.com
w: MA Dept. of Environmental Protection
Office of General Counsel
One Winter Street, 3rd Fl.
Boston, MA 02108
phone: 617.654.6650
fax: 617.338.5511
email: kathleen.delaplain@state.ma.us
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Jennifer Genzale
h: 115 Garfield Avenue
Chelsea, MA 02150
phone: 617.884.2913
email: jenng007@hotmail.com
Patrick Faherty was promoted to the
rank of sergeant in the city of Quincy
Police Department.
Stacey Friends, a trademark, copyright
and entertainment attorney with Ruberto,
Israel & Weiner, PC, was named a member
-at-large of the Intellectual Property Law
Section of the Boston Bar Association.
Sonia K. Guterman has joined the
Boston firm of Lawson & Weitzen as a
partner.
Kristen Andrikopoulos is teaching in
the science department at Reading
Memorial High School.
Robert Laurie (see LaPointe, ’98)
Geoffrey Waller has formed Reidy Waller,
LLP, a law firm specializing in civil, criminal,
and appellate litigation located in Boston.
Waller was previously a superior court
prosecutor for the Norfolk County District
Attorney’s office.
2001
Class Correspondents
Wendy I. Provoda
w: US Postal Service,
Northeast Area Law Office
8 Griffin Road North
Windsor, CT 06006-0170
phone: 860.285.1609
email: wprovoda@usps.gov
h: 40 Middlefield Drive
West Hartford, CT 06107
phone: 860.523.4772
Meredith Linnell has married Corey
Murphy. They live in Tampa, FL.
Kathleen E. Lang has joined the law
offices of Boyd & Boyd PC in Centerville.
Matthew Oleyer, MBA ’01, who is associated
with the Boston law firm of Keegan,
Werlin & Pabian, has married Ashley
Sexton. They live in Boston.
Derek Massey, vice president of title
operations and an attorney with Market
Street Settlement Group, has married
Eugenia Rutherford, JD ’03, an attorney
with Market Street Settlement Group,
Manchester, NH. They live in Bedford, NH.
Laura M. Roffo has married Matthew
Thompson, JD ’02. They are living in
South Weymouth.
2002
Annette L. Baker discussed guardianship
issues as a guest on The O’Reilly Factor, a
Fox News program.
William Burns, MBA ’04, was promoted
to the position of director within O’Neill
and Associates’ technology practice.
Megan Byrnes has been named an
associate attorney at Querrey & Harrow,
a 100-attorney law firm with offices in
greater metropolitan Chicago; Merrillville,
IN; New York City, and London, England.
Justin Fabella, an attorney with Morrison
Mahoney LLP in New York City, has married
Alison Gormley, JD ’02, an attorney with
Taub and Marder, P.C., in New York City.
Alison Gormley (see Fabella)
Justin Hayes, an attorney with the New
Hampshire Public Defenders Office, has
married Jody Dan. They live in North
Andover.
Stephen Rossetti Jr., an associate at
O’Reilly, Grosso & Gross, P.C., has married
Jill Moloney. They live in Brighton.
Matthew Thompson (see Roffo, ’01)
Sara Ward (see Maiona, ’95)
Marc M. Wefers has
become a principal in the
patent group of Fish &
Richardson P.C.
Lucinda V. Rivera
h: 463 Commonwealth Ave. #2
Boston, MA 02115
phone: 617.266.6001
email: Lucinda_Rivera@hotmail.com
Laura Unflat
h: 519 Lewis Wharf
Boston, MA 02110
phone: 617.523.0631
email: lunflat@tiac.net
Donald Wyse
h: 32 Maple Avenue
Nahant, MA 01908
phone: 781.581.0683
email: wysedd@yahoo.com
Eric Holt has married Marlena Taylor.
They live in Lawrence.
Anita Weisberg, an assistant district attorney in Essex County, has married
Dr. Robert A. Russo.
2003
Class Correspondent
Sean R. Higgins
w: Pollack & Flanders, LLP
50 Congress Street, Suite 430
Boston, MA 02109
phone: 617.259.3000
fax: 617.259.3050
email: shiggins@pollackandflanders.com
Michael McCain, has joined the law firm
of Neaton & Puklich, PLLP as an associate
attorney in Minneapolis, MN.
Melissa Gnoza, an attorney with the
Newton law firm of Tamkin & Hochberg,
LLP, has married William Ogden.They live
in Middleton.
Erica Spokis has joined the Worcester
law firm of Lian, Zarrow, Eynon & Shea
as an associate.
Jason Stone has married Aimee Terban.
They live in Chestnut Hill.
Paul Tetrault has joined the Boston law
firm of Melick, Porter & Shea, LLP.
2004
Class Correspondents
Seth N. Stratton
h: 14 Curtis Street, #3
Salem, MA 01970
978-594-5426
str09035@suffolk.edu
MaryDilys Anderson was named an
associate at Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.
Heather M. Gamache has joined Weber
Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires &
Newby as an associate in the firm’s
Philadelphia office.
Roque El-Hayek was named an associate
at Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.
Amie C. Joseph was named community
development associate for the city of
Gardner.
John K. Kelley has joined the corporate
group of Burn & Levinson LLP as an
associate in the firm’s Boston office.
Joshua Miller has married Emily Shapiro.
They live in Brookline.
Carole G. Rapoport is working at the
firm of Denner O’Malley with Rob
Sinsheimer, JD ’79, an adjunct member
of the Suffolk faculty.
David Torrisi was elected to a fourth
term as Massachusetts state representative
from the 14th Essex district.
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IN MEMORIAM
William F. Scanlon, JD ’29
Bennie Gold, JD ’34
Louis A. Cyr, JD ’50
William F. Meara, JD ’51
Francis G. Sheehan, JD ’52
Eugene E. Sololosky, JD ’54
Walter E. Steele, Sr., JD ’54
William F. DiPesa, JD ’55
Robert Cauchon, JD ’57
Robert Driscoll, JD ’65
John J. Twomey, JD ’65
John P. McGloin, JD ’66
Garth Kenyon Chandler, JD ’67
Edward Murphy, Jr., JD ’68
William P. Spanos, JD ’68
John J. Cassidy, JD ’69
Robert F. Wright, JD ’69
James R. McMahon, Jr., BS ’69, JD ’70
Henry J. Kerr, JD ’70
photo by Globe Staff Tom Landers
Arthur Montuori, BA ’46, JD ’49
Robert V. Cauchon, JD ’57
Robert V. Cauchon of Cotuit and Marshfield died on September
28. The former chief justice of the Massachusetts Land Court was 78.
Born in Warwick, Rhode Island, Cauchon graduated from Yale
University with a degree in economics. He served in the US Navy
and traveled to China after World War II; he also served in the
Korean War. He earned the rank of lieutenant commander,
according to The Boston Globe.
Cauchon was politically active and became executive director of the Democratic State
Committee. In 1962, he helped Endicott Peabody win election as governor. Peabody
named Cauchon as his statewide campaign director.
In 1965, Cauchon joined Boston’s Sullivan & Worcester, where he practiced for 21
years, specializing in real estate litigation and public utility regulation. He was active in
Marshfield town affairs, serving on the Board of Registrars and the Charter Commission.
In 1986, Governor Michael Dukakis appointed Cauchon to the Land Court, where he
served until his retirement in 1996. At the time, the Boston Globe wrote that Judge
Cauchon’s knowledge “has transformed [the] Land Court from the backwater of the
Massachusetts trial court system to the court of choice for high-profile land use cases.”
Following the death of his wife in 2000, Cauchon relocated to Cotuit, remaining active
as a mediator with REBA Dispute Resolution, a legal consultant, and an expert witness
at trials. He also served as co-counsel on certain land use cases, The Real Estate Bar
Association News reported.
He leaves a daughter, Barbara A. of Attleboro; two sons, Richard R. of Kingston and
Thomas W. of Waltham; four grandchildren; and a brother, Paul of St. Petersburg,
Florida. He was the brother of the late Herve Cauchon.
Winifred Kiernan, JD ’72
Robert A. White, Sr., JD ’72
Walter E. Steele, Sr., JD ’54
Robert P. Keough, JD ’73
Walter E. Steele, Sr., of South Dartmouth and Boston died on January 21.
The prosecutor, criminal defense attorney, and judge was 78.
John E. Nanorta, Jr., JD ’73
James A. Paisley, JD ’73
James J. Caruso, Jr., JD ’75
Robert L. Elliott, JD ’75
Robert A. N. Foote, Jr., JD ’75
Robert E. Manchester, JD ’75
Daniel Gilmore, JD ’79
Joseph D. O’Connell, JD ’79
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Florence K. Murray, LLD ’81 (Hon.)
Suzanne L. King, JD ’88
John Dones, JD ’91
Tamara A. Greelish, JD ’91
A. David Mazzone, LLD ’95 (Hon.)
David S. Connolly, JD ’02
Born in Roxbury, Steele served in the Navy as a Seabee. Upon his graduation from the
Law School, he joined Suffolk District Attorney Garrett H. Byrne as a legal aide. Steele
was named an assistant district attorney in 1957, the position he held until 1969,
when he was appointed special prosecutor for Dukes County on Martha’s Vineyard. He
was in the position for just a month before serving as special prosecutor in the case
concerning the accident on Chappaquiddick Island that led to Mary Jo Kopechne’s death.
He practiced as a criminal defense attorney until he was appointed associate justice of
Dukes County District Court in 1975. In 1980, he was named to the Superior Court.
He leaves his wife, Janet Stella Kotrofi of South Dartmouth; a daughter, Roberta J. of
Fort Lauderdale, Florida; two sons, Terrance of West Roxbury and Walter E., Jr., of South
Boston; and six grandchildren. He was the father of the late Frederick S. Steele.
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IN MEMORIAM
Suzanne L. King, JD ’88
David S. Connolly, JD ‘02
Suzanne L. King of Boston died on
November 16, 2004. The commercial
leasing attorney was 44.
David S. Connolly of Boston died in a
helicopter crash while on military duty in
Afghanistan on April 7. The Army Reserve
captain and Suffolk County assistant
district attorney was 37.
King began her career as a paralegal
at Boston’s Rubin & Rudman. Upon
graduating from the Law School’s evening
division, she continued with the firm as
an associate. In 1995, she joined the
commercial leasing practice of Goulston & Storrs, becoming a
director in 1998. According to colleagues at Goulston & Storrs,
where King practiced until her death, King represented all of the
major office landlords in Boston, drafting leases at the Prudential
Center, the Hancock Tower, and Rowes Wharf, among others. She
was known for making her clients and the opposing side laugh
during even the most difficult negotiations. In a number of
instances, those who started out across the table from her later
hired her. King was reputed to know every commercial real estate
broker east of the Mississippi, but she maintained that this was
a slight exaggeration.
King was an active member of New England Women in Real
Estate (NEWIRE), chairing the Community Involvement
Committee and serving on the Steering Committee. She was
especially proud of NEWIRE’s recent establishment of a
Centennial Scholarship Fund at Suffolk’s Sawyer School of
Management, stating, “Our mission creates equality and parity
and empowers women. The scholarship directly benefits someone
who may not have the financial resources and who comes from
a non-typical background.”
She was active with both Massachusetts Continuing Legal
Education and the Commercial Brokers Association, serving on
numerous program faculty panels, and was a judge for the
Commercial Brokers Association “Deal of the Year,” for a number
of years. King also was a volunteer for AwardsMassachusetts
Association for the Blind.
Connolly, who served in the Army Reserve’s
1173rd Transportation Battalion, was
aboard the CH-47 Chinook helicopter when
it crashed in bad weather approximately 80 miles southwest of
Kabul, The Boston Globe reported. None of the 18 people in the
aircraft survived.
Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley, JD ’83, who
hired Connolly, told the Globe upon learning of the crash, “Word
that he may have been on that helicopter has devastated our
office. He was very respected. He struck me as a young man who
wanted to make a difference, who could see the greater good.”
Connolly was a member of the Army Reserve Officers’ Training
Corp at Boston College, graduating in 1994. He entered active
duty and served with the Army Rangers. Soon after accepting an
offer to join the district attorney’s office, Connolly was sent to
Iraq. He began work as an assistant district attorney in June
2004. He was expected to return from active duty in June.
Connolly leaves his wife Debra (Toran) of Boston; his brothers
Joseph P. and his wife Jeanne of Duluth, Georgia, Gerald P.
and his wife Susan of Needham, Paul R. of Duxbury, Gregory
A. and his fiancee Jessica Mickelson of Boston; his sisters
Marguerite F. and her husband Walter Divine of Newton, and
Nancy E. Sperry and her husband James of Gloucester; and
16 nieces and nephews. His parents, Gerald F. and Marguerite
(McHugh) Connolly both died in 2003.
King leaves her husband, Steven Bang of Boston; her mother,
Joyce King of Quincy; her sister, Judi King and Judi’s husband,
Guy Sanderson of Quincy.
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IN MEMORIAM
A. David Mazzone, LLD ‘95 (Hon.)
Florence K. Murray, LLD ‘81 (Hon.)
Judge A. David Mazzone of Wakefield, who
served 26 years on the bench of the US
District Court, District of Massachusetts,
died on October 25, 2004. He was 76.
Florence Murray of Newport, Rhode Island, the first woman
appointed to the Superior and Supreme Courts of Rhode Island
died on March 27. She was 87.
Mazzone was born in Everett,
Massachusetts, and received a BA from
Harvard College in 1950 and a JD from
DePaul University College of Law in 1957.
His wide-ranging career included positions in the Army and CIA,
insurance adjusting, and as assistant US attorney under US
Attorney Arthur Garrity, who later became his colleague on the
bench and was a lifelong friend and mentor. Judge Mazzone also
practiced law privately in Boston for several years and was
appointed to the Superior Court of Massachusetts by Governor
Michael Dukakis before joining the federal bench. While a federal judge, Mazzone was appointed by President George H.W.
Bush to serve on the US Sentencing Commission.
Some of the most important environmental federal cases in history
were heard in Mazzone’s courtroom, including a lawsuit to prevent
oil and gas drilling on Georges Bank, the massive, 20-year
cleanup of Boston Harbor, and a suit to reduce overfishing in
New England. Mazzone also adjudicated the Kodak-Polaroid
patent dispute, a seminal intellectual property case.
Oliver C. Mitchell, Jr., JD ’79, chairman of Ford Motor Company’s
Dealer Policy Board, served as Mazzone’s law clerk from 1979 to
1980. Always impressed with Mazzone’s genuine and consistent
kindness, Mitchell recalled, “Judge Mazzone treasured the
opportunity to meet and spend time with all kinds of people. His
former law clerks found it amazing that he could recall the names
of people he met once and spoke with only briefly. He always
remembered little things about these people, and he always
addressed them by name. Mazzone had a peculiar sense for
fairness and equity; something about his humble roots—his
heritage—always prompted him to find a solution that treated
everyone fairly.”
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Judge Mazzone is survived by his wife of 53 years, Eleanor
Stewart Mazzone; sons Andrew, JD ’03, of Cambridge, John of
Boston, and Robert of Darien, Connecticut; daughters Margaret
of Nashville, Tennessee, Jan of Williston, Vermont, Martha of
Boston, and Carolyn of Wakefield; his sisters Maria Alimena of
Rye, New York, and Flora Joyce of Boston; and nine grandchildren.
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Murray, who enjoyed a 40-year judicial career of firsts, served as
the state’s first woman Superior Court judge for 22 years, according
to reports by Rhode Island News Channel 10 and the Associated
Press. In 1978, she became the first woman presiding judge of
that court; one year later, she was appointed the first woman on
the Supreme Court. She retired from the Supreme Court in 1996.
“Judge Murray brought down the barriers and beckoned the rest
of us to follow her,” recalled Maureen McKenna Goldberg, JD
’78, LLD ’99 (Hon.), who assumed Murray’s position on the
Supreme Court in 1997 and is now the only woman on the high
court bench.
The Providence Journal reported that Murray graduated from
Syracuse University and was the only woman in the graduating
class of 1942 at Boston University Law School. Following
graduation, she joined the Women’s Army Corps. Murray served
for six years in the state Senate, and was the only woman in the
chamber at the time. In 1990, the Newport County Courthouse
was named for Murray.
Murray’s husband, Paul F., with whom she practiced law at one
time, died in 1995. She is survived by her son, Paul M. of
Algonquin, Illinois.
Edward F. McLaughlin
Edward F. McLaughlin, Jr., of Osterville
and Jamaica Plain, died on January 21.
The former lieutenant governor was 84.
McLaughlin is the father of former
Assistant Attorney General Paul R.
McLaughlin, JD ’81, who was killed by a
gang member in 1995, and for whom the
Paul R. McLaughlin Scholarship at Suffolk
Law School is named.
McLaughlin served in the Navy during World War II in the same
PT boat squadron in the Solomon Islands as President John F.
Kennedy. After Kennedy’s election, Kennedy sponsored
McLaughlin’s appointment as an assistant US attorney in
Boston, The Boston Globe reported.
McLaughlin served on the Boston City Council from 1953 to
1961. He was lieutenant governor under John A. Volpe, from
1961 to 1963. Later, he was general counsel of the MTA (now
the MBTA), and worked in private practice until his retirement
several years ago.
He leaves his wife Elizabeth; three sons, Edward F., of Needham,
Robert D. of San Francisco, California, Richard J. of Medfield; a
daughter, Elizabeth Ann LePera of New York; six grandchildren
and a sister, Mary Palm of California. He was the father of the
late Patricia Ann McLaughlin and Paul R. McLaughlin, JD ’81.
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PROFILE IN GIVING
Giving Back with Purpose
Gift Annuity Invests in the Future of Suffolk Students
when paul j. fitzpatrick BA ’56, JD ’57 decided
to establish The Honorable Paul J. Fitzpatrick Scholarship
Fund, his goal was clear. “I wanted to help needy students
with their tuition costs, ease the financial pressure on them so
they would be able to focus on their academics and would not
be compelled to be working all the time,” he says. Judge
Fitzpatrick, no stranger to hard work, put himself through
school with a series of part-time jobs.
After graduating from Suffolk Law, Judge Fitzpatrick worked
as an associate in the Boston firm of Lee & Graham. It was
there that he discovered his love for trial work. “I worked my
way into being a trial man through the usual route—probate,
personal injury, cases of that nature,” he says. “Trial work
became my niche.”
In 1963, Judge Fitzpatrick heeded the call to public service
and became a trial attorney for the US General Service
Administration. In this capacity he represented all civilian US
government agencies, principally as users in the field of
transportation. This work necessitated frequent travel, and his
wife, Mary Collins Fitzpatrick, often joined him as he argued
cases throughout the country.
Judge Fitzpatrick enjoyed the challenge of arguing these cases.
They were crucial to the public interest, involving, as they
often did, matters of international law, maritime concern, antitrust issues, and even monetary decisions critical enough to
the economy that they were sometimes directly advanced to
the US Court of Appeals or even to the Supreme Court.
In 1972 Judge Fitzpatrick was appointed to the bench as a US
administrative law judge, an appointment based on a nationwide competitive exam. For him, this position was the logical
extension of a career devoted entirely to the interests of the
US government. In this capacity, he was required to consider
collectively all arguments presented by numerous parties with
variant interests. During his 24 years on the bench he served
with the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Federal
Maritime Commission, and, finally, with the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission.
Judge Fitzpatrick retired in 1996, having spent more than 30
years employed by the federal government. He spent the next
four years caring for his wife, whom he lost to ovarian cancer
in 2000. He presently resides near Charleston, South Carolina,
where he enjoys the benefit of the many cultural and historic
activities, as well as the nearby beaches.
In deciding to make a gift to Suffolk University Law School
for student financial aid, Judge Fitzpatrick, whose affection for
Suffolk is evident, opted to endow his scholarship through a
charitable gift annuity. He hopes his scholarship fund will
benefit future generations of Suffolk Law students. Since he
grew up in New York City, graduated from Brooklyn High
School, and attended The City College of New York, his
preference is that the fund benefit deserving students from
the New York metropolitan area.
“Gift annuities provide a win-win situation for the donors and
the Law School,” says Dean Robert H. Smith. “We are deeply
grateful to Judge Fitzpatrick for his thoughtful scholarship
support. His annuity will reach beyond his lifetime with an
endowed scholarship that will benefit deserving students. This
gift is a testament to his belief in our mission and vision.” The
Honorable Paul J. Fitzpatrick Scholarship Fund is part of the
University’s Centennial Scholarship initiative that will recognize
100 donors who create a newly endowed scholarship, or
enhance an existing one, with a gift of $50,000 or more in
honor of Suffolk’s upcoming centennial anniversary.
For information on charitable gift annuities and other gift
vehicles, please contact Charlotte W. Sobe, director of planned
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Suffolk University Class Profiles: a research guide
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Introduction
In 2006, the Moakley Archive completed a research project to find out more about
Suffolk University Law School’s earliest graduates. This guide includes information
about the classes and biographical information about a selection of graduates discovered
using sources such as Suffolk University records, U.S. Census records, and other sources
such as local newspapers. The classes covered were limited to 1909-1915 because there
weren’t adequate records for the earliest classes of 1906-1908.
Research Guide Sections
1. Early Law School Student Profiles
• Roland Edward Brown, 1909
• George Louis Bush, 1909
• Carl Collar, 1909
• George Arthur Douglas, 1909
• James Francis O’Brien, 1909
• Lewis Austin Adams, 1910
• James T. Bergen, 1910
• Ernest Palmer Bradstreet, 1910
• Emanuel Cohen, 1910
• Ole Martin Dahl, 1910
• Robert Timothy Healey, 1910
• Bernard Joseph Killion, 1910
• Charles Francis Murphy, 1910
• Harry H. Nayor Suffolk Law School 1910
• Edwin LeRoy Weiscopf, 1910
• Thaddeus Alexander Kitchener, 1913
• Louis E. Pasco, 1914
• Harry Ernest Burroughs, 1915
• Thomas Vreeland Jones, 1915
• Shichiro Hayashi, 1922
• Thomas Joseph Lane, 1925
• Joseph David Paté Sr., 1927
• Harry Hom Dow, 1929
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Early Law School Student Profiles
Roland Edward Brown, Suffolk Law School 1909
Roland Edward Brown was born August 26, 1880. 1 His mother, Margaret (b.
1857), was born in Canada, and his father, whose name is unknown, was born in
Massachusetts. 2 The 1900 census indicates that at that time, 19-year-old Roland was
living at 178 Columbia Street, Cambridge, Mass., with his 15-year-old brother, Chester
(b. 1884), his mother, and his stepfather, William Hamilton (b. 1869 in Canada), who was
a carpenter. 3 Margaret and William had been married for one year at that point. 4 The
census also indicates that Margaret had given birth to two other children in addition to
Roland and Chester, only one of whom was still living. 5 Also residing with the family
were two boarders. 6
In 1900, Roland E. Brown was serving as an apprentice in the chemical industry. 7
In 1901, he married a woman named Ethel Blanche. 8 His son, Alphonso, and daughter,
Margaret, were born less than two years apart around 1902 to 1904. 9 In December of
1906, he began the winter term at Suffolk Law School, enrolling in Torts and Criminal
Law classes. 10 In June of 1908, Gleason Archer gave him “the certificate of two years’
study” that enabled him to take the bar examination, even though he was only in his
junior year. 11 Archer indicates that Brown was “a machinist by trade,” but nonetheless in
June, 1908, became Suffolk Law School’s first student to pass the bar exam. 12 He
graduated in 1909 as one of five students in the first Suffolk Law School class. 13
Roland E. Brown’s employment history is somewhat ambiguous. He was an
apprentice in the chemical industry, and Gleason Archer writes that he was a machinist,
but the 1913 Cambridge Directory lists him as a lawyer. 14 Archer also writes in 1919
that while he did become a lawyer, Brown chose not to enter into active law practice in
1
World War I Draft Registration Card 2672/3151, September 12, 1918.
United States Census 1900, Massachusetts, Middlesex, Cambridge, Enumeration District 691, Sheet 18.
3
U.S Census 1900,Ibid.
4
U.S Census 1900, Ibid.
5
U.S Census 1900, Ibid.
6
U.S. Census 1900, Ibid.
7
U.S Census 1900, Ibid.
8
Roland Edward Brown Marriage Record, 1901, from Massachusetts Vital Records 1841-1910 Database,
accessed via the New England Historical Genealogical Society, http://www.newenglandancestors.org;
United States Census 1920, Massachusetts, Middlesex, Cambridge, Enumeration District 55, Sheet 11B;
United States Census 1930, Massachusetts, Middlesex, Cambridge, Enumeration District 9-34, Sheet 1B.
Note: Brown’s wife is listed in the 1920 census as Ethel B. Brown and in the 1930 census as E. Blanche
Brown.
9
U.S. Census 1920, Ibid.
10
Archer, Gleason L. Building a School, Boston: Gleason L. Archer, 1919, p.51.
11
Archer, Gleason L., Ibid., p.86. Note: For students entering prior to 1913, the Suffolk Law School
program consisted of three years of study, so a student’s junior year was his second or middle year.
12
Archer, Gleason L., Ibid., p.86.
13
Suffolk Law School Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p.15.
14
Cambridge Directory, 1913, p. 354.
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favor of working for the Barbour Stockwell Company of Cambridge. 15 Brown’s
profession in the 1920 census is unclear, but the place of employment appears to be
Stockwell Co. 16 Both the 1923 Cambridge Directory and the 1923 Boston Register and
Business Directory list him as a lawyer, and the 1930 census lists his place of
employment as a court. 17 While the time frames are unclear, it is evident that Brown
was in fact a lawyer and did in fact work for the Stockwell Company at some point in his
life. Beginning in at least 1913 until at least 1930, Brown lived at 10 Centre Street in
Cambridge, and in 1923 his law office was located at 40 Court Street in Boston. 18
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George Louis Bush, Suffolk Law School 1909
Very little is known about George Louis Bush. He enrolled at Suffolk Law
School during the second week of classes in the fall of 1906 and graduated in 1909 as one
of five in the school’s first graduating class. 19 In his “Sketches from Life” for a 1919
Suffolk Law School pamphlet, Gleason Archer indicates that George L. Bush at some
point relocated from the Boston area to Wisconsin to practice law. 20 George L. Bush is
listed in both the 1928 and 1936 Suffolk Law Alumni Directories, but neither directory
lists an address for him. 21
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Carl Collar, Suffolk Law School 1909
Carl Collar was born on June 4, 1885, to William (b. 1865) and Alice Collar (b.
22
1862). He was the oldest of three children in a family of two boys and one girl. 23 By
1900, the family lived on Crescent Avenue, Revere, Massachusetts. 24 The household
also included a nephew (b. 1878) and a niece (b. 1883). 25 All members of the family,
including the niece and nephew, were born in Maine. 26 In 1900, 14-year-old Carl Collar
15
Archer, Gleason L., “Sketches from Life” in Suffolk University Historical Pamphlet Series #1, 1919,
reprinted 1978 by Suffolk University Law School, p. 11.
16
U.S Census 1920, Ibid.
17
Cambridge Directory, 1923, p. 345; The Boston Register and Business Directory: 1923, Vol. 87. Boston:
Sampson and Murdock Company, 1923, p. 682; U.S Census 1930, Ibid.
18
Cambridge Directory, 1913, p.354; U.S. Census 1920, Ibid.; U.S. Census 1930, Ibid.; The Boston
Register and Business Directory: 1923, Ibid, p.682.
19
Archer, Gleason L. Building a School. Boston: Gleason L. Archer, 1919, p. 50; Suffolk Law Alumni
Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p. 15.
20
Archer, Gleason L. “Sketches from Life” in Suffolk University Historical Pamphlet Series #1, 1919,
reprinted 1978 by Suffolk University Law School, p. 11.
21
Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 1928, p. 172; Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p.
15.
22
World War I Draft Registration Card 316/A1686, September 12, 1918; United States Census 1900,
Massachusetts, Suffolk, Revere, Sheet 17A.
23
U.S census 1900, Ibid.
24
U.S census 1900, Ibid.
25
U.S census 1900, Ibid.
26
U.S census 1900, Ibid.
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was attending school while his father was employed as a carpenter and his mother was
not employed. 27
In 1904, Carl Collar’s second cousin, Gleason L. Archer, tried to convince him to
attend the Boston University College of Liberal Arts, but Collar instead began working at
a Boston steamship company whose office was located on State Street. 28 In 1906, at age
21, Collar began studying law under Gleason Archer. 29 In January on 1909, Collar, then
a senior at the Suffolk School of Law, became the second of Archer’s students to pass the
Massachusetts Bar Examination. 30 He graduated in 1909 as one of five in Suffolk School
of Law’s first graduating class. 31
By 1918, Carl Collar was living in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, with his wife, Mary
(b. 1889 or 1890), and his young son, Carl, Jr. (b. 1917). 32 The Collars evidently spent
some time in California, as Carl, Jr. was born there. 33 He was employed as a clerk by the
International Mercantile Marine Company located on Broadway in New York City. 34 By
1919, he was an accountant for the White State Line, a subsidiary of the International
Mercantile Marine Company. 35 By 1920, he and his wife and son were living in
Rutherford, New Jersey, where they lived until at least 1930. 36 He was at that time
working as a bookkeeper for a shipping company, presumably the White Star Line, where
he continued to work until at least 1928. 37 He probably continued to work there until at
least 1930, when the census lists his occupation as accountant in the shipping industry, or
possibly until at least 1936, when his business address was 1 Broadway, New York City,
a probable location of the White Star Line Office. 38
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George Arthur Douglas, Suffolk Law School 1909
George Arthur Douglas was born in 1884 in Massachusetts. 39 His mother, Susan,
moved to the United States from Ireland in 1865. 40 His father (name unknown) was also
born in Ireland. 41 George was one of seven children, but by 1910 only he and two of his
siblings were living. 42
27
U.S census 1900, Ibid.
Archer, Gleason L., Building a School, Boston: Gleason L. Archer, 1919, pp. 17, 19.
29
Archer, Gleason L., Building a School, Ibid., p. 21.
30
Archer, Gleason L., Building a School, Ibid., p. 101.
31
Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936., p. 15.
32
WWI Draft Registration Card, Ibid.; United States Census 1920, New Jersey, Bergen, Rutherford
Borough, Enumeration District 107, Sheet 10A.
33
U.S. Census 1920, Ibid.
34
WWI Draft Registration Card, Ibid.
35
Archer, Gleason L., “Sketches from Life” in Suffolk University Historical Pamphlet Series #1, 1919,
reprinted 1978 by Suffolk University Law School, p. 11.
36
U.S. Census 1920, Ibid., United States Census 1930, New Jersey, Bergen Rutherford Borough,
Enumeration District 2-218, Sheet 1A.
37
U.S. Census 1920, Ibid.; Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 1928, p. 173.
38
U.S. Census 1930, Ibid., Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p. 15.
39
United States Census 1910, Massachusetts, Suffolk, Boston, Enumeration District 1561, Sheet 16B.
40
U.S. Census 1910, Ibid.
41
U.S. Census 1910, Ibid.
42
U.S. Census 1910, Ibid.
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In 1906, George A. Douglas enrolled at Suffolk Law School, graduating in 1909
as one of five in the school’s first graduating class. 43 By 1910, 26-year-old George was
living at 14 Grant Street, Boston, Mass., with his 70-year-old widowed mother and 72year-old aunt, Mary J. Douglas. 44 He was employed as a lawyer in his own law
practice. 45 Also in 1910, he began teaching at Suffolk Law School and continued to do
so until 1934. 46 Around 1918, he married a 21-year-old woman named Norma who was
born in Massachusetts but whose mother and father were born in England and Germany,
respectively. 47 He still had his own law practice, which by at least 1923 was located at 6
Beacon Street, Room 216, Boston, Mass. 48 He and Norma lived at 1754 Col[onial?]
Road in Boston, as did Norma’s brother, Herman Hemmem, a druggist who at that time
was unemployed. 49
Around 1921, George A. Douglas’ daughter, Audrey, was born, and around 1924,
his son, George, was born. 50 By 1930, the Douglas family was living at 86 Blue Hill
Parkway in Milton, Mass. 51 Also residing with them was their 22-year-old servant, a
man whose last name was Jones and who had come to the United States from Ireland in
1927. 52 By 1936, George A. Douglas still had his own law office at 6 Beacon Street in
Boston. 53
James Francis O’Brien, Suffolk Law School 1909
James Francis O’Brien was born on January 5, 1878, in Fall River, Mass. 54 His
parents, Edward and Mary (Doyle) O’Brien, were born in Ireland and came to the United
States as children. 55 His father was employed as an overseer in the textile mills of Fall
43
Archer, Gleason L. Building a School. Boston: Gleason L. Archer, 1919, p.50; Suffolk Law Alumni
Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p.15.
44
U.S Census 1910, Ibid.
45
U.S Census 1910, Ibid.
46
Faculty Spreadsheet compiled by Kristen Bourque, Project Assistant for Suffolk University Law School
Dean’s Office.
47
United States Census 1920, Massachusetts, Suffolk, Boston, Enumeration District 287, Sheet 10; United
States Census 1930, Massachusetts, Norfolk, Milton, Enumeration District 11-62, Sheet 4A.
48
U.S. Census 1920, Ibid.; The Boston Register and Business Directory: 1923, Vol. 87. Boston: Sampson
& Murdock Company, 1923, p.684.
49
U.S Census 1920, Ibid. Note: The street name on the 1920 census appears to be Col Road, but that could
be a shortened version of Colonial Road or Columbia Road.
50
U.S. Census 1930, Ibid.
51
U.S. Census 1930, Ibid.
52
U.S Census 1930, Ibid.
53
Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p.15.
54
Hutt, Frank Walcott, ed., “James F. O’Brien,” A History of Bristol County Massachusetts, Historical and
Biographical Volume III. New York and Chicago: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1924,
p.313.
55
Hutt, Frank Walcott, Ibid.
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River. 56 He had at least two sisters and two brothers. 57 He attended both the Fall River
public schools and the parish school of Sacred Heart Church in Fall River. 58
In 1895, at the age of 17, James F. O’Brien enlisted in the Navy, serving during
the Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurrection. 59 When he was honorably
discharged from the Navy, he enrolled at Rogers and Allen Business College. 60 Prior to
enrolling at Suffolk Law School in 1906, Gleason Archer writes that O’Brien had tried to
enroll at several other law schools, but was turned away. 61 Archer decided to give him a
chance, and although O’Brien was almost forced to drop out, he ultimately graduated in
1909 as one of five members of the school’s first graduating class. 62 He was able to
finance his education by working at Suffolk Law School as a janitor, in Gleason Archer’s
office and at a restaurant. 63 After passing the bar in 1911, he opened law offices in Fall
River and New Bedford, Mass. 64
In April of 1917, James F. O’Brien voluntarily enlisted in the Navy upon the
United States’ entry into World War I. 65 He served in a variety of posts, including
gunnery instructor, battalion commander and lieutenant, before being honorably
discharged in September of 1919. 66 In 1922, he ran unsuccessfully as a Democratic
candidate for Bristol County district attorney. 67 He served as judge advocate of the
Spanish American War Veterans and was a member of many other veterans and fraternal
organizations, including the United Spanish War Veterans, American Legion and the
Fraternal Order of Eagles. 68
On July 7, 1923, James F. O’Brien suffered a stroke from which he never fully
recovered. 69 He died in 1925 at the age of 47, survived by his wife, Elizabeth V.
O’Brien, four daughters and two sons, as well as two sisters, two brothers, and his
mother. 70
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Lewis Austin Adams, Suffolk Law School 1910
56
Hutt, Frank Walcott, Ibid.
Obituary, Fall River Globe, date unknown, 1925.
58
Hutt, Frank Walcott, Ibid; Obituary, Fall River Globe, Ibid.
59
Hutt,, Frank Walcott, Ibid; Obituary, Fall River Globe, Ibid.
60
Obituary, Fall River Globe, Ibid.
61
Archer, Gleason L., “Sketches from Life” in Suffolk University Historical Pamphlet Series #1, 1919,
reprinted 1978 by Suffolk University Law School, p.10.
62
Archer, Gleason L, Ibid; Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p.15.
63
Archer, Gleason L., Ibid.
64
Obituary, Fall River Globe, Ibid.
65
Obituary, Fall River Globe, Ibid.
66
Obituary, Fall River Globe, Ibid.
67
Hutt, Frank Walcott, Ibid., Obituary, Fall River Globe, Ibid.
68
Obituary, Fall River Globe, Ibid.
69
Obituary, Fall River Globe, Ibid.
70
Obituary, Fall River Globe, Ibid.
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Lewis Austin Adams was born on November 12, 1886, in Booth Bay Harbor,
Maine to Frank and Elizabeth Adams, both also of Maine. 71 He was the oldest of five
children in a family of two sons and three daughters, although at some point prior to 1900
his mother had given birth to a child that by that year was no longer living. 72 By 1900,
the family had moved from Maine to Boston, Mass., where his father was employed as a
motorman. 73 They lived at 90 Whitfield Street. 74 At this time, 13-year-old Lewis was
attending school. 75
Around 1907, Lewis A. Adams enrolled at Suffolk Law School, graduating in
1910 as one of ten in the school’s second graduating class. 76 At this time, he was still
living with his parents and four siblings, although by 1910 the family had moved to 16
Westville Street in Boston. 77 In April of 1910 he was working as a glassworker in a shop,
but by 1917 he had his own law practice at an office on Tremont Street in Boston. 78 Also
by 1917 he had moved to 306 Washington Street in Boston, presumably with his parents
and siblings since the entire family, except his sister, Florence, was living at that address
in 1920. 79 According to his draft registration card, Lewis A. Adams was not able to join
the Armed Forces during World War I because his left leg was disabled and he was nearsighted. 80
By 1920, 33-year-old Lewis A. Adams was still single and living with his parents
and four of his siblings at 306 Washington Street, and still had his own law practice. 81
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James T. Bergen, Suffolk Law School 1910
71
World War I Draft Registration Card 1241/70, June 5, 1917; United States Census 1900, Massachusetts,
Suffolk, Boston, Enumeration District 1466, Sheet 3. Note: In the 1900 census, Lewis Adams’ mother
name is unclear, but does not appear to be Elizabeth, although the 1910 and 1920 censuses both list her
name as Elizabeth. Also, the 1900 census spells Lewis’ name as Louis, but the later censuses spell it as
Lewis.
72
United States Census 1910, Massachusetts, Suffolk, Boston, Enumeration District 1568, Sheet 8A; U.S
Census 1900, Ibid.
73
U.S Census 1900, Ibid. Note: It is possible that the family moved to Massachusetts around 1899, since
the 1910 census lists all of the children, ranging in age from 23 to 13, as being born in Maine, except 11year-old Bernice, who is listed as being born in Massachusetts. The 1900 census, however, lists daughter
Ella (Eleanor in the 1910 and 1920 censuses, b. 1888), as being born in Massachusetts, and the 1920 census
lists daughter Bernice as being born in Maine.
74
U.S. Census 1900, Ibid.
75
U.S. Census 1900, Ibid.
76
Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p.15.
77
U.S. Census 1910, Ibid.
78
U.S. Census 1910, Ibid.; WWI Draft Registration Card, Ibid.
79
WWI Draft Registration Card, Ibid.; United States Census 1920, Massachusetts, Suffolk, Boston,
Enumeration District D422, Sheet 16B.
80
WWI Draft Registration Card, Ibid.
81
U.S Census 1920, Ibid.
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James T. Bergen was born around 1884 in Massachusetts to Canadian parents. 82
His mother, Honora Bergen, was widowed by 1910. 83 By 1910, 26-year-old James was
living at 97 [Lauriat] Avenue, Boston, Mass., serving as head of a household that
included his 60-year-old mother, his 28-year-old brother, Joseph, and his 23-year-old
sister, Margaret. 84 His mother had given birth to seven children, but in 1910 only four of
them were living. 85 By April of 1910, James was employed as a letter carrier for the
United States Mail Service. 86
Later in 1910, presumably after three years of study, James T. Bergen graduated
from Suffolk Law School as one of ten in the school’s second graduating class. 87 By
1920, he had moved to Detroit, Michigan, where he lived in an apartment at 27 Palmer
Avenue West and was employed as a lawyer. 88 By this time 38-year-old James had been
married for about two years, but his wife did not live with him. 89 A man named William
J. Topley, who was evidently James’ business partner, did live with him. 90
By 1930, James T. Bergen was still employed as a lawyer in Detroit and had
bought a house at 10427 American Avenue. 91 At this time, his wife, Mildred, was living
with him, as was his 39-year-old sister-in-law, Esperance Lee, and his and Mildred’s
adopted daughter, Mary, who turned two in the summer of 1930. 92 By 1936, his law
practice was located at 709 Hammond Building in Detroit. 93
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Ernest Palmer Bradstreet Suffolk Law School 1910
Ernest Palmer Bradstreet was born in 1882 in Massachusetts. 94 His parents were
also born in Massachusetts. 95 Around 1907, at age 25, he enrolled at Suffolk Law
School. 96 Around 1908, he married a woman named Clara, who was about 23 years old
at the time. 97 One year later, his son, Ernest R. Bradstreet, was born. 98
82
United States Census 1910, Massachusetts, Suffolk, Boston, Enumeration District 1638, Sheet 9B.
U.S Census 1910, Ibid.
84
U.S Census 1910, Ibid. Note: The street name on the 1910 census is unclear, but appears to be Lauriat
Avenue. Currently no street was found in Boston with that name
85
U.S Census 1910, Ibid.
86
U.S. Census 1910, Ibid.
87
Suffolk Law School Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p.15.
88
United States Census 1920, Michigan, Wayne, Detroit, Enumeration District 81, Sheet 8A.
89
U.S Census 1920, Ibid.; United States Census 1930, Michigan, Wayne, Detroit, Enumeration District 82531, Sheet 5B.
90
U.S Census 1920, Ibid.
91
U.S. Census 1930, Ibid.
92
U.S Census 1920, Ibid.
93
Suffolk Law School Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p.15.
94
United States Census 1910, Massachusetts, Essex, Danvers, Enumeration District 119, Sheet 7A.
95
U.S Census 1910, Ibid.
96
Suffolk Law School Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p.15. Note: Ernest Bradstreet most likely
enrolled in 1907 because at that time the SLS program of studies took 3 years to complete, and he
graduated in 1910.
97
U.S Census 1910, Ibid.
98
U.S Census 1910, Ibid.
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By April of 1910, Ernest P. Bradstreet and his family were renting part of a house
at 60 North Putnam Street, Danvers, Mass. 99 The house was owned by 81-year-old
Elijah Bradstreet, who lived there with his wife, 76-year-old Ellen, and daughter, 55year-old Ella. 100 The relation between Ernest and Elijah is unclear; it is possible that
Elijah was Ernest’s father, although if that was the case, Elijah and Ellen would have
been 53 and 48
years old, respectively, when Ernest was born. 101 By this time, Ernest was self-employed
as a music teacher. 102
Later in 1910, Ernest Bradstreet graduated from Suffolk Law School as one of ten
in the school’s second graduating class. 103 By 1920, however, at age 37, he was
employed at a railroad station working with the telegraph system. 104 He was still renting
part of the house on Putnam Street, although ownership of the house had transferred to
Ella Bradstreet, most likely following the deaths of Elijah and Ellen. 105 No evidence has
been found that he practiced law.
Emanuel Cohen, Suffolk Law School 1910
Emanuel Cohen was born on May 22, 1882 in England. 106 He came to the United
States sometime between 1900 and 1907. 107 He enrolled at Suffolk Law School in 1907
and graduated in 1910 as one of ten in the school’s second graduating class. 108 He
became a naturalized United States citizen in 1911. 109 By 1918, he was living at 29 Beals
Street in Brookline, Mass., and had his own law practice located at 294 Washington
Street in Boston. 110 He was still living at that address in Brookline in 1920, when the
census indicates that he was one of two roomers living with the Abrahams family. 111 At
that time he was still practicing law. 112
99
U.S Census 1910, Ibid.
U.S Census 1910, Ibid.
101
U.S Census 1910, Ibid.
102
U.S Census 1910, Ibid.
103
Suffolk Law School Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p.15.
104
United States Census 1920, Massachusetts, Essex, Danvers, Enumeration District 29, Sheet 3A.
105
U.S Census 1920, Ibid. Note: The 1920 census lists the street name as Putnam, not North Putnam, but
the house number (60) is the same, as is the family that owned it.
106
World War I Draft Registration Card 1824/143, September 11, 1918; United States Census 1920,
Massachusetts, Norfolk, Brookline, Enumeration District 165, Sheet 7A.
107
U.S. Census 1920, Ibid. Note: The year of Cohen’s immigration is unclear on the 1920 census record,
but it appears to be 190[?], and he must have arrived prior to 1907 since that is when he enrolled at Suffolk
Law School. Also, only one 1920 census record was found for an Emanuel Cohen living in Massachusetts,
so while it has not been confirmed that this record refers to the Emanuel Cohen who attended Suffolk Law
School, that is believed to be the case, since the man listed was a lawyer. Also, the draft registration card
and 1920 census have been confirmed as for the same person, since the home addresses are the same.
108
Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p. 15.
109
U.S Census 1920, Ibid.
110
WWI Draft Registration Card, Ibid.; Boston 1918. Boston: Sampson & Murdock Company, 1918, p.
1807.
111
U.S. Census 1920, Ibid.
112
U.S. Census 1920, Ibid.
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In 1928, the Suffolk Law Alumni Directory listed Emanuel Cohen’s address as
unknown. 113 In 1930, Cohen was living at 87 Fuller Street in Brookline with his two
single sisters, Jane (32) and Hilda (28), both of whom came to the United States from
England in 1922. 114 At that time, he was working as a film salesman. 115 The 1936
Suffolk Law Alumni Address lists his address (presumably his work address) as 1397
Beacon Street in Boston. 116
Ole Martin Dahl, Suffolk Law School 1910
Ole Martin Dahl was born between 1869 and 1875 in Norway, coming to the
United States in 1890. 117 In 1905, he answered an advertisement for a law class to be
taught by Gleason Archer. 118 By this time, he was working as a house painter and
decorator, and Gleason Archer visited him at his shop in response to his inquiry about the
law class. 119 Archer writes that Ole Dahl “had ruddy cheeks and a good natured face,
altogether prepossessing except that his English was very faulty,” and that Ole was
concerned that he was too old (at least 30 years old) to be taught about law. 120 Despite
these concerns, Ole Dahl attended Archer’s first law class in October of 1905, and
enrolled at Suffolk Law School at its inception in September of 1906. 121 He graduated in
1910 as one of ten in Suffolk Law School’s second graduating class. 122
By 1920, Ole Dahl was still working as a house painter and was lodging at a
house in East Boston, along with eight other lodgers and at least one family. 123 By 1917,
he had married a woman named Margie (b.1889 or 1890) who was born in Massachusetts
113
Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 1928, p. 173.
United States Census 1930, Massachusetts, Norfolk, Brookline, Enumeration District 11-15, Sheet 9B.
Note: As with the 1920 census, only one 1930 census record was found for an Emanuel Cohen living in
Massachusetts. Although there is a slight age discrepancy between this record and the 1920 record, the two
records are believed to be for the same person, given that they both list Cohen as being born in England and
coming to the United States in 1905 (the unclear date of arrival in the 1920 census is probably 1905).
115
U.S. Census 1930, Ibid.
116
Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p. 15. Note: 1397 Beacon Street, at least today,
is in Brookline, not Boston; Beacon Street extends from Boston into Brookline, but address numbers
Boston end at 999. Also, since the type of establishment located at 1397 Beacon Street is unknown, it is
possible that it was the location of the film sales business for which Cohen was working in 1930.
117
United States Census 1920, Massachusetts, Suffolk, East Boston, Enumeration District 50, Sheet 6B;
United States Census 1930, Massachusetts, Suffolk, Boston, Enumeration District 13, Sheet 16A. Note:
There are discrepancies between the ages listed for Ole M. Dahl on the 1920 and 1930 census records, but
both records are believed to be those of the same person. The two census records both list the year of
arrival in the United States as 1890.
118
Archer, Gleason L. Building a School, Boston: Gleason L. Archer, 1919, p.20.
119
Archer, Gleason L., Ibid., p.20.
120
Archer, Gleason L., Ibid., p.20. Note: Archer’s note that Ole Dahl felt as though he might be too old to
take a law class indicates that the 1930 census, from which it can be deduced that Dahl would have been
about 35 in 1905, is probably correct, since if the 1920 census is correct, Dahl would have been about 30 in
1905, which is not an uncommon age at which to study law.
121
Archer, Gleason L., Ibid., p.20, p.48.
122
Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p.15.
123
U.S. Census 1920, Ibid.
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but whose parents were Norwegian. 124 Around 1918 his first son, Fulman, was born, and
around 1923, his second son, Earl, was born. 125 By 1930, at around 60 years old, he
owned a home in Boston where he lived with his wife, sons, and also his widowed fatherin-law, Ole Haff. 126 Ole Haff had come to the United States from Norway in 1887 and
was working for a contractor (despite being 73 years old). 127 By this time, Ole Dahl was
working as an attorney. 128 By at least 1923 and until at least 1936, his law office was
located at 73 Tremont Street in Boston. 129
Robert Timothy Healey, Suffolk Law School 1910
Robert Timothy Healey was born September 22, 1883 to Dennis (1850-1902) and
Mary Healey (1855-ca. 1919). i He was the fourth of five children in a family of three
boys and two girls. ii By 1900 the family lived at 27 Belmont Street, Somerville,
Massachusetts. Robert continued to live there until a few years after his mother’s death
around 1919. iii Dennis Healey listed his occupation as merchant in the 1900 census, but
his death record in 1902 lists him as a machinist. iv Mary A. Healey was born in Ireland
and immigrated to the U.S. in 1872 at the age of 27. v
In 1900, 15 year-old Robert T. Healey was employed as a clerk. vi Gleason Archer
indicates that he enrolled in “Archer’s Evening Law School” in the spring semester of the
1906-1907 school year. vii While he attended law school in the evenings he was employed
as a machinist at an iron foundry. viii He graduated from Suffolk Law School in 1910. ix By
1918 Healey had opened a law office, R. T. Healey, at 6 Beacon Street, Boston. x
After his mother’s death he became the head of the household in Somerville,
living with his single siblings Mary (40), Rachel (38) and Arthur (30). By 1922 Healey
married and by 1930 was widowed. He left the house in Somerville and bought a house
on Sumner Street in Newton, Massachusetts. In 1930 he lived there with his sister Mary
and his daughters Mary (7) and Alice (2). xi He maintained his law practice at 6 Beacon
Street through at least 1936. xii
Bernard Joseph Killion, Suffolk Law School 1910
Bernard Joseph Killion was born around 1885 in Massachusetts to Irish
parents. 130 He was fourth of at least eight children in a family of three girls and five
boys. 131 His three older siblings, Thomas, Mary and Margaret, were all born in Ireland
and had come to the United States in 1883. 132 It is probable that his parents had died by
124
U.S. Census 1930, Ibid.
U.S Census 1920, Ibid.
126
U.S Census 1930, Ibid.
127
U.S Census 1930, Ibid.
128
U.S Census 1930, Ibid.
129
The Boston Register and Business Directory: 1923, Vol. 87. Boston: Sampson & Murdock Company,
1923; Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p.15.
130
United States Census 1910, Massachusetts, Suffolk, Boston, Enumeration District 1553, Sheet 14B.
131
U.S Census 1910, Ibid.
132
U.S Census 1910, Ibid.
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1910, because at that point, he and his siblings all lived together, with his sister Margaret
as head of the household. 133
In 1907, Bernard Killion began attending Suffolk Law School, admitted “on trial”
by Gleason Archer because he was not well-educated or “of the intellectual type,” but
had “a fervent desire to study law.” 134 At that time, he was working for an insurance
company. 135
By April of 1910, 25-year-old Bernard Killion was still working at an insurance
company. 136 He was living at 10 Oswald Street in Boston, Mass., along with his seven
siblings, Margaret (26), who was head of the household, Thomas (30), Mary (28),
Katherine (23), John (21), James (19) and William (15). 137 All of his siblings were
employed at either a shoe factory or a grocery store, except Margaret and William, who
were unemployed. 138 Later in 1910, Killion, having proved himself in the classroom,
graduated from Suffolk Law School as one of ten in the school’s second graduating
class. 139 After graduating, he continued to work in the insurance field because he had
been promoted, but soon began operating a law office in the evenings. 140
On April 10, 1916, Bernard Killion became the first Suffolk graduate to argue a
case before the United States Supreme Court. 141 He, along with Charles Toye and Joseph
F. O’Connell (a former Massachusetts congressman who was one of the original
members of the Suffolk Law School Board of Trustees and later served as its vice
president), represented Henry C. Callaghan in his petition for a writ of certiorari to the
Superior Court of the State of Massachusetts. 142 This meant that Callaghan, after having
lost in a case in the Superior Court of Massachusetts, petitioned, with the aid of his
lawyers, for the case to be reviewed by the U.S. Supreme Court. 143 The petition was
denied. 144
Around 1918, Bernard Killion married Dorothy Agate, who had come to the
United States from England in 1891. 145 In 1919, his son, Bernard Jr., was born. 146 By
1920, the family was living at 70 Francis Street in Boston, as were Dorothy’s parents,
Adelaide and Harry Agate, both of whom had come to the United States from England in
133
U.S Census 1910, Ibid.
Archer, Gleason L., “Sketches from Life” in Suffolk University Historical Pamphlet Series #1, 1919,
reprinted 1978 by Suffolk University Law School, p. 12.
135
Archer, Gleason L., Ibid., p. 12.
136
U.S Census 1910, Ibid.
137
U.S Census 1910, Ibid.
138
U.S Census 1910, Ibid.
139
Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p. 15.
140
Archer, Gleason L., Ibid., p. 12.
141
Archer, Gleason L., Ibid., p. 12; Henry C. Callaghan, Petitioner, v. The Commonwealth of
Massachusetts, 241 U.S. 667 (1916).
142
Henry C. Callaghan, Petitioner, v. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Ibid.
143
“Certoriari,” Tech Law Journal Glossary, http://www.techlawjournal.com/glossary/legal/certiorari.htm.
144
Henry C. Callaghan, Petitioner, v. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Ibid.
145
United States Census 1930, Massachusetts, Norfolk, Brookline, Enumeration District 11-18, Sheet 12A.
146
United States Census 1920, Massachusetts, Suffolk, Boston, Enumeration District 369, Sheet 6B.
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1910. 147 At this point, Killion was practicing law full-time. 148 From at least 1923 to
1928, his law office was located at 294 Washington Street, Room 505, in Boston. 149
By 1930, Bernard Killion had bought his own home at 41 Naples Road in
Brookline, Mass., and had four more children, Harry (9 in 1930), Richard (1) and Barbara
(an infant). 150 Dorothy Killion’s parents were still living with the family. 151 The Killion
family was evidently somewhat wealthy, as their home was valued at $20,000 (their
neighbors’ homes were valued at $14,000 and $15,000), and they had live-in servants,
three young women from Ireland named Julia, Kathleen and Barbara. 152 By 1936,
Killion’s law practice was located at 11 Beacon Street in Boston. 153
In 1944, Bernard Killion returned to Suffolk University Law School, this time as
a member of the Board of Trustees, on which he served as Vice Chairman from 1950 to
1953. 154 Also in 1950, he was appointed a life member of the Board of Trustees. 155
During his tenure on the Board of Trustees, and perhaps beginning sooner, he was
a member of the law firm of Killion, Connolly and Williams.156 After the 1961-1962
academic year, Killion is no longer listed in the SULS Catalogue as a member of the
Board of Trustees, so it is probable that he died in 1961 or 1962. 157
Charles Francis Murphy, Suffolk Law School 1910
Very little is known about Charles Francis Murphy. He enrolled at Suffolk Law
School probably in 1907 and graduated in 1910 as one of ten in the school’s second
graduating class. 158 Because Charles Francis Murphy was such a common name in the
Boston area during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and there are no Suffolk Law
School records on him, it is difficult to positively identify a Charles Francis Murphy from
a census record or draft registration card as the one who graduated from Suffolk in 1910.
One draft registration card was found for a Charles Francis Murphy who was born
January 23, 1877, lived in Boston, and was an attorney. 159 No accompanying census
147
U.S Census 1920, Ibid.
U.S Census 1920, Ibid.
149
The Boston Register and Business Directory: 1923, Vol. 87. Boston: Sampson & Murdock Company,
1923, p. 687; Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 1928, p.184.
150
U.S Census 1930, Ibid.
151
U.S. Census 1930, Ibid.
152
U.S. Census 1930, Ibid.
153
Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p. 15.
154
Suffolk University Law School Catalogue, 1944, p. 7; Suffolk University Law School Catalogues, 19461955, various pages. Note: Suffolk Law School became Suffolk University Law School when the
University was chartered in 1937. Dates of Killion’s membership on the Board of Trustees were also taken
from the Microsoft Excel Trustees Spreadsheet created by Susan F. Archdeacon in the Suffolk University
Law School Dean’s Office.
155
Suffolk University Law School Catalogue, 1950, p. 7.
156
Suffolk University Law School Catalogues, 1946-1962, various pages.
157
Suffolk University Law School Catalogues, 1960-1967, various pages.
158
Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p. 15.
159
World War I Draft Registration Card 2156/2296, September 12, 1918.
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record was found. Charles Francis Murphy is listed in both the 1928 and 1936 Suffolk
Law Alumni Directories, but neither directory lists an address for him. 160
Harry H. Nayor, Suffolk Law School 1910
Harry H. Nayor enrolled at Suffolk Law School presumably in 1907 and
graduated in 1910 as one of ten in the school’s second graduating class. 161 By 1918, he
had a law practice at 53 State Street, Room 426, Boston, Mass., where it was located until
at least 1936. 162 By 1924, he was also a registered Justice of the Peace and was living in
Brookline, Mass. 163 By 1944, he was still living in Brookline, and his address was listed
in the Brookline Directory as 25 Thatcher Street. 164
Edwin LeRoy Weiscopf, Suffolk Law School 1910
Edwin LeRoy Weiscopf was born in 1884 in Massachusetts to Augustus and
Fannie Weiscopf. 165 He attended Suffolk Law School, graduating in 1910 as one of ten
in the school’s second graduating class. 166 In 1910, 26-year-old Edwin lived at 4 Enfield
Street in Boston, Mass., with his father (48), mother (48), younger brother (14), younger
sister (12) and single aunt (55). 167 The family also employed a maid named Lizzie
(45). 168 At this time, Edwin was working as a salesman in his father’s china shop. 169
By 1920, Edwin Weiscopf had married a woman named Minnie, whose parents
were German, and had two young daughters, Louise (4 ½ in 1920) and Jeanne (2 ½ in
1920). 170 The family was living at 3 Dwight Street Extension, Brookline, Mass. 171 In
1920, Edwin was still working as a salesman, although the industry he was employed in
is unclear. 172 By at least 1924, he was selling hotel and restaurant supplies from a
business, presumably his own, located at 5 Knapp Street in Boston. 173 Also by 1924, he
160
Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 1928, p. 190; Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p.
15.
161
Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p. 15.
162
Boston 1918. Boston: Sampson & Murdock Company, 1918, p. 1812; Suffolk Law Alumni Directory,
30th Anniversary, 1936, p. 15.
163
The Boston Directory for the Year Commencing August 1, 1924. Boston: Sampson & Murdock
Company, 1924, pp. 109 and 937.
164
Brookline City Directory. 1944, p. 451.
165
United States Census 1910, Massachusetts, Suffolk, Boston, Enumeration District 1603, Sheet 15B.
Note: Both the 1910 and 1920 censuses list Edwin Weiscopf’s father’s birthplace as New Hampshire, but
the 1910 census lists his mother’s birthplace as Michigan and the 1920 census lists it as Illinois.
166
Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p. 15.
167
U.S Census 1910, Ibid.
168
U.S. Census 1910, Ibid. Note: Enfield Street is located in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston.
169
U.S Census 1910, Ibid.
170
United States Census 1920, Massachusetts, Norfolk, Brookline, Enumeration District 162, Sheet 1B.
171
U.S. Census 1920, Ibid.
172
U.S. Census 1920, Ibid.
173
The Boston Directory for the Year Commencing August 1, 1924. Boston: Sampson & Murdock Co.,
1924, p. 1462.
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and his family had moved to 18 Denton Terrace in the Roslindale neighborhood of
Boston. 174 He operated his hotel and restaurant supply business until at least 1936. 175
While no evidence has been found that Edwin Weiscopf practiced law, he is listed in the
1924 Boston Directory as both a Justice of the Peace and a Notary Public. 176
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Thaddeus Alexander Kitchener, Suffolk Law School 1913
Thaddeus Alexander Kitchener, class of 1913, is believed to be the first black
graduate of Suffolk Law School. 177 He was born March 3, 1884 in Kingston, Jamaica to
Robert Kitchener and Evelina Brown. 178 He graduated from Wolmers High School in
Jamaica. 179 He was a resident of 93 Kendall Street, Roxbury, Massachusetts by March
12, 1908, when he married Mary E. Smith of Annapolis, Maryland. 180 In 1909 he applied
for admission to Suffolk Law School and was accepted by Gleason L. Archer on August
8. 181 At the time of his admittance to Suffolk, Mr. Kitchener was employed as a janitor at
Simmons College, 300 The Fenway, Boston. 182
Mr. Kitchener graduated from Suffolk Law School in 1913. 183 His World War I
Draft Registration card indicates that he continued to be employed as a janitor at
Simmons College as late as 1918 and lived at 38 Seattle Street in Boston. 184
Louis E. Pasco, Suffolk Law School 1914
Louis E. Pasco was born on February 17, 1878, in Baltimore, Maryland. 185 His
father, whose name is unknown, was from Mexico, and his mother, Elizabeth (b. 1856),
174
The Boston Directory…1924, Ibid, p. 1271.
Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p. 15.
176
The Boston Directory…1924, Ibid., pp. 110 and 1505.
177
Marriage Record vol. 581, page 55, Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910, from original records
held by the Massachusetts Archives. Online database: NewEnglandAncestors.org, New England Historic
Genealogical Society, 2004. World War I Draft Registration Card 4041/A4647, September 12, 1918. Note:
Kitchener is listed as “colored” in his marriage record and as “negro” on his World War I Draft
Registration card.
178
Marriage Record, ibid. Suffolk School of Law Application for Admission, July 5, 1909, SLS
Registrations 1908-1913, application number 36. Note: His Suffolk admission application gives his birth
date as March 3, 1884.
179
Suffolk School of Law Application for Admission, Ibid.
180
Marriage Record, Ibid.
181
Suffolk School of Law Application for Admission, Ibid.
182
Suffolk School of Law Application for Admission, Ibid.
183
Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p.15.
184
WWI Draft Registration Card, Ibid.
185
Suffolk School of Law Application for Admission, September 26, 1910, Suffolk Law School
Registrations 1908-1913, Application 27.
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was born in Virginia. 186 He had two step-siblings. 187 He attended grammar and high
school in Baltimore, but left school without graduating at the age of 14 to go to work. 188
He attended evening high school for six years at some point prior to 1910. 189
By 1900, 22-year-old Louis Pasco was living at 7 Walnut Street in Brookline,
Mass., with his mother, stepfather, James Matthews (b. 1858), grandmother, Eliza Diggs
(his mother’s mother, b. 1835), step-sister, Consuela (b. 1886), and step-brother, James
(b. 1897). 190 At this time, he was working at a bank. 191 In 1901, he married a woman
from South Carolina named Bertha. 192 In 1910, he lived at 2 Vila Street in Boston,
Mass., with his wife and four children, Elizabeth (7), Bertha (6), Alice (4) and Louis (an
infant). 193 He was still working at a bank, specifically the National Shawmut Bank on
Water Street in Boston, as a statement clerk. 194
In September of 1910, Louis Pasco applied and was accepted to Suffolk Law
School. 195 Pasco, whose mother was black and father was Mexican, graduated from
Suffolk Law School in 1914 as one of the first graduates of both African and Hispanic
descent. 196 After graduating from law school, Pasco continued to work as a clerk at the
National Shawmut Bank until at least 1918. 197
In 1920, 42-year-old Louis Pasco and his family were still living on Vila Street in
Boston. 198 By this time he had a fifth child, a son named Wendell who was born
probably in 1917. 199 At this time Pasco was still employed as a bank clerk, probably at
the National Shawmut Bank, although the 1920 census does not list a specific bank. 200
No evidence has been found that he practiced law.
Harry Ernest Burroughs, Suffolk Law School 1915
186
United States Census 1900, Massachusetts, Norfolk, Brookline, Enumeration District 1023, Sheet 16.
Note: The 1900 and 1910 censuses lists Pasco’s father’s place of birth as Mexico, but the 1920 census lists
it as Maryland.
187
U.S Census 1900, Ibid.
188
Suffolk School of Law Application for Admission, Ibid.
189
Suffolk School of Law Application for Admission, Ibid.
190
U.S Census 1900, Ibid.
191
U.S Census 1900, Ibid.
192
United States Census 1910, Massachusetts, Suffolk, Boston, Enumeration District 1539, Sheet 3B.
193
U.S. Census 1910, Ibid.
194
U.S. Census 1910, Ibid.; Suffolk School of Law Application for Admission, Ibid.; World War I Draft
Registration Card 1189/1349, September 12, 1918.
195
Suffolk School of Law Application for Admission, Ibid.
196
Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p. 16. Note: The 1900 census lists Pasco as
black, the 1910 census lists him as mulatto, and the 1920 census lists him as white.
197
WWI Draft Registration Card, Ibid.
198
United States Census 1920, Massachusetts, Suffolk, Boston, Enumeration District 369, Sheet 11A.
199
U.S. Census 1920, Ibid.
200
U.S. Census 1920, Ibid.
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Harry Ernest Burroughs was born on April 15, 1890, in Volenia, Russia. 201 He
came to the United States in 1903 and began working as a newsboy in Boston. 202 In
1911, around age 21, he enrolled at Suffolk Law School, graduating four years later in
1915. 203 He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1913. 204 By 1917, he was living at 722
Commonwealth Avenue and had his own law practice. 205 He served in World War I,
then returned to his law practice. 206 By at least 1923, his office was located at 18
Tremont Street, where it remained until at least 1936. 207 In the 1924 Boston business
directory, he is listed as a Justice of the Peace. 208
In 1927, Harry Burroughs established the Burroughs Newsboys Foundation to
give newsboys between the ages of 12 and 17 the opportunity to learn, socialize and
develop leadership and other skills. 209 The Foundation also provided college
scholarships. 210 A newsboy himself as an adolescent, Burroughs felt compelled to
provide “wholesome adult guidance” to young boys who often had to provide for
themselves their families by working in the adult world, thus missing out on some of their
childhood. 211
In 1935, Burroughs, by then a very successful lawyer, bought a summer camp in
Poland, Maine, called Camp Maqua and devoted it to his Newsboys Foundation. 212 The
camp opened in 1936 under the new name of “The Agassiz Village of the Burroughs
Newsboys Foundation” after Alexander Agassiz, the son of naturalist Louis Agassiz and
father of Maximilian Agassiz, who financed the camp. 213 The camp was open to
Burroughs Newsboys Foundation members, as well as “any other boy age 6-17 who was
part of a trade group.” 214 In only its fifth summer, in 1940, Agassiz Village housed one
thousand campers. 215 Though it has experienced some changes, the camp still operates
201
World War I Draft Registration Card 1494/567, January 5, 1917.
United States Census 1920, Massachusetts, Suffolk, Boston, Enumeration District 5, Sheet 21B;
“Suffolk University to Dedicate Nathan R. Miller Residence Hall,” Suffolk University Press Release,
September 27, 2005, http://www.suffolk.edu/opa/news/nathanmiller.html. Note: The 1920 census indicates
that Burroughs came to the U.S. in 1903, but his obituary says that he came in 1904.
203
Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p. 16. Note: Burroughs’ admissions application
is missing from the 1908-1913 Law School Registrations volume.
204
U.S. Census 1920, Ibid.
205
WWI Draft Card, Ibid.
206
Obituary, New York Times, December 19, 1946, p. 29.
207
The Boston Register and Business Directory: 1923. Boston: Sampson & Murdock Co., 1923, p. 683;
Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p. 16.
208
The Boston Directory for the Year Commencing August 1, 1924. Boston: Sampson & Murdock Co.,
1924, p. 107.
209
Obituary, Ibid.; “Suffolk University to Dedicate Nathan R. Miller Residence Hall,” Ibid.
210
Obituary, Ibid.
211
Obituary, Ibid.
212
“Year by Year History of Agassiz Village.” Welcome to Agassiz Village,
http://www.agassizvillage.org/h/history.asp.
213
“Year by Year History of Agassiz Village,” Ibid.
214
“Year by Year History of Agassiz Village,” Ibid.
215
“Big Newsboy Camp Hails Benefactors,” New York Times, August 24, 1940, p. 11.
202
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today as Agassiz Village, Founded by Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. Burroughs, and caters to
both boys and girls of diverse backgrounds. 216
In Boston, the Burroughs Newsboys Foundation was located at 10 Somerset
Street, which is now the site a Suffolk University dormitory. 217 This dormitory, which
opened in the fall of 2005, was dedicated as the Nathan R. Miller Residence Hall, named
after the founder of Nathan R. Miller Properties, Ltd. of Boston 218 In addition to being a
prominent Boston real estate developer and donating $2 million to Suffolk University,
Nathan Miller is also a former Burroughs Newsboy and was one of the first Agassiz
Village campers. 219 The Burroughs Newsboys Foundation is commemorated by an
exhibit in the lobby of the Miller Residence Hall. 220
In addition to running the Burroughs Newsboys Foundation and Agassiz Village,
Harry Burroughs was also an author. His book Boys in Men’s Shoes was published in
1944 and is both an account of his life and a social commentary on child workers. 221
Burroughs efforts to improve the chances of success for young working boys did not go
unrecognized by his alma mater; Suffolk University granted him an honorary degree of
Doctor of Human Letters sometime between 1937 and 1946. 222
In December of 1946, Harry Burroughs died at the age of 56. 223 At that time, he
was living in Brookline, Mass. 224 He was survived by his wife, Hannah, two sons, Harry
E. Jr. and Warren H., and a daughter, Jean. 225 Warren Burroughs is currently the
Honorary Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Aggasiz Village. 226 The Burroughs
Newsboys Foundation lasted only five more years after Burroughs death, closing in
1951. 227
Thomas Vreeland Jones, Suffolk Law School 1915
Thomas Vreeland Jones was born May 7, 1874, to Nichols (b. around 1853) and
Harriet Jones (b. around 1855) in Paterson, New Jersey. 228 He was the second of five
216
“Year by Year History of Agassiz Village,” Ibid.
“Suffolk University to Dedicate Nathan R. Miller Residence Hall,” Ibid.
218
“Suffolk University to Dedicate Nathan R. Miller Residence Hall,” Ibid.
219
“Suffolk University to Dedicate Nathan R. Miller Residence Hall,” Ibid.
220
“Suffolk University to Dedicate Nathan R. Miller Residence Hall,” Ibid.
221
Van Vechten, C.C., Review of Boy’s in Men’s Shoes: A World of Working Children by Harry
Burroughs, from The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 50, No. 6, May 1945, p. 562, accessed via
JSTOR online database, http://www.jstor.org
222
Obituary, Ibid. Note: It has been assumed that Burroughs received the honorary degree between 1937
and 1946 because Suffolk University was not incorporated until 1937, and Burroughs died in 1946.
223
Obituary, Ibid.
224
Obituary, Ibid.
225
Obituary, Ibid.
226
“Year by Year History of Agassiz Village,” Ibid.
227
“Year by Year History of Agassiz Village,” Ibid.
228
World War I Draft Registration Card 2503/1646, September 12, 1918; United States Census 1880, New
Jersey, Passaic, Paterson, Enumeration District 154, Sheet 6; Suffolk School of Law Application for
217
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children in a family of three boys and two girls. 229 By 1880 the family lived at 75 Bridge
Street in Paterson. 230 In 1880, Nichols Jones was employed as a coachman, while Harriet
Jones was a homemaker. 231
Prior to the age of 15, Thomas V. Jones attended grammar school in Paterson. 232
On June 3, 1896, he married a woman named Caroline (b. 1874 or 1985), who was also
from New Jersey, and the two then moved to Cambridge, Mass. 233 He got a job as a
superintendent of the Second Society of Universalists office building at 28 School Street,
Boston, Mass. 234 On March 29, 1897, his son, John Wesley Jones, was born, and on
November 3, 1905, his daughter, Lois Mailou Jones, was born. 235 By 1910, he was still
working at the Second Society of Universalists office building (where he also lived with
his family) as superintendent. 236 His wife worked from home as a milliner. 237
At some point, Thomas V. Jones attended the Y.M.C.A. preparatory school in
Boston, leaving the school at age 35. 238 In September of 1911, he enrolled in the evening
division at Suffolk School of Law. 239 He received his degree in 1915. 240 His daughter
indicates that he entered the real estate field after graduating, but she also indicates that
he was a superintendent for thirty years (until the late 1920s), so it is possible that he
worked in real estate, possibly real estate law, on the side. 241 His draft registration card
from 1918 lists his occupation as janitor for the Second Society of Universalists. 242
Admission, September 29, 1911, SLS Registrations 1908-1913, no application number. Note: Jones’ draft
registration card lists his date of birth as May 7, 1874, but a biography written by his daughter, Lois Mailou
Jones Pierre-Noel, for a Thomas Vreeland Jones Scholarship fund pamphlet lists it as April 7, 1874.
229
U.S Census 1880, Ibid.
U.S. Census 1880, Ibid.
231
U.S Census 1880, Ibid.
232
Suffolk School of Law Application for Admission, Ibid. Note: Jones indicates that he attended grammar
school in both Paterson, NJ, and Boston, MA, but he didn’t move to Massachusetts until after he was
married in 1896, so it is unclear to what school he is referring.
233
Pierre-Noel, Lois Mailou Jones, “Thomas Vreeland Jones,” from the Thomas Vreeland Jones
Scholarship Fund pamphlet, Suffolk University, n.d.; United States Census 1910, Massachusetts, Suffolk,
Boston, Enumeration District 1350, Sheet 1B
234
Pierre-Noel, Lois Mailou Jones, Ibid.
235
Pierre-Noel, Lois Mailou Jones, Ibid.
236
Pierre-Noel, Lois Mailou Jones, Ibid., Note: The terms superintendent and janitor were probably used
interchangeably because Lois Mailou Jones Pierre-Noel describes her father as superintendent, but the 1910
census and Thomas V. Jones’ WWI draft registration list his occupation as janitor.
237
U.S. Census 1910, Ibid.
238
Suffolk School of Law Application for Admission, Ibid. Note: It is unclear why he was attending the
school so late in his life.
239
Suffolk School of Law Application for Admission, Ibid.
240
Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p.16.
241 241
Pierre-Noel, Lois Mailou Jones, Ibid
242
Pierre-Noel, Lois Mailou Jones, Ibid., WWI Draft Registration Card, Ibid.
230
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Thomas V. Jones died on December 7, 1934. 243 Several decades after his death,
his family, friends and the Black American Law Students Association at Suffolk
University Law School established the Thomas Vreeland Jones Scholarship Fund at
Suffolk Law to provide financial assistant to minority law students. 244
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243
244
Pierre-Noel, Lois Mailou Jones, Ibid.
Thomas Vreeland Jones Scholarship Fund pamphlet, Suffolk University, n.d.,
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Shichiro Hayashi, Suffolk Law School 1922
Shichiro Hayashi was born on August 5, in either 1877 or 1879, in Mibu,
245
Japan.
He attended grammar school, then went on to high school in Utsunomiya,
about sixty miles from Tokyo, Japan. 246 He left school at age 20 with hopes of going
abroad. 247 At one point he studied law in [Yoimon], Japan. 248
By September of 1918, Shichiro Hayashi was living at 26 Arlington Street,
Cambridge, Mass., and was employed as a cook. 249 On September 12, 1918, he applied
and was accepted to Suffolk Law School. 250 He graduated from Suffolk Law School in
1922. 251 By 1936, he was still living at 26 Arlington Street in Cambridge. 252
By 1942, Shichiro Hayashi had moved to New York City, where he was living on
East 71st Street with his wife, Christine. 253 At this time, he was unemployed, probably
retired. 254 He eventually moved to Cherokee and/or Gracie, New York. 255 He died in
New York in September of 1968. 256
Thomas Joseph Lane, Suffolk Law School 1925
Thomas Joseph Lane was born on July 6, 1898, in Lawrence, Mass., to Patrick
and Mary Lane, both of Ireland. 257 By 1900, he was second youngest in a family of three
sons and one daughter. 258 His mother had given birth to seven children, but he and his
brothers, Patrick and John, and his sister, Nellie, were the only ones still living at this
time. 259 Patrick Lane was employed as a teamster. 260 The family lived at 92 Abbott
Street in Cambridge. 261
245
Suffolk School of Law Application for Admission, September 12, 1918, SLS Registrations 1918-1919,
no application number; Shichiro Hayashi, Social Security Death Record, September 1968, accessed via
http://www.familysearch.org; World War II Draft Registration Card 1385, 1942. Note: Shichiro Hayashi
wrote on his SLS admission application that he was born in 1879, but his Social Security death record and
his WWII draft card indicates that he was born in 1877.
246
Suffolk School of Law Application for Admission, Ibid.
247
Suffolk School of Law Application for Admission, Ibid.
248
Suffolk School of Law Application for Admission, Ibid.
249
Suffolk School of Law Application for Admission, Ibid.
250
Suffolk School of Law Application for Admission, Ibid.
251
Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p. 23.
252
Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p. 23.
253
World War II Draft Registration Card 1283, 1942.
254
WWII Draft Card, Ibid.
255
Social Security Death Record, Ibid.
256
Shichiro Hayashi, Social Security Death Record, Ibid.
257
Suffolk School of Law Application for Admission, September 19, 1921, SLS Registrations 1921-1922,
no application number; United States Census 1900, Massachusetts, Essex, Lawrence, Enumeration District
353, Sheet 4.
258
U.S Census 1900, Ibid.
259
U.S Census 1900, Ibid.
260
U.S Census 1900, Ibid.
261
U.S. Census 1900, Ibid.
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Thomas J. Lane attended Packard Grammar School in Lawrence and graduated
from Lawrence High School in 1916. 262 By 1918, he was employed as a retail clerk on
Essex Street in Lawrence. 263 He continued working as a retail clerk until at least 1921,
when he applied and was accepted to Suffolk Law School. 264 He graduated from Suffolk
Law School in 1925. 265
Soon after graduating from Suffolk Law School, Thomas J. Lane began a private
law practice in Lawrence, and in 1927, he was elected as a Democrat to the
Massachusetts House of Representatives. 266 By 1930, he was still living at 92 Abbott
Street in Lawrence, but now he was living with just his father and his brother, Thomas
(both his mother and Thomas’s wife had died by that year). 267 Sometime after 1930, he
married a woman named Jane (maiden name Murphy). 268 He served in the state House of
Representatives until 1937, and then served in the state Senate from 1939 to 1941. 269 He
was elected to the United States Congress in 1941 in a special election after the death
Congressman Lawrence J. Connery of Lynn. 270 He was re-elected to the next ten
Congresses, but was not re-elected to the Eighty-eighth Congress of 1962. 271 In 1956, he
was indicted for failing to pay taxes and served four months in Danbury Prison in
Connecticut. 272
After losing re-election to Congress, Thomas J. Lane continued to practice law
and served on the Massachusetts Governor’s Council from 1965 to 1976. 273 He was
active in the American Legion and an ardent supporter of veterans’ rights and benefits. 274
He died on June 14, 1994, in Lawrence and is buried at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in
North Andover, Mass. 275
Joseph David Paté, Sr., Suffolk Law School 1927
Biography written by: Catherine M. Pate (granddaughter)
Born: September 1, 1900 – Died: June 14, 1981
“Joe” was born in Somerville, Massachusetts. He graduated from Boston College
High School in 1917 where he was a member of the debating society. He then went on to
Boston College and graduated in 1921 with a Bachelor of Arts degree and honorable
262
Suffolk School of Law Application for Admission, Ibid.
World War I Draft Registration Card 464/1458, September 12, 1918.
264
Suffolk School of Law Application for Admission, Ibid.
265
Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p.29.
266
Thomas J. Lane Biography, Biographical Dictionary of the United States Congress,
http://bioguide.congress.gov; Obituary, Boston Globe, June 16, 1994, p.16.
267
United States Census 1930, Massachusetts, Essex, Lawrence, Enumeration District 5-130, Sheet 25A.
268
Obituary, Boston Globe, Ibid.
269
Obituary, Boston Globe, Ibid.
270
Obituary, Boston Globe, Ibid.
271
Thomas J. Lane Biography, Ibid.
272
Obituary, Boston Globe, Ibid.
273
Obituary, Boston Globe, Ibid.
274
Obituary, Boston Herald, June 16, 1994, p.76.
275
Obituary, Boston Globe, Ibid.
263
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mentions in Astronomy and Geology. He studied law at Suffolk Law School, received his
degree in 1927, and passed the bar on his first try.
All through his high school and college days he was involved in the theater, either
as an actor, producer, or manager. He worked as a councilor and drama coach in the
summer at Granite Lake Boys camp in NH. He went on to manage a theater in the Boston
area.
He was a member of temporary reserves in the Coast Guard, and played trombone
in the Army band entertaining troops during World War I.
He practiced law during the Great Depression, but not many people could afford a
lawyer. He sold telephone advertising for a while to make ends meet. In the 1930s, he
had two five and dime stores, one in Orient Heights, and one in Teele Square called the
Paty Needle Company. He ran a side wholesale business importing sewing needles from
Germany (which was started by his father, Bernard A. Paty) until events of World War II
ended trade with Germany and the business collapsed. Starting in the early 1940s, he
worked 27 years for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. Later, he was a realestate developer in Maine.
Joe enjoyed painting and developed a special style that involved painting with oils
on wood panels. His favorite subjects were ships and scenes he imagined from American
colonial days.
In 1926, Joe married Mary Beatrice White, (teacher, 1917 graduate of Lesley
Normal School, now Lesley University), and during the great economic Depression and
after, ably and lovingly supported his wife and five children.
From information in the family archives and from memories of his son, J. David Paté, Jr.
Harry Hom Dow Suffolk Law School 1929
Harry Hom Dow was born on March 13, 1904, in Hudson, Mass., to Hom Soon
and Alice Dow, both Chinese immigrants. 276 He was the oldest of six children in a
family of three sons and three daughters. 277 After Harry was born, he and has parents
relocated from Hudson to Boston, where Hom Soon Dow opened a laundry business, the
H.S. Dow Laundry Company, that became quite successful. 278 Harry attended the
Dwight Grammar School, presumably in Boston, for eight years. 279
In 1916, Hom Soon Dow passed away, leaving management of the laundry, which
had begun to suffer in the face of rising competition, to his wife. 280 Although Harry was
still in school at the time, he helped his mother, who had no business experience, take
over the laundry, move it to a new location (70 West Dedham Street in Boston) and make
276
Suffolk Law School Application for Admission, September 9, 1925, Suffolk Law School Registrations
1925-1926, A-L, no application number; “Chinese Mother Wins Big Battle,” [Boston Globe], October 6,
1929. Note: It is believed, but has not been confirmed, that the article about Harry Dow’s mother and the
family’s laundry business appeared in the Boston Globe; it could have appeared in another local paper.
277
United States Census 1920, Massachusetts, Suffolk, Boston, Enumeration District 171, Sheet [?]A.
278
“Chinese Mother Wins Big Battle,” Ibid.
279
SLS Application for Admission, Ibid.
280
“Chinese Mother Wins Big Battle,” Ibid.
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it thrive. 281 He worked at the laundry for several years, then began working in the
insurance business, all while still in school.282 He took one course (mechanical drawing)
during the summer of 1918 at Lincoln Preparatory School, formerly Northeastern
Preparatory School, on Huntington Avenue in Boston, then attended Boston English High
School from September of 1918 to March of 1921. 283
By 1920, 15-year-old Harry Dow, his mother, and his siblings, Nellie (14),
Howard (12), Nettie (8), Hamilton (6) and Nora (4), were living at 371 Shawmut Avenue
in Boston. 284 A 1929 newspaper article about the H.S. Dow Laundry Company states
that Harry continued to work in the insurance business after leaving high school, but by
1925, he had returned to his family’s laundry. 285
In 1925, Harry Dow enrolled at Suffolk Law School. 286 On his admission
application, he listed as one of his references Joseph F. O’Connell, a Boston lawyer and
former United States congressman who served as on the Suffolk Law School Board of
Trustees from its inception and as its Vice President from 1919 to 1936. 287 By this time,
Harry had moved to another house on Shawmut Avenue, number 385, with his mother
and three of his siblings. 288 He began working for the United States Immigration and
Naturalization Services in 1928. 289 He graduated from Suffolk Law School in 1929 and
that same year became the first Chinese American to be admitted to the bar in
Massachusetts. 290 By 1930, he was still living at 385 Shawmut Avenue. 291 The 1930
census states that he was a lawyer at that time, probably for the U.S. Immigration and
Naturalization Services. 292 Also, the 1936 Suffolk Law Alumni Directory lists his
address as 124 West 72nd Street, New York City, but it is unclear whether this was a
home or business address. 293 Nonetheless, by 1948, Harry Dow had a private law
practice, dealing specifically with immigration law, with offices in Boston and New York
City. 294
281
“Chinese Mother Wins Big Battle,” Ibid.
“Chinese Mother Wins Big Battle,” Ibid.
283
SLS Application for Admission, Ibid, Appendices, Transcripts from Lincoln Preparatory School and
Boston English High School.
284
U.S. Census 1920, Ibid.
285
“Chinese Mother Wins Big Battle,” Ibid.; SLS Application for Admission, Ibid.
286
SLS Application for Admission, Ibid.
287
SLS Application for Admission, Ibid.; “O’Connell, Joseph Francis,” from the Biographical Directory of
the United States Congress, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=O000026. Note:
Various Suffolk Law School catalogues and directories were consulted to determine O’Connell’s years of
service on the SLS Board of Trustees.
288
SLS Application for Admission, Ibid.; United States Census 1930, Massachusetts, Suffolk, Boston,
Enumeration District 13-198, Sheet 1A.
289
Obituary, Boston Globe, January 24, 1985.
290
Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p. 43; Obituary, Ibid.
291
U.S. Census 1930, Ibid.
292
U.S. Census 1930, Ibid.; Obituary, Ibid.; Dow, Frederick H. “Harry H. Dow, Esq.” Harry H. Dow
Memorial Legal Assistance Fund Nineteenth Year Annual Report: 2003-2004, p. 8.
293
Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, Ibid.
294
Obituary, Ibid.; Dow, Frederick H., Ibid.
282
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Harry Dow retired in 1963 and spent the next twenty years doing volunteer work
in Boston, serving as a legal adviser for many organizations that were dedicated to
serving the city’s less privileged citizens. 295 He was particularly concerned with issues
facing Boston’s Chinatown neighborhood and his home neighborhood of the South
End. 296 He served on the boards of many organizations, including Boston Legal
Services, the South End Health Center, South End Neighborhood Action Program, Inc.
and Central Boston Elder Services, Inc. and advised groups including the Chinese
Consolidated Benevolent Association. 297
Harry Dow also served in World War II as a captain in the Army Intelligence
Corps and in the Korean War. 298
Harry Dow died in January of 1985 after being hit by a truck on Boylston Street
in Boston. 299 He was survived by his second wife, Rita (Lee), four sons, Frederick H.,
Alexander H., Roderick H. and William H., one daughter, Mu Ying Dow, and six
grandchildren. 300 William and Mu Ying Dow are children by his first marriage. 301
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i
World War I Draft Registration Card 3347/1164, September 20, 1918; United States Census 1900,
Massachusetts, Middlesex, Somerville, Enumeration District 950, Sheet 140A; United States Census 1910,
Massachusetts, Middlesex, Somerville, Enumeration District 1010, Sheet 178A. Note: The 1900 census
appears to erroneously reports his birth year as 1874.
ii
U.S. Census 1900, Ibid.
iii
U.S. Census 1900, Ibid; U.S. Census 1910, Ibid. United States Census 1920, Massachusetts, Middlesex,
Somerville, Enumeration District 440, Sheet 18B; United States Census 1930, Massachusetts, Middlesex,
Newton, Enumeration District 9-388, Sheet 1B.
iv
U.S. Census 1900, Ibid. Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910 From original records held by the
Massachusetts Archives. Online database: NewEnglandAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical
Society, 2004. Note: Dennis Healey is reported as born in Massachusetts in the 1900 and 1910 censuses,
but his death record and the 1920 and 1930 censuses list the Healey children’s father as born in Ireland
(1920) and Irish Free State (1930).
v
U.S. Census 1900, Ibid. Note: Healey’s World War I Draft Registration Card lists her name as Mary M.
Healey.
vi
U.S. Census 1900, Ibid.
vii
Archer, Gleason L. Building a School. Boston: Gleason L. Archer, 1919, p. 52.
viii
U.S. Census 1910, Ibid.
ix
Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p. 15.
x
WWI Draft Registration Card, Ibid.; The Boston Register and Business Directory: 1923. Boston, MA:
Sampson & Murdock Company, 1923, p. 686; Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936,
p.15.
xi
U.S. Census 1930, Ibid. Note: The Newton house’s value is listed as $8,000 in the 1930 Census.
xii
Suffolk Law Alumni Directory, 30th Anniversary, 1936, p. 15.
295
Obituary, Ibid.
Obituary, Ibid.
297
Obituary, Ibid.
298
Obituary, Ibid.
299
Obituary, Ibid.
300
Obituary, Ibid.
301
Obituary, Ibid.
296
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What in the (Cyber) World is Bitcoin?
Student Contributor, Rachel Seed
As law students, we work long, hard, stressful
hours towards careers we hope will one day allow
us to find financial stability -- or perhaps more.
At the same time, it’s frustrating, for example, to
learn about a 22 year old person who is already
living a cushy lifestyle. “From what?” you ask.
Bitcoins. After meeting one of these fortunate
souls, I had to wonder: (1) what exactly is a bitcoin, (2) why are they making so much money,
and (3) what’s the catch? For anyone unaware or
curious about this currency phenomena, here is
your cheat sheet.
What exactly is a Bitcoin?
According to a recent CNN Money article, bitcoin is a currency that was created in 2009 by an
unknown person using the alias Satoshi Nakomoto. Transactions are made without banks and
are largely unregulated. Thus, users can buy and
sell anonymously. Combined with being relatively
easy and cheap to use, bitcoins are attractive for
international transactions.
Bitcoin is also used as an investment, like
the stock market. The value of it increases and
decreases relatively by substantial amounts. For
example, in 2017, the price of one bitcoin skyrocketed into thousands of US dollars. According
to Bitcoin’s latest charts, one bitcoin is now worth
approximately $10,191.00 U.S. dollars. However,
buyer beware: this amount is subject to change
day to day.
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Rule 33: Interrogatories To Parties
Paralegal By Day,
Law Student By Night
Professor Gerald. J. Clarke Retires
A Two-For-One-Special:
The JD-MBA Program
Gherardo Astaldi,
2018 Boston Marathon runner
Letter From The Editor
Off The Record:
A Suffolk Law Movie Review
State Of The Union: Budget’s,
Ballots, and Firearms
Generation Z: A Much-Needed Kick
In America’s Pants?
Diversity Jurisdiction:
What Are Black People Like?
Civil Action# 2018-01-21 |
Suffolk Law v. Sunday River
Sherpardize This
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“Bitcoin” See, CBS News, Money Watch December 7, 2017
How can a bitcoin be acquired?
There are two main ways: buying on an exchange platform, or, through “mining.” An exchange platform is essentially an online store
where you can buy or sell bitcoins with different
currencies. Some commonly used exchange
platforms include Coinbase, Bitstamp, and Bitfinex. However, buyer beware: there are security
concerns with these websites. According to an
August 2016 Fortune article, $72 million U.S.
dollars were stolen from Bitfinex in Hong Kong.
The other way to acquire bitcoins is through
“mining.” With this method, people compete
to mine bitcoins by using computers to solve
extremely complex math puzzles. (The Economist, January 2015) As a result of solving these
puzzles, bitcoins are created. However, the competition has changed: miners have moved on from
independently mining. Now, most miners work
together through “pools” which share computer
power and rewards. According to CNN Money, a
winner is rewarded with 12.5 bitcoins roughly
every 10 minutes.
A bitcoins wallet via a phone app. See, Google Play
How is Bitcoin criminally use?
Prospects and users alike may be particularly
drawn to Bitcoin because of its anonymity. Although transactions are recorded on a public
log, the names of buyers and sellers are never revealed. Essentially, transactions cannot be traced
to any specific individual. Thus, bitcoins have
inevitably become a currency of choice for drug
transactions and other illegal activities. Some of
the illegal crimes with which bitcoins have been
used include: money laundering, drug trafficking, public corruption, hacking, fraud, identity
theft, and tax refund fraud. Forbes writer Jason
Bloomberg expressed that “criminal enterprise is
largely responsible for the value of Bitcoin.” (December 2017)To make matters more complicated,
technological advancers work for both sides. As
law enforcement gets better at identifying types
of criminal behavior, criminals are also getting
better at evading detection. For example, according to James Bloomberg, bitcoins are not entirely
anonymous, which can create an opportunity
for law enforcement. (Forbes, December 2017)
However, criminals have responded by creating
“altcoins,” which are currencies that use “’Zeroproof technology’”. Essentially, this technology
removes any identifying information from a block
chain’s leger.
Will there be any regulation?
Bitcoin has skyrocketed into an incredible
value. Inevitably, regulating it has become a topic
of discussion. Some countries, such as Japan,
China, and Australia, have begun considering
regulations; governments are concerned about
the lack of taxation and control. There is “significant price manipulation, fraud and theft of
Bitcoin going today.” (Forbes, January 2018)
Many users are gambling with money they
can’t afford or do not actually have. Users can
purchase bitcoins by taking advances on their
credit cards. As a result, Bitcoin’s value spikes
and decreases. Many people attribute this to the
lack of (and need for) regulation. For example, the
U.S. dollar, which is regulated in part by the U.S.
Treasury and Federal Reserve, moves in relation
to national and foreign markets. In comparison,
Bitcoin’s value can, and does, change daily, which
is risky and unsustainable. As a consequence,
Bitcoin users are likely to become subject to price
manipulation and theft; as a result, users are
exposed to large-scale hacks, a crash in value,
and even a currency crash altogether.
Bitcoin USD Price Chart. See, Daily Express, November 9, 2017
A bitcoin mining computer. See, CNBC, January 12, 2018
Once you acquire a bitcoin, it is stored in a
“digital wallet”. A digital wallet exits either in
the cloud, or on a personal computer. (You can
acquire a free digital wallet through bitcoins
website.) With this digital wallet, users can send
or receive bitcoins i.e. to pay for goods. However,
just like losing your physical wallet, you can accidentally delete your digital wallet -- or viruses
could destroy them!
Bitcoin users are experiencing a vastly unpredictable and arguably unprecedented high.
Many users are hopeful, and encouraged by how
long the currency has already lasted and by how
much money can be made if bought at the right
time. Others, like chief strategist Jim Rickards of
Meraglim (a financial analytics firm) views Bitcoin
as certainly fatal. In a recent Fortune article,
he states: “I view Bitcoin as a Neanderthal, an
evolutionary dead end.” (For more information,
contact Rachel at rseed@suffolk.edu)
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Rule 33: Interrogatories To Parties
State Your Name, Bar Prep Tips, And
General Advice
Alumni Contributor, Sam Matson
“Over a hundred years, Suffolk University Law School began preparing students for the
Massachusetts Bar Exam.”
Hi everyone, I’m one of the
latest graduates of Suffolk Law.
I graduated last year from the
night program. Before I begin,
I have to say: I really enjoyed
my time here, and wish you all
luck. Now, it’s time to address
the elephant in the room: the
bar.
Tip #6: start with a review
course. I started studying Barbri’s review course in February.
Pay for it, get your login, get the
books, etc. (I used Barbri, but I
know people who used Kaplan
or Themis and did fine.) I looked
at the study calendar on the
Barbri website and familiarized myself with what Barbri
expected. Do exactly what it
says -- then supplement it with
practice problems. (I’ll explain
that in a moment).
Plan your summer. The real
intense study window for the
Bar is basically 60 straight
days. Do it -- except for July
Fourth. Even Barbri gave everyone July Fourth off. Go to the
beach. Have fun. Stay out too
late. Work hard for that day off.
Tip #5: use flashcards. I started reading the Critical Pass
flashcards when I commuted
to work in February. Every
day I would do one of the eight
core subjects on the Multistate
Exam (day 1). When the 60 days
of hell finally arrived, I would do
at least one subject, maybe two
-- before I would do anything
else that Barbri planned for
the day.
Tip #4: buckle up. Start studying! My first day was the Monday after the Super Bowl. Barbri
has an “Early Start” program.
Do it: set a date, and begin.
When I sat down months later
for day one of the 60 days, I felt
like I already knew a lot. Also,
establishing my routine definitely helped, and also eased
my anxiety.
Tip #3: do more practice problems than what’s expected.
At some point in your review
course, you’ll have to review a
subject and do practice problems each day. Follow those
instructions, and then supplement with more practice problems. In July, when I was about
thirty days out, I would do practice problems for several hours,
in addition to what the review
course recommended.
Tip #2: build your endurance.
Timing is the entire ballgame;
you don’t want to burn out.
Create a plan. It does not even
have to be a good plan -- just
have one. As you get closer, you
should get a sense of how long it
takes to do each problem. Time
yourself while you study! You
have approximately 1 minute
and 45 seconds per question on
the Multistate. You don’t want
to experience the time crunch
on test day.
To the 1Ls: I know it is a long
way off, but take a look at the
subjects that are on the Bar.
Especially the essays on Day 2
for i.e. Massachusetts. Save a
few of those Bar related courses
for your last year. I went super extreme with this idea -- I
didn’t take Evidence until my
last year. My plan was: if I took
Massachusetts specific courses
my last semester they would
be fresh in my mind. However,
just to be clear: do not study
for the Bar. At all. I know it’s
law school, but don’t be that
much of a nerd. Have fun, focus
on learning first year courses,
compete in the 1L cup, and try
to enjoy being in college again –
network!To the 2Ls: it’s a tough
year. Continue to focus on getting good grades and doing well
in your internship or clinic.
Don’t stress about the Bar!
You can start freaking out next
year.
To the 3/4Ls: Start spending
time during your last semester
with focusing on the Bar. I decided to split my time 50/50.
Since I went nights, I had to
study on Saturdays. Instead
of spending the day studying
for my current classes, I spent
half the time working on the
Early Start course and reviewing flashcards. I spent the other
half working on my current
courses.
Tip #1: keep your routine.
Find a rhythm and keep that
rhythm going all the way into
the exam. The day before the
Bar, I studied the exact same
way I studied for those 60 days.
I remember Barbi recommended
to completely take the day off.
I didn’t do that because I had
a rhythm. I went to the library
(like I usually did), sat where I
usually sat, and studied. I didn’t
study super hard and didn’t get
stressed – but, I studied. Keeping your routine includes sleep!
That day, I didn’t study super
hard. Instead, I left early, got
my favorite dinner, and went
to bed. When I walked into the
exam, I felt like it was just any
other day. (For more information, contact Sam at smatson@
suffolk.edu)
MARCH 2018
Paralegal By Day,
Law Student By Night
Student Contributor, Jessica Bailot
Now that our first semester of
law school is complete, the feelings and emotions are too great
to put into concrete words. That
first semester has tested our
faith in our abilities, and, most
definitely, our patience. We are
still being asked questions like:
“Why would you do this to yourself?” and, “How do you manage
to fit everything in in one day?”
While I don’t think that there’ll
be answers to those questions
that satisfy everyone, the fact of
the matter is: we chose to enter
law school because we wanted
to learn the law.
Now, I know that answer
seems fairly obvious. But learning the law is a unique process
that everyone goes through differently. For example, I know
some people that review flash
cards every day, others by reading hornbooks, starting outlines
early, reviewing lecture tapes
– the list goes on. Personally,
working at a law firm during
the day and attending class
at night has helped me out a
lot. With Civil Procedure, for
example, I find that I have a lot
less questions to ask about why
we are filing a case a certain way
or giving notice to only certain
people. As we process all this
information, our perspectives
of the world are being altered
-- whether we know it or not!
One of the first differences
I noticed is that I approach a
situation by thinking of the pros
and cons. When I was young, I
wanted to believe that the world
was black and white. It was so
easy to be optimistic and positive! While I like to think that
I’m still that same younger
person, the reality is: the world
is starting to look a lot greyer.
The various shades of grey are
becoming more pronounced:
what I learn in the classroom
also applies to what goes on at
the firm. I’ve noticed that discussing a client’s options with
both attorneys and paralegals
is like a game of chess: we’re
predicting each move ahead of
time so that the client’s best
interest is put forward.
At school, each case we read
is like an entire game already
played out. Our job is to understand, “What happened?”
Sometimes we’re left unsettled
because, by the end of each
analysis, our once steadfast
positions slowly deteriorate with
each opposing view. Law school
and the firm combined have
drilled in me to look for the “bigger picture”, which is something
every professor and attorney
always mentions.
Another major challenge has
been effective time management. After reading cases about
parties making careless mistakes, I try to approach each
task at work with the mentality that it should be done right
the first time. Sometimes, this
means taking extra time and effort to proofread a draft for the
fifth time, instead of completing
everything I have on my desk for
the day. I also tend to make sure
that I don’t bring homework
to work with me. Separating
school from my career forces
me to focus on each task at
hand with my undivided attention. With the time I have left, I
spend it on other activities, like
Netflix and yoga. This allocation
of time helps me focus on the
details of a big project, draw
comparisons between topics in
class and situations at work,
and not become overwhelmed
with multi-tasking.
I’ve also started to take into
consideration that not every
detail is equally important. In
class, our professors assist us
by distinguishing which facts
in a case need attention and
which facts need to be ignored.
This fundamental skill has carried over into both my work and
personal life. For example, when
I’m given an emergency task at
work, I re-organize my list of
projects for the day -- instead
of worrying about how I’ll get
everything done by 5 pm. I also
try to anticipate each and every
issue in a case so that I’ll only
have to speak with the attorney
once -- instead of a handful of
times. In addition, I don’t allow
comments and criticisms to
bother me anymore. Instead, I
stop to consider the source and
the reason behind what that
person said. There are simply
not enough hours in my day
to waste time and energy. The
bottom line? Keep moving.
Studying the law, in my opinion, is more than just earning
a degree. With the time and
effort we all contribute into
this transformative process, it
really is a lifestyle choice. (For
more information, contact Jess
at jbailot@suffolk.edu)
Professor
Gerald J. Clarke
Professor Gerald J. Clarke
began teaching at Suffolk
in 1973. He was known for
his lectures in Professional
Responsibilities, Constitutional Law, and Federal
Courts. In December, 2017,
Professor Clarke retired
from his tenure. On behalf
of Suffolk: thank you for
joining the Suffolk community! We wish you and
your family the best. Once
a Ram, always a Ram!
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A Two-For-One-Special:
The JD-MBA
Program
Student Contributor, Richard Tannenbaum, MS
This opportunity has given
me a unique perspective of the
law’s influence on business.
I’m learning how business
people respond to challenges
and examine issues, and how
a lawyer examines those same
issues. There is more overlap
than contrast; the law adds
significant understanding to the
business person’s pure profit
motive. In essence, one person
looks for profit, while the other
person looks for liability. However, both of these viewpoints
share one thing in common:
the uncertainty of new business
opportunities.
I’ll take this overlap a step
further. Law is the blueprint
and framework for the operating environment in which a
company exists. Investors, as
a rule, do not invest in illegal
enterprises: there is too much
risk. Likewise, lawyers, like
investors, are concerned about
managing liability (the legal
word for the risk of responsibility). This liability is connected
to what corporate types try to
manage, what investors often
fear might reduce their return
on investments, and what can
potentially consume the investment entirely. Risk and
reward are inexorably linked.
Lawyers play a role in informing businesspeople about the
risks associated with operating
a business. That’s the simplest
way to understand the connection between law and business.
The MBD-JD Program has
been a challenge. In addition
to studying, I also run my
own business called MedBlob.
Since I started studying, I
decided to simplify my life by
focusing on building MedBlob
and completing my schoolwork.
Everything else I do is just a
bonus. I am used to working
long days and nights. The gym
keeps me sane.
When I first started MedBlob,
I was working for a mid-market
life science investment bank as
an Analyst. I decided to quit
to pursue my own business
venture. I knew I was ready to
jump-in and commit full-time,
so-to-speak. Basically, I cofounded MedBlob in 2015, had
it on the back burner while I
started school in 2016, and quit
my Analyst position in January
of this year because the pot was
starting to boil over.
It took time to lay the foundational research to start MedBlob. I started my career in
clinical research and found
that researchers had a problem. They often spent 95% of
their time trying to gather data
into an excel sheet. Whatever
little time left was spent writing
their manuscript for a journal
publication. I saw something
wrong about this. During the
same time, I recognized that
I had trouble managing my
medical records, especially my
immunizations. I realized these
two problems were related and
used the idea of solving these
two problems to create my company. The idea was to create
a cloud-based military-grade-
encrypted unified patient health
record. Providers and patients
can use the best information
in their health management,
and researchers can also have
access to the best information
to solve the complex health
challenges.
Currently, we have got a couple things on the horizon. We’re
working on developing our minimum viable product, getting our
new vendors contract negotiated, and securing intellectual
property. We’re also building
our team by recruiting from the
local area and universities. Just
recently, we went to the Harvard
Start-up Career Fair and had
a lot of interest from students,
ranging from potential internships to clinical advisory board
members. I’m always looking
to network with new people. I
think our cause resonates with
just about everyone, because
disease affects us all.
Looking back, I’m not surprised to see where I am now.
My first love was the law. I
come from an entrepreneurial
background; it’s is in my blood.
I’m passionate about improving
the healthcare system, and in
turn, the services my business
offers. I’m also excited to start
advocating for my business
once I graduate law school.
Companies like mine are sued
frequently because there are a
number of entrenched interests
in healthcare. Essentially, these
interests want to maintain their
market positions and dominance. I’m excited to advocate
for my business’s mission: to
fight for patient’s rights and to
improve population health. The
tide is turning on the ‘old guard’
in healthcare, and I think that’s
clear with big players like CVS,
JP Morgan, and Amazon, entering the marketplace.
One of our challenges is patient engagement. This means
getting people interested in
managing their health information. The issue isn’t an IT (information technology) challenge
because the tech is already
there. The real issue is: how
do we get patients on-board?
I’ve been thinking about that
question for a while, and I think
may have an answer, which is
why I’m pursuing a patent. Stay
tuned!
My advice to the entrepreneurial readers: don’t walk-run. Most likely, you are young,
full of energy, and just working
on your law or business degree.
The time is now to take risks,
work longer and harder than
everyone else. Do not take the
safe path; you will never have
less responsibility than you do
now. It only gets harder to start
a new venture. Taking a job may
mean that you limit your risk
now, but you also limit your
gains. The learning that you get
from finding your own way is
immeasurable, and the experience is rewarding. It’s what this
country was founded on: the
American dream. Get a goal, get
a plan, and go for it! (For more
information, contact Richard at RT@
medblob.com)
Gherardo Astaldi, a second year law student, will be running in the 2018 Boston
Marathon. This year, he is running in memory of Officer Sean A. Collier. Officer
Collier was killed while on duty during the aftermath of the Boston Marathon
Bombing in 2013.
(To learn how to donate, contact Gherardo at gmastaldi@suffolk.edu)
Letter From The Editor
Editor-In-Chief, Alexander Sneirson
This edition has been an adventure.
Patience has been the real theme.
Developing an edition takes time, whether
it’s recruiting advertisers or writers. One
of the toughest lessons I’ve learned is that
people will run at the speed they want to
run. My job is to lead.
I’m extremely thankful for the people that
committed to this edition. To the writers,
readers, and financial supporters, I have
a lot of faith that this paper will get back
on its feet.
I’ve proposed to Alumni Engagement that
our paper be delivered to Alumni law firms
in exchange for a small donations, which
can help cover our bottom-line costs. In
addition, I’m experimenting with new legaltitled columns like “Shepardize This” -- that
gives organization and club presidents an
opportunity to advertise their club --, “Off
The Record”, and “A Civil Action”. It is my
hope that these ideas, among others, will
attract the support that Dicta needs to truly
be The Suffolk Law Paper.
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State Of The Union
Ballots, Budgets, and Firearms
SBA President, Michael McKeown
Editor-In-Chief, Alexander Sneirson
Did you do anything special over winter break? “I got the opportunity
to relax and spend time with friends and family that I don’t normally
get to see! I also definitely spent plenty of time catching up on some
neglected video games.”
You were disappointed with voter turnout in our last election. Any
thoughts about returning to a paper-ballot election? “Yes, we have
considered that! Considering how important an issue like cost of attendance is, we hoped to see more voter turnout. We have discussed
internally whether it may be more effective (or possible) to conduct
written ballots at the beginning or end of your class similar to class
evaluations. We plan to reach out to Dean Cove to discuss it further.”
The Appropriations Committee has a limited budget right now. So,
for example, when Appropriations gives money to a club, and the
club doesn’t spend it, does the SBA have a right to get the money
back? “Short answer: yes. Our fiscal year runs from October 1st to
September 30th. So if there are any unspent club funds by September
30th, the SBA does take them back. We take those surplus funds and
re-appropriate them using our regular process with the Appropriations
Committee. However, any funds that are in club accounts as a result
of donations or fundraising will stay in the account after the September
30th turnover. To clarify: the SBA does not have a right to unilaterally
take funds from a club unless a club deeply abuses its funds. In that
case, we may freeze the account.”
Has the SBA ever considered an initiative to shorten this window?
“As far as I understand, we have not tried such an initiative and I
wouldn’t support one. I believe one academic year is a reasonable
amount of time to give Clubs the opportunity to spend their funding.
Our Club Presidents serve a one year term. Sometimes things happen,
events get canceled or postponed, and organizations need some flexibility to accomplish their goals over the course of a year.”
That sounds like a lot of flexibility. Would the Board of Governors
(BOG) consider prohibiting clubs from spending money on, for example, General Body meetings? “Well, as President, I don’t necessary
speak for the BOG (our legislative body) directly but instead speak for
the SBA and student body as a whole. I am unsure whether the BOG
would be interested in prohibiting those types of expenditures. Those
policy decisions can be made by the Executive Board alone or by the
BOG. Speaking for the Executive Board, we would not be in favor of
prohibiting spending money on general body meetings or other small
get togethers. For some clubs, this is the sole opportunity to get their
members together and attract new members. I think the ability to meet
and interact is integral for an organization’s success. Pizza and drinks
help make that happen!”
How has your relationship as President been with the BOG? “Our
relationship has been wonderful this year. Our Section Representatives, Bar Association Liaisons, and Executive Committees have all
been working together extremely well. In my experience in previous
years, the BOG has been somewhat adversarial amongst itself and
the Executive but I’m happy to say that is not the case this year. As a
matter of fact, in January we completed the first SBA Retreat to bring
the members of the SBA even closer together and isolate the issues that
the SBA will address this semester.”
At the last BOG meeting, the BOG voted in favor of arming the
campus Police Department. Did Suffolk ask the BOG to vote on this
issue? “I’m glad you asked about that. To clarify, the BOG did take the
official position that the SBA, as representative of the student body,
believes SUPD (not to be confused with our security guards) should be
armed, provided there is routine adequate firearm training and retraining. Please remember: this is an opinion, not a decision. I will submit
a letter to President Kelly and the chairmen of the Board of Trustees
recommending they should arm SUPD. Now, to answer your question:
Suffolk did not directly ask us. According to the Chief of Police, Chip
Coletta, this has been a campus-wide issue and discussion, on and
off, since he had arrived on campus well over 5 years ago. Throughout
his tenure, the Chief has advocated in favor of carrying a firearm. Currently, the undergraduate student government is deciding their recommendation. To remain timely, I felt it was best for Suffolk Law students
to also discuss the issue as well.
How much weight does this vote have? “I think it should have
significant weight. Suffolk University may be very cautious of arming
SUPD without the support of all the stakeholders on campus. This is an
issue that speaks to safety; it transcends the classroom. That includes
students, faculty, and staff. As students, we make up the vast majority of those stakeholders – we are well over 6,500 students. As the
largest stakeholder-group on campus, and the University’s customers,
I believe our opinion will absolutely hold significant weight with the
Board of Trustees and the Administration.”
Generation Z: A Much-Needed
Kick in America’s Pants?
To be honest, I didn’t even know what they were calling the generation that follows Millennials until the mass shooting at Marjory
Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, that left 17
dead. This was the 34th mass shooting in the United States since the
beginning of the new year — a number that’s hard to digest. Most
of Generation Z have used the internet for the majority of their lives
and are more than comfortable when it comes to navigating technology and social media. This is something that’s typically been viewed
in a negative light when discussing today’s teens, but it has been
absolutely crucial in this group’s ability to successfully and quickly
organize themselves in the days after the shooting. The Generation
Z’ers from Parkland have made their disdain with the current state of
gun laws heard loud and clear, and most recently they have managed
to discredit the alt-right agitators that have accused the survivors of
being “crisis actors.” Unfortunately, the same thing happened with
Sandy Hook – victims’ parents were accused of being actors and the
whole tragedy was deemed by some extremists as some leftist hoax.
Admittedly, it’s quite early to jump to conclusions, and we as a nation have an extremely short attention span with practically everything.
Even so, I can’t help but feel a twinge of hope that this could be the
turning of the tides. If Millennials and Generation Z are able to join
forces and work together, change could be around the corner. However,
this is only possible if we remember to VOTE this November. As our
44th President Barack Obama tweeted out on February 22nd, “Young
people have helped lead all our great movements. How inspiring to
see it again in so many smart, fearless students standing up for their
right to be safe; marching and organizing to remake the world as it
should be. We’ve been waiting for you. And we’ve got your backs.”
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Off The Record ...
A Suffolk Law Movie Review
Student Contributor, Jamie Nathan
On February 18, I saw
“Black Panther” at Regal
Cinemas. Black Panther
is different from most
Marvel films. It’s more
serious, has more drama,
and (in many ways) is its
own movie. The technology, the action scenes,
and the dialogue are all
great. However, in some
parts the CG (computer
graphics) stood out for
the wrong reasons. The
CG occasionally looked
fake with some scenes
near the end, but it didn’t
really detract from the
film as a whole.
I don’t think this film
will be the most loved
But, I do think it’ll be one
of the most important.
It helps set the stage for
“Avengers: Infinity War”.
Lots of characters (aside
from T’Challa) are now
coming forward to join
the overarching storyline. Overall, it’s a great movie.
A nearly all African-American
cast was risky. In the past
there has been the mantra
that movies led by minority actors and actresses will not be
as financially viable as those
with caucasian leads. Yet,
it paid off incredibly well
here. Chadwick Boseman
as King T’Challa/Black
Panther was fantastic; he
really knew how to carry
a scene. He perfectly embodied a young king who is
stuck between the old ways
and the new. This struggle
with deciding what the
right thing to do made him
relatable. In his last few films,
Boseman has really shown
his acting capabilities: Jackie
Robinson in 42, and Justice
Thurgood Marshall in Marshall.
Boseman is quickly becoming
a great actor in his own right.
Let’s not forget the female
actresses. To name a few: Danai
Gurira was tough, occasionally
funny, but a fiercely loyal warrior. Lupita Nyong’o as Nakia
was different here than she
was in the comics. In the comics, she was a villain obsessed
with King T’Challa who went
out of her way to try to kill any
potential lovers of the King out
of jealousy. However, in the
film, she is a spy for Wakanda.
Essentially, she believes that
Wakanda should be doing more
to help others outside of their
kingdom.
As for the antagonists,
Andy Serkis is quite funny and crazy. He played
the first of two villains
in this movie, which is
perfect for an actor like
him. Consider his last
few roles: Caesar from the
reboot series of “Planet
of the Apes”, Supreme
Leader Snoke in “Star
Wars Episodes VII” and
“VIII”, and especially Gollum/Smeagol in “Lord of
the Rings”. Serkis has a
wild and exciting personality that can easily carry
a scene. Plus, the fact
that he has already had
a role in “Avengers: Age
of Ultron” adds another
dimension to his role in
the story.
Michael B. Jordan was
not a one-dimensional
villain like I expected.
He had a story that built
throughout the movie; I
think it’s a wonderful backstory
to see. In my mind, a well-written antagonist is a character
who believes that what they’re
doing is right -- like the protagonist -- except the manner in how
they put that plan into action
puts them on the wrong side.
Finally, the story itself
is quite simple yet complex. Easy to understand,
but difficult to answer. To
not spoil too much from
the movie, it does contain
political commentary. But,
in this case, the debate is
between: should a country
with many resources step
forward and become more
involved in helping the less fortunate? Or should they instead
be focused on protecting their
people and preserving their way
of life? “Black Panther” does not
ask for a simple answer. Indeed,
this movie would be foolish to
try to attempt one. However it
does make you think, which
is why it’s definitely worth
watching. To top it all off: The
soundtrack is very solid! There
are two post credits scenes at
the end, so don’t leave right
away! (For more information
contact Jamie at jnathan2@
suffolk.edu)
In my mind,
a well-written antagonist
is a character who
believes that what
they’re doing is right.
Letitia Wright as Shuri arguably ‘stole the show’ a few
times as T’Challa’s sister. In
many ways she plays the genius who provides T’Challa with
the latest gadgets for his missions. Finally, Angela Bassett
as T’Challa’s mother handled
her role well as his guardian
and supporter throughout the
film.Even Martin Freeman as
Everett Ross gets his time in the
limelight as well. He played his
role as the CIA agent who gets
caught between his partnership
with T’Challa and his duty to
the United States.
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Diversity Jurisdiction ....
Civil Action# 2018-01-21
Suffolk Law v. Sunday River
What are Black People like?
Student Contributor, Prince Sefa-Boakye
“Why you White Men have
so much cargo, and we New
Guineans have so little?”
(Jared Diamond, quoting a New
Guinean named Yali)
This question explains
everything. It explains why I
created my start-up company.
It explains why “Race does
matter.” At first, I didn’t believe
Race mattered. But once I
traveled the world and opened
my eyes to the harsh realities
of it, I immediately changed the
way I think.
The Western world gives little
credence to Race. I learned
about someone in the Eastern
World, however, that gave Race
all the credence it deserves: a
dark-skinned male named Yali.
On the shores of New Guinea,
Yali met a fair-skinned male
named Jared Diamond. Yali
asked him: “Why you White Men
have so much cargo, and we
New Guineans have so little?”
With this question, Yali achieved
something that no dark-skinned
male could ever do: force a fairskinned Western-educated male
to listen.
In late 2008 at San Diego
State University, I saw a movie
called “Guns, Germs, and Steel.”
It tells the story of sociologist
Jared Diamond and his quest to
answer Yali’s blunt question. In
his quest, Diamond discovered
that the reason why “White
Men Have So Much Cargo” is
because of “Guns, Germs, and
Steel”, which later became the
title of his book.
In the end, what did this do
for Yali? Did it change Yali’s
reality that “White Men” have
everything and New Guineans
(or dark-skinned people) have
nothing? Or did he utilize that
information to work his way
up ‘the ladder’ in New Guinea?
Unfortunately, we do not know.
However, what we do know is
this: Diamond found the answer
to Yali’s question.
After several years of Western
education, I’m still left with
Yali’s question: “Why do White
Men [still] have so much cargo?”
On the one hand, I think that
in the Western world, Race
doesn’t matter. Instead, what
matters is determination and
skills coupled with the will to
succeed. This philosophy has
been my lullaby since I grew
up as a child in a small White
American neighborhood. On the
other hand, Race does matter
because when I was a child, I
never saw Race -- but my friends
found ways to remind me.
Although the Western philosophy has helped me succeed, it
didn’t prepare me for the pain.
I’ve felt traumatized from being
told I was “White” -- for thinking
and speaking intelligently! And I
would only be “black”, in the eyes
of my white peers, if I “dumbed
myself down”.
Today, we still have this
tension between dark and
fair skinned people. But this
time, it’s not about cargo. It’s
about money! How can we say,
“Race Doesn’t Matter”, when
the average bank accounts of
dark and fair-skinned people
are not equal or competitive? Are
“white dollars” more valuable or
competitive than “black dollars”?
This depressing competition
hurts the efforts of dark skinned
people to attain the American
dream. To the fair-skinned
people that disagree: I challenge
you to stay and compete in the
Middle East and experience how
your fair skin may negatively
affect your income.
A country that systemically
does not value skin color
will always be affected by
Race. There will always be
Racial divides. And as such,
competition between people of
different skin colors will never
be genuine.
So, what do we do? What
should we do for people like Yali?
How can we fix the problem,
whether here in America or
around the world? The answer
is simple: create a new reality.
My mission is simple: educate
the world on the African
Diaspora and promote Black
entrepreneurship. Through
entrepreneurship, intelligence,
and education, I promote
the reality that “Blacks and
Africans are rich!” The Western
world has promoted its beliefs
that Blacks are: criminals, poor,
drugged, uneducated, vulgar,
hypersexual, pants sagging
below the waist -- you name
it! But, if we all work towards
changing these beliefs, by
educating the world about
Blacks, then Blacks will have
the “cargo” they need to trade.
The world would be genuinely
interested in investing its
currencies in Black culture,
Black “minds”, and Black
resources.
I strongly believe that
education is the key to success
and happiness for all. But
many foreigners don’t invest
their money in people like
Yali because foreigners are
not educated. Foreigners are
educated in African oil, gold,
and rare metals, which are used
to make, for example, phones.
However, they are not educated
towards the culture of darkskinned people who live with
these resources!
People like Yali have the
tradable resources they need
to compete. The problem is that
we take away resources from
people like Yali. Instead, we
should invest in their ability to
own them. If financial markets
can invest in people in Hong
Kong (i.e. for their human
resources in technology), then
I’m sure financial markets can
do the same for the people
of New Guinea. It’s time for
countries like New Guinea to
educate the world about their
Africa Diaspora heritage; it’s
time for other countries to
realize their self-determination
and prosperity!
A man of fair skin once told
me that I was limiting myself by
MARCH 2018
Student Contributor, Amber Meyer
During winter break, the Suffolk Law Ski & Snowboard Club took a weekend trip to
Sunday River. The sun was shining, and the weather was warm!
The Suffolk Law Ski and Snowboard Club
went to Sunday River for a weekend trip this
January. We stayed at the ski-on/ski-off Grand
Summit Lodge, which is a crown jewel of the
great state of Maine. The mountain had great
conditions for the entire weekend. We tore up
the slopes! On Saturday, we skied over to the
Foggy Goggle to slug some “refreshments” in
between runs. Let me tell you: there is nothing
quite like sitting at a picnic table and looking
out over the snowcapped mountains while
throwing back “refreshments”. We worked
for our goggle tans! The hotel had an indoor/
outdoor heated pool and hot tub, which made
for great “networking” opportunities after a long
day on the slopes.
On Saturday night, the club went to the
Matterhorn Ski Bar. We saw a country band
talking about Black people. But,
I think the world is limiting itself
by not talking about Race. If we
don’t, then we’re stuck in that
Western bubble which says,
“Race Does Not Matter”.
Imagine this possibility:
what if people today had the
enthusiasm to understand
Yali, to invest his currency, to
learn his language and culture?
(We already do this with Hong
Kong, Tokyo, Spain, New York,
Paris, and even Dubai.) Do you
think Yali would be better off?
Would Yali continue to be the
stereotype? Or would Yali have
a bigger incentive to invest in
himself and his culture – in
turn creating an incentive for
Westerners to visit and explore?
Imagine the possibilities!
So, what’s lacking? Do you
see it yet? Education!
Maybe it’s time for darkskinned people in Africa, New
Guinea, and abroad to stop
chasing a Western education.
make popular songs unrecognizable. I have
never seen “Wagon Wheel” so butchered, yet
so loved by the crowd. The bar had wonderful
souvenir t-shirts to dry off with after a
long night of sweating to a third god-awful
rendition of “Chicken Fried”. Throughout
the night, our Club threw dice down for
some good ‘ol gambling fun per Venmo (a
digital wallet that allows users to exchange
money with friends). We drew a crowd to our
nefarious antics, but would allow no new
players. #NoNewFriends
The trip was full of gnar-worthy moments
that you need to see to believe on our next
trip. The van leaves for Loon Mountain on the
Second of March. All shredders are welcome!
(For more information, contact Amber Meyer
at ameyer3@suffolk.edu)
Instead, maybe it’s time to
build an education around
their culture, so that they
can understand themselves
in a way that the world can
understand them. The world
could finally discover financial
incentives to invest in their
culture. With the power of social
media, I truly believe that Black
entrepreneurs everywhere can
create a new reality and bring
“cargo” back to their countries
and communities. So, let me
close with this:
I can attend all the fashion
shows, networking events, art
galleries in Boston -- dress up,
drink wine, and network with
all Races in one room -- and not
care about my dark skin color. I
can go to all the masterminds in
the world and ignore Race issues
completely. But, I can’t shake
the reality that we live in a world
where a little dark-skinned girl
is crying in Charlotte, North
Carolina about her traumatic
experience with the police; I
can’t shake the reality that
we live in a world where a
little dark-skinned boy in New
Guinea feels poor and inferior
because of his skin color; and I
can’t shake the reality that we
live in a world where there are
Yalis everywhere who ask the
question: Why you White Men
have so much cargo, and we
[Black Men] have so little?’”
The greatest fear is not war
or hate, but not knowing. Like
Jared Diamond, I discovered
the passion to answer my own
question: “What are Black
People like?” With the help of
my team, my mission is to help
Black people be comfortable in
their own skin while learning
to “Live Like An Entrepreneur!”
(For more information, type in
whatareblackpeoplelike.
com, follow the twitter page
@blackpplarelike, or contact
Prince at psefa-boakye@suffolk.
edu)
Attention Law School Students! The Moakley Law Library is excited to announce its
Trainings for the Spring Semester! Stay tuned for dates and locations!
20 minute Micro -Trainings:
• Top Pick: Find Paper Topics & Turn them into Ca$h via iCompete!
• Meet & Greet: All You Need to Know to Prep for Interviews
• Next Step: Information Resources for Law School Grads
• Law Library Bluebook Training:
• Write on the Right Way: Quick Overview of Bluebook Rules!
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Phi Alpha
Delta Law
Fraternity
International
PAGE 7
Suffolk Law
Intramural
Basketball Association
President, Darius Brown
Justice, Rachel Hansen
On Tuesday, January 30, President Trump gave the 2018 State
of the Union Address. (Pictured from left to right) Chapter
President Michael Fox, Vice President Terence Durkin, and
Treasurer Jenna Connors met with Suffolk Law students offcampus to watch this traditional event.
The Federalist Society
President, Michael Fox
Founded in 1982, the Federalist Society is a nationwide
group of conservatives and libertarians dedicated to reforming
the current legal order. We are
committed to the principles
that: (1) the state exists to
preserve freedom, (2) the separation of governmental powers
is central to our Constitution,
and (3) the province and duty of
the judiciary is to say what the
law is, not what it should be.
The Society seeks to promote
awareness of these principles
and to further their application
through its activities.
The Federalist Society
provides a forum for legal
experts of opposing views to
interact with members of the
legal profession, the judiciary,
law students, academics, and
lawmakers alike. We believe
our expansion in membership,
chapters, and program activities
are the result of the quality of
the Society’s events. We have
fostered a greater appreciation
for the role of separation of
powers, federalism, limited
constitutional government,
protecting individual freedom,
and advocating for traditional
values. The Society consists of:
a Faculty Division, a Lawyer’s
Division (consisting of over
60,000 legal professionals), and
a Student Division (consisting
of some 10,000 law students
throughout the nation).
Collectively, we host over 1,000
events every year, and, as a
result, we reach out to about
50,000 law students.
Our local Suffolk Law Chapter
was re-chartered in 2015 under
the leadership of alumnus Chris
Gavrielidis. Since that time, we
have hosted numerous notable
speakers who discussed topics
that ranged from: the US Supreme Court, to the Separation
of Powers. On March 21 at 6pm,
in the Faculty Dining Room, we
will be hosting Clark Neily, Vice
President of Criminal Justice
at the Cato Institute. Mr. Neily
will discuss civil forfeiture (otherwise known as policing for
profit), police misconduct, occupational licensing laws, and
the proper role of the judiciary.
Food will be served!
Sadly, in today’s day and age
we see lawmakers across the
political spectrum denigrate
our constitutional rights to
advance their partisan agenda.
As lawyers, we have a unique
opportunity to protect and
defend the Constitution. To do
this, we must employ a judiciary
that understands its role: to
uphold the Constitution without
regard for the potential political
ramifications. For example,
if the legislature passes an
unconstitutional law and the
executive enforces and defends
it, then the judiciary has an
affirmative obligation to strike
it down. For the sanctity of our
republic, we must do better!
The Hellenic Law Society
President, Zachary Paskalis
The word “Hellenic” is the
literal Greek translation for
Greece itself, “Hellas”. It derives from the period of Alexander the Great when Greece
went from being several small
city-states to one uniformed
country and identity. The Hellenic Law Society embraces the
longstanding Greek culture that
has withstood millennia, and is
considered the genesis of what
we know as western civilization
today.
I became the President of the
Hellenic Society because I am
passionate about my ancestry.
I love to learn more from my
Greek peers about what makes
Greek culture so important to
our society.
The goal of the Hellenic Society is to remind not only those
of Greek ancestry, but anyone
who is intrigued by Greek culture, the uniqueness of Greek
societal values and customs.
Throughout the semester, we
have many events planned,
which includes a Greek Night
that will be hosted at the Law
School. Here, we will display
customary Greek cuisine and
hospitality that one would
encounter as if they were in
Greece itself. In addition, students will also get to Meet and
Greet with local lawyers of
Greek decent. These lawyers
will go through their journey in
the law profession and explain
how their backgrounds gave
them the tools necessary to
succeed in a demanding field.
Our Greek Night and Meet and
Greet events will be determined
in the near future. We hope to
have you join us and get a real
taste of what it means to enjoy
one’s self as the Greeks do! (For
more information, contact Zach
at zpaskalis@suffolk.edu)
Phi Alpha Delta (“PAD”) is the
largest co-ed legal fraternity
in the nation. Some of our
esteemed members include
a majority of the current
United States Supreme Court
(AKA “SCOTUS”). PAD strives
to put forward the ideals of
service to the student, the
school, the community, and
the profession. At Suffolk, our
local Frankfurter Chapter does
this by enacting a myriad of
events and connections. For one
example, our annual headshots
and mock trial team focuses on
developing student performance
in the work place and the
courtroom. Another example
is our biennial conventions,
which is one of the largest
networking opportunities in the
legal community.
PAD is an extended legal
family. The Fraternity is
dedicated to helping members
succeed -- no matter where
they practice or what field they
practice in. Whether its law,
politics, or finance, we have
members in a wide range of
fields that are always willing
to help.
(For more info, contact PAD at:
padfrankfurter@gmail.com)
“SLIBA Opening Game Day. 1L Section A (white) versus1L
Section C (blue).”
Suffolk Law Intramural
Basketball Association (SLIBA)
is an on-campus club. It consists
of teams that represent each
section of the law school. Each
season, the club begins with
open court sessions and pickup games, which players use
to get familiar with basketball,
train, and network. Don’t forget
-- we have Alumni players
too!
Players don’t need experience
to participate. If a player
doesn’t have any, they can rely
on teammates to help them
increase their skills.
During this semester,
recorded games are played on
Tuesdays from 8pm-10pm.
Open court sessions are on
Saturdays from 8am-12pm.
(For more information, please contact
dbrown28@suffolk.edu)
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Volume XVII. No. 3
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Suffolk University Law School’s Very Own
Awarded as National Jurist’s Law Student of the Year
It’s one thing to generate a list of highly sought
after internships and clerkships to help build
up a resume and skill set. Cherina Clark’s CV
is full of those, including her stints as an intern
for Justice Hines of the Supreme Judicial Court
of Massachusetts, for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court
(MA), and for the U.S. House Committee on the
Judiciary in Washington, D.C.
It’s another thing to take on those clerkships and
internships, a dual degree (JD/MBA), and still
make time to: meet with first-generation law
students on-on-one, week after week; train urban
high school students; and help craft legislation
to help people in a city 700 miles away.
Throughout law school, Clark has been doing
trainings on “Street Law” with Boston Public
School students, ages 13 to 17 — Miranda
rights, Fourth Amendment/search and seizure,
and how to interact with police. The idea is that
a knowledgeable teenager is much more likely
to react calmly and have a clearer idea when
a police officer has wrongly crossed a legal
boundary.
Clark, president of Suffolk Law’s Black Law
Students Association (BLSA) since 2015, says
that the trainings, in addition to clarifying the
high schoolers’ legal rights, provide students
with role models. The teens have a chance to
interact with successful BLSA members, often
from similar backgrounds as themselves, and that
relationship leads some to think to themselves,
‘Hey if they can do it, maybe I can too.’ ”
Clark also spearheads the BLSA Peer Mentor
Tree Program. The idea is that if a firstgeneration student has several mentors — a
2L, a 3L and a few alums, multiple branches
of support — someone in that group is going
to click with the student. Together, one or
more of those mentors stick with the student
throughout their academic and legal career.
“A lot of first generation students — and I
am one myself — don’t understand what law
school is all about. I meet with my mentees
every two weeks, and also am texting to see
how they’re doing, making sure they have
outlines, supplement books and contacts for
resources, because I know someone did it for
me.”
As a student teacher in the Marshall
Brennan program, Clark taught inner-city
teens Constitutional Law including legal
arguments surrounding search and seizure,
acts of protest (silent, artistic, and otherwise).
At the Supreme Judicial Court, her role was
to look at 50 cases to offer her opinion as
to which of the cases seemed to warrant
appellate review.
Clark worked with the national office of
the Black Law Students Association on
draft legislation submitted to the State of
Michigan to address the Flint water crisis. This
effort was important to Clark and other members
of BLSA because it affected the greater minority
community.
“There is nothing like being able to use the tools
I have learned while in law school to effectuate
change and advocate for those who cannot or do
not know how to do so. BLSA’s contribution to
the Flint water Crisis was certainly one of those
moments where I was able to be a voice for my
community,” Clark said.
In 2014, Clark received the Governor’s Citation
Award from then-Massachusetts’ Governor,
Deval Patrick, for her work with the NAACP
on amicus briefs for civil rights cases before the
U.S. Supreme Court.
Dean of Students Laura Ferrari credits Clark
with rebuilding the law school’s diverse student
orientation program. “The school is indebted to
her for her systematic, humane, and practical
approach for encouraging success in law school.
Being a true supporter is hard — it takes time
and energy, often when time is scarce and other
obligations call. That’s Cherina. Tireless.”
Clark is one of 25 future lawyers honored in the National Jurist’s
2017 “Law Student of the Year” feature.
Article can be found at http://www.nationaljurist.com/content/
law-students-year-cherina-clark-suffolk-university
A Lot of Smoke for There
to Not Be a Fire: Director
Comey’s Congressional Hearing
Elizabeth Green, Opinion Columnist
“Can this country afford to have a president under
investigation by the FBI?” Senator Marco Rubio
asked, days before the presidential election back in
November.1 At the time, this comment was directed at
Hillary Clinton, who was indeed under investigation
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concerning her infamous private email server.
I’m sure, to Senator Rubio’s surprise and
dismay, his words gained new meaning on
Monday, March 20th, 2017. That was the day
FBI Director James Comey confirmed in a
Congressional hearing, in the opening statement
no less, that’s “HUUUUGE” (as the POTUS
would say) that the bureau does indeed have an
ongoing investigation into Russian involvement
in the 2016 presidential election—including
any links or coordination between members
of Donald Trump’s campaign and Moscow.
According to Director Comey, the investigation
has been ongoing since July 2016. Therefore,
while crowds of Trump supporters were chanting
“lock her up!,” their very own nominee was also
under investigation. Perhaps the very definition
of irony.
Schiff noted in his opening statement that
it is not a crime to have ties to Russia,
but he did say “if the Trump campaign or
anyone associated with it aided or abetted
the Russians, it would not only be a serious
crime, it would also represent one of the
most shocking betrayals of democracy in
history.”3 Even bigger than Watergate,
you ask? Yes, even bigger than Watergate.
Representative Schiff went on to list known
conversations that have taken place between
various Trump associates and Russian
officials and individuals. Representative
Schiff concluded by stating that it’s true
that none of this information proves outright
conspiracy, but there just seems to be an
awful lot of smoke for there to not be a fire.4
When it comes to Representative Schiff, it’s
safe to say that this isn’t his first rodeo—
as assistant U.S. Attorney he prosecuted a
case against a former FBI agent convicted
of “passing secret documents to the Soviet
Union in exchange for a promised $65,000
in gold and cash.”5
While the Democrats on the panel were
focused on drawing connections between
the President, his campaign, and Russian
interference in the election, their Republican
counterparts were more so focused on leaks of
classified information to the press, specifically
concerning those related to Michael Flynn’s
dealings with Russia. During Representative
Trey Gowdy’s questioning, he asked if there
was “an exception in the law for reporters
who want to break a story,” suggesting
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So what does this mean? Well first of all, it’s
rather curious that Director Comey thought it
was necessary for the American voters to know
about an investigation into Clinton’s emails,
but they didn’t need to know about possible
collusion between Trump’s associates and
Russia. Especially considering his testimony
revealed that the FBI was investigating this three
months before the election. Granted, it’s only fair
to point out that it was not Director Comey who
leaked that the FBI was investigating Clinton’s
email to the press. That move would lay on the
shoulders of Representative Jason Chaffetz.
Chaffetz chose to tweet classified information
provided in a letter to Congress from Comey.2
During the hearing, Representative Adam
that those who write stories based on leaked,
classified information are criminally liable.6
Director Comey responded that he is unaware
of such an exception in the statute concerning
dissemination of classified information and that
he doesn’t think “a reporter’s been prosecuted
certainly in my lifetime...”7
It’s hard to determine what’s going to
come of this, but personally I doubt the FBI
would announce an investigation into the sitting
President’s administration unless they are fairly
confident that they have a strong case. However,
only time will tell. I believe Garry Kasarpove,
Chairman of the Human Rights Foundation, said
it best in a tweet: “the house is on fire, Trump
is running around with a box of matches, and
the GOP demands to know who called the fire
department.”
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1.
http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/the-buzzflorida-politics/rubio-once-asked-can-this-country-affordto-have-a-president-under/2317246
2.
http://www.politicususa.com/2016/10/31/ethicscomplaint-filed-rep-jason-chaffez-releasing-comeyclinton-email-letter.html
3.
h t t p : / / w w w. n p r. o r g / s e c t i o n s / t h e t w o way/2017/03/20/520765159/watch-live-house-hearingon-russian-attempts-to-interfere-in-u-s-election
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Schiff
5.
http://www.businessinsider.com/james-comeyhearing-trump-russia-leaks-2017-3
7http://www.businessinsider.com/james-comey-hearingtrump-russia-leaks-2017-3
Beware the Rumor Mill: Taking Your Academic Success Under Advisement
Registration Assistance / Degree
Requirements
The Office of Academic Services is committed to
providing accurate and timely services to Suffolk
University Law School students, faculty, alumni
and staff. The key responsibilities include:
Registration, Exam Administration; Course
Evaluations; Grades; Bar Certification; and
Degree Requirements. Registering for classes,
meeting requisites in a timely manner, preparing
for bar exam, and means of seeking academic
guidance is often complex. Even so, as a future
member of the legal community, proactively
owning your path to success doesn’t need to
become a rat-race. The “The Rumor-Mill for
academic success is alive, well, and thriving,”
says Assistant Dean Lorraine
D. Cove, who spearheads ongoing initiatives
at the Office of Academic Services. Following
April registration for Fall 2017 courses, Dicta
staff sat down with Dean Cove for a Q & A
session.
Q: Dean Cove, how important is it for law
students to be prepared for registration?
A: I can’t stress enough how important
preparation during the registration process
is to insure that students meet degree
requirements, take courses to prepare for the
bar examination, other programs, and to meet
professional goals. The Office of Academic
Services prepares multiple materials to assist
students in navigating this process. The
online Registration Guide is crafted to provide
students with the tools and info needed for a
successful registration including registration
rules, web courses, registration process,
waitlists, bar prep courses, limitations on
clinical and externship credits, semester
credit requirements, overload petitions, etc.
We also provide lists of courses that students
were enrolled in by class year. Students
having reviewed the Registration Guide are
armed with basic information and are then
only a few clicks away from registration.
Q: If I were “the ideal” law student, what
three basic steps would I take to prepare?
A: I know registration can be a daunting process
especially for students entering the first semester
of the second year and it takes students time to
get used to. First year students have a prescribed
mandatory program and have not had the
opportunity to choose electives until now.
Number one, all law students need to review
the elective list, not only for the upcoming
semester, but for the entire year. By taking this
initial step, course planning becomes more
efficient, because students know what classes
are currently available, and what classes will
be available the following semester. Secondly,
students should think about future semesters
to insure that courses necessary to meet pre
requisites are taken. The fall semester of the
second year should be considered an exploratory
semester and students should take at least one or
two course that are not required for the degree
or the bar. Many of the subject requirements for
the bar are not required and students should be
aware of those areas. Thirdly, I cannot stress
enough how important it is to review the semester
exam schedule which is available at the time of
registration. The examination schedule should
not drive registration, however, it needs to be
considered when registering. Mental fatigue
can be a real problem and students should be
aware that it is possible to have 2 examinations
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scheduled on the same day. Students may
reschedule an examination only when the student
has 3 examinations within a 53 hour period.
Finally, students should complete the on line
planning process, and always have alternative
selections available. Courses with limited
enrollment can fill up quickly and students
should have a plan B.
within the base menu and experiential
learning requirements.
Q: Some students don’t enter law school with
a specific legal field in mind. Along with the
guide, what other options do student seeking
direction have?
A: I really can’t respond to this question
about the PCD office, however, I do know
that the PCD office is as committed to
student success as my office and all other
law school offices. I meet with students all
the time to discuss educational planning,
course selection strategies, and making
sure students know remaining degree
requirements. I work with students regarding
their academics, but I strongly recommend
that students take the initiative to continue to
see their PCD advisors beyond the 1L year
for their professional development.
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A: The online interactive Registration guide can
eliminate issues that may arise later. One of our
goals is to provide as many resources available
online to students at any time of the day or night.
The Registration Guide is in a Flipping Book
format which means that the guide is searchable
and available in multiple formats. The Guide
provides all of the program opportunities within
one location and since the guide is searchable,
students can check the requirements, not only
for the JD, but to consider the possibility of a
JD/LLM Tax program, dual degree program
with the university, enrolling in a concentration,
clinics, externships, or summer programs. The
office recommends that students reach out to as
many resources as possible prior to registration
from their assigned academic faculty advisors,
the PCD office, upper-class students, alumni or
anyone else to receive as much information as
possible to achieve academic goals. I am always
available to meet with students. Every student
has access to a degree audit which can also be a
helpful tool in planning schedules each semester.
Q: For rising 2L students, who now can pick
and choose their classes, would your office
recommend both a PCD appointment, and
advisement with an Academic Advisor?
A: Students are assigned faculty advisors based
on the interests students included on their
application. We are not always able to assign
faculty who teach in the interested areas to all
students. Students are encouraged to seek advice
as noted above. First year faculty advisors
will reach out to their advisees for preliminary
advising sessions. In addition, each year the
Office of Academic Services and the SBA
Student Affairs partner to offer a Round Table
event which was held a few weeks ago. The
format of the program provided an opportunity
for first year law students to ask professors about
recommended courses for their interested field(s)
of study and to become more familiar with
professors outside of their first year courses. It
also provided a forum for professors to interact
with interested first year law students and to
provide guidance to students in the elective
selection process. Twenty four faculty attended
offering advice from Bankruptcy to Trademarks.
Approximately 100 students attended this event.
We also provide a Guide Book for these students
to pre plan schedules. Students should start
earning their pre-requisites immediately, while
taking full advantage of the diverse courses
Q: After 1L, notwithstanding a plethora
of emails, the PCD office seems to reboot
for the next incoming class. Why does the
PCD office seem to “disconnect” from
2L’s?
Summaries of course evaluations are posted on
line and available to all students and also act as
a resource to students when selecting courses.
We encourage all students to participate in this
process.
Students have been receiving an emails from
the Law School Student Survey of Engagement
(LSSSE). This is also an opportunity for students
to respond to questions about their academic
and other learning experiences, interactions with
other students, faculty and administrators, quality
of life at the law school, and engagement at the
law school. It is very important that students
respond. As an incentive, the Office of Academic
Services will randomly select students to award
bookstore gift cards to five students. We only
know those who have participated, but not the
specific responses of any student. This survey
provides Suffolk the opportunity to compare
ourselves to other institutions to continually
improve the services and learning environment
we offer our students.
Q: How much real emphasis is put on the
evaluations towards the Professor?
A: The Law school takes evaluations very
seriously. Course evaluations are important, and
that’s why we want students’ honest assessments
of their courses and professors. If a student has
concerns about a course and does not want to
meet with a dean about this issue, the course
evaluation may be the vehicle for that student
and to remain anonymous. Faculty are not
provided with the course evaluations until all
grades have been submitted and posted.
Grades/ Bar Exam Certification:
Course Evaluations:
Q: Will course evaluations be going
digital?
A: As of right now, no, however, we may
be piloting an online version of the course
evaluation for one course.
All course
evaluations are still completed on paper.
A number of schools still use paper, while
other have gone the digital route. However,
those that have gone the digital route don’t
have the same student participation as
the paper evaluation forms, and need to
use other means to encourage students to
complete evaluations – like preventing
registration for the next semester or delaying
the receipt of the grades. Paper forms are
totally anonymous. Paper forms cannot be
traced to any individual student. Students
completing forms on line may have the
perception that the responses/comments
may not be anonymous. Secondly, we do
want students to be honest in their evaluation
of courses. The goal of the evaluation isn’t
soley about evaluating the Professor, we
want students to have the opportunity to
truthfully and honestly assess the course.
Q: What is the method behind 1L vs. 2L
grading?
A: All grading for first year students and upperclass students enrolled in required core courses
are based on a mandatory curve, with a median
grade of B.
Faculty members are required
to grade based on this grade distribution
requirement and makes the assessment of grades
based on students perform.. For elective courses
with classes of 40 more students, the grade is
anchored at a B+. At Suffolk, the 1st year GPA is
the better indicator of bar passage success.
Q: Is it a law school death-sentence for 1L’s
find themselves on academic warning or
academic probation?
A: No. First year students who are not required
to appear before the Academic Standing
Committee, but who receive a GPA of 2.50
but below 2.67 will be placed on Academic
Warning and subject to the Academic Warning
Curriculum; first year students who receive
a first year GPA of 2.67 – 2.99, are subject to
the “guided curriculum” as noted in I. Degree
Requirements, 5,. These additional curriculum
requirements provides students with a structured
pathway to successfully passing the Bar.
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Students who appear before the Academic
Standing Committee and are placed on academic
probation must complete the terms of probation
as provided. Depending on the terms of the
probation, the student may need to enroll in
a subsequent semester to meet degree/credit
requirements.
VALUABLE CLERK
INTERNSHIPS
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Q: What implications does the adoption of
the Uniform Bar Exam have on rising 3L
students.
A: Suffolk Law School’s 2018 graduating class
will be first class to take the Uniform Bar Exam.
The function of the Bar Exam is to determine
whether a J.D. candidate is competent to practice
law in in a State and the Uniform Bar Exam does
essentially the same thing. The Bar Exam in
Massachusetts is administered twice each year
in February and July and on two (2) consecutive
days. Day one of the exam is the Multi-State
Bar Examination (MBE) and day two (2) is the
Massachusetts essay portion of the exam. The
MBE and the essay sections are taken concurrently.
The Uniform Bar Examination is composed of
the Multistate Essay Examination (MEE), two
Multistate Performance Test (MPT) tasks, and
the Multistate Bar Examination (MBE). One
benefit J.D. candidates will have, is that twentyseven states accept the UBE, which gives an
opportunity for professional mobility.
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SUFFOLK JUVENILE COURT PROVIDES
by Anne Stevenson
Serving as a Judicial Clerk Intern in the
Suffolk Juvenile Court was of the most
valuable experiences I had while a studying
at Suffolk Law. This experience provided me
with valuable insight as to how judges make
decisions, as well as hands on legal writing
and research experience in a court setting.
Suffolk Juvenile Court is located on New
Chardon Street in downtown Boston. The
interns are overseen by Judge Stephen
Limon, and come from law schools all
over the Boston area, such as Northeastern,
Harvard, and New England Law.
As a Judicial Clerk Intern, most of my
time was spent either in court observing
cases, conducting legal research, or drafting
documents. The types of cases we observed
included delinquency, harassment, criminal,
care and protection, children in need of
assistance, and dependency cases.
One of the most valuable aspects of this
internship was that every day, Judge Limon
would eat lunch with the interns. During this
time, we were able to discuss with Judge Limon
our observations in court, as well as emerging
legal and policy issues in the field. Occassionally,
other judges would join us as well. This time
was important to me because it showed me how
judges decide cases, as well as several effective
methods that good lawyers use to successfully
present their cases to the court.
Lastly, I enjoyed this internship because it gave
me real hands on experience in an underserved
area of law. The most vulnerable families in
Massachusetts come through these courtrooms. I
observed cases which involved severe child abuse
and neglect, child exploitation and trafficking.
Most of these kids were poor, not white, and
have disabilities or addiction issues that are not
fully addressed in their school setting. We also
saw happy cases where families were reunited,
as well as attended Adoption Day, which is a
time to celebrate placing formerly abused and
neglected children in healthy permanent homes.
What I heard in those courtrooms were amazing
stories of resiliance, survival and hope, and
I recognized that as a lawyer, I could make a
positive impact on these children’s lives. It was
rewarding to work with good people who cared
about the same social justice issues I do, but my
supervisors in the Boston Juvenile Court served
as valuable references for the bar and employers
after graduation. During my last summer of law
school, I was also able to take my experience
in the Suffolk Juvenile Court to work with the
child welfare system in Ireland through Suffolk
Law’s partnership with the National University
of Ireland-Galway.
As you plan your legal training, consider clerking
in the Juvenile Court. Internships are available in
the Spring, Summer and Fall semesters for 2-5
credits (depending on hours worked). Interested
applicants should contact:
Selling Your Soul
in Today’s Digital
Environment
Kierra MacDougall, Staff Writer
Crude oil, gold, and wheat. These are just a few
examples of commodities that “make the world
go round.” While the business of trade has
transformed over the years, there will always
be a demand of valuable raw materials. History
has shown us how far more powerful people are
willing to go to acquire these precious tangible
resources, but what about a resource that is
intangible? Welcome to the age of information.
We are living in a time where information has
become a commodity that can be easily dispersed
in seconds with the help of technology. Whether
it’s business, science, or politics, technology has
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in some way transformed our lives by making
our world an interconnected global economy.
Now more than ever it is easier to collect, store,
analyze, and communicate information. Big data
has allowed companies to tailor products and
services to better fit our needs. Consumers love
personalization in their purchasing experience
and companies love making money off of them.
Who wouldn’t want a product/service that
satisfies everything you have ever hoped for?
However, consumer data does not magically
appear. A company cannot just read your mind
and know when you are ready to buy that new
pair of boots you have had your eye on, or can
they?
felt the direct impact of such rules, these
privacy regulations would have prevented
Internet providers from selling consumers’
data without their explicit consent. This was
a huge win for privacy advocates because
they have been tirelessly pushing for privacy
laws and regulations that would better
protect the consumer. As FCC Chairmen
Tom Wheeler stated, “It’s the consumers’
information, how it is used should be the
consumers’ choice. Not the choice of some
corporate algorithm.”
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While consumers claim they are advocates
of privacy, that doesn’t stop them from being
easily influenced in giving up their personal
information in exchange for a “good” product
or service. Data marketing has become a $300
billion industry and they are using your personal
information, some of which you have willingly
gave up, to make a profit. Sure you may not
care because you are applying the “no harm, no
foul” ideology, but the long-term effects of this
privacy intrusion go beyond that perfect pair of
boots.
In 2007, The Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) described Personally Identifiable
Information (PII) as “information which can
be used to distinguish or trace an individual’s
identity, such as their name, social security
number, biometric records, etc. alone, or when
combined with other personal or identifying
information which is linked or linkable to a
specific individual, such as date and place of
birth, mother’s maiden name, etc.” Through the
Privacy Act, along with others, the government
attempts to protect the privacy of the American
consumer. However, Federal agencies differ in
how strict they are in their privacy regulations.
For example, data collecting companies, like
Google and Facebook, fall under the supervision
of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) while
Internet providers, like Verizon and Comcast,
are supervised by the Federal Communications
Commission (FCC).
Due to a gap in consumer protection law, the FCC
adopted broadband privacy rules last October
to improve the cyber security and privacy of
consumers. While consumers’ would not have
Recently, in a 50-48 vote, the U.S. Senate
repealed the FCC’s adoption of these rules.
This means Internet providers will be
able to collect data from places like your
Internet history, mobile location, email/
messages, finances, health, and app usage.
Internet providers want to be on the same
level playing field as Google and Facebook,
arguing that customer’s behavioral data is
a key source of revenue that can be used to
analyze and sell targeted advertising. This
means that even without your consent, these
companies will be able to know everything
about you – where you go, what you like, who
you talk to, etc. – all to make a profit. While
you may not care about nonconsensual use
of personal information as a profit-making
machine, it may concern you that the data
collected from monitoring your personal
activity could get into the hands others, not
just corporate America.
As recent news has shown, companies are
not immune to cyber security attacks. In a
letter to Congress in 2015, General Counsel
from companies across various industries
such as Microsoft Corp., Aetna Inc., Bank
of America, and more, advocated for
stronger cybersecurity laws. They wanted
Congress to facilitate the sharing of realtime identification, detection, and mitigation
of emerging cyber threats. They believe
that the government and businesses need
to work together to improve the nation’s
cybersecurity protections.
The OMB’s 2016 annual report to Congress
stated that in 2016 alone, Federal agencies
were exploited to over 30,899 cyber incidents
– with sixteen meeting the threshold to
trigger a series of mandatory
steps for Federal agencies. In Trump’s budget
request, he proposes allocating $1.5 billion for
the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to
safeguard cyberspace. As stated in the OMB’s
blueprint report, this money will go towards
improving responses to cybersecurity attacks
that are directed at Federal networks and critical
infrastructure. The government aims to do so by
having DHS share more cybersecurity incident
information with other Federal agencies and the
private sector.
Data security experts are concerned over the
proposal of having a centralized management
of cybersecurity under one executive branch:
the Office of Management and Budget. Former
officials have spoken out bringing up the issue
of how qualified the Office of Management
and Budget is to set forth these cybersecurity
standards. A pressing issue is whether a
centralized cybersecurity management branch
will cut down costs and increase efficiency. Also,
it is important for us to know the gatekeepers,
the individuals, in charge of this sensitive
information. A centralized management of
information may only prove to be effective if
other agencies are willing to take responsibility
for the identification and reporting of their own
cyber attack incidents.
Regardless of where you stand on the issue
consent or how our government is handling
cybersecurity, it is crucial for every individual
to be cognizant of the control one has over one’s
personal information. In a survey conducted by
the Pew Research Center last year in 2016, 64% of
U.S. adults personally experienced a major data
breach. Of this percentage, data theft included
fraudulent charges on their credit card, theft
of sensitive information (ex. account number,
social security number), outside control of email
and social media accounts, impersonation of
fraudulent tax returns, and more.1 The American
public became more aware of data surveillance
when the FBI, without Apple’s help, cracked
into the phone of a terrorist shooter involved
in the San Bernardino attack. Recently, Uber’s
grey balling technique has raised concerns over
the access and use of app user’s information.
Additionally, there are devices that can intercept
your phone’s meta data without the knowledge
of the phone operator. What is scary is that
the average person can purchase these phone
monitoring devices. Aside from whatever you
put on your social media accounts, technology
allows us all to spy on each other.
As advanced technology continues to play
an integral role in our lives, we lose sight of
the imbalance between personal privacy and
security in a digital world. It has become almost
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impossible for any of us to go “black” (off the
grid) unless we are willing to set up camp in
some remote part of Alaska (which even then
who really knows). As individuals, we must
take responsibility for controlling our personal
information. Our challenge is determining how
much information we are willing to give up in
exchange for some reward (product, service,
loyalty program, Facebook post like etc.).
Technology provides an ease of convenience that
poses challenges to our private world. Taking
steps to protect our privacy such as using secured
websites, creating phrase-like passwords, and
not sharing every bit of yourself online are just
some of the ways to control your privacy. We
can push innovators and policy makers to create
a secured, trusted privacy-rights infrastructure
but we can only go so far. Depending on your
level of paranoia and commitment, you might
even consider getting rid of your microwave…
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for either of them. For many, it wasn’t so
much “I’m with her” as it was “I’m against
him,” and vice versa. But for countless
other voters, the candidates themselves were
largely irrelevant. Once it became clear that
President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee,
Judge Merrick Garland, would not get a
hearing, people saw the Court as the number
one issue on election day.
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For further information on the survey results of America’s
digital environment and a list of recommended resources
regarding security breaches, please visit… <http://
www.pewinternet.org/2017/01/26/americans-andcybersecurity/> For further ways to protect yourself,
please
visit
https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/features/
feature-0038-onguardonline
http://www.pewinternet.
org/2017/01/26/americans-and-cybersecurity/
What’s so
Bad about
Originalism?
by Chris Gavrielidis
There’s a lot going on in America, from the
election of President Donald Trump to the
nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to replace
the late Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme
Court. Pure applesauce ensues in Washington
as we speak.
The election saw two completely flawed
candidates with a list of reasons not to vote
And understandably so. For better or worse,
the Supreme Court justices—those notorious
nine unelected lawyers—have become the
most powerful people in the United States.
For all the Court’s influence on an endless
list of high-stakes issues from abortion to
gay marriage and “electioneering,” voters
saw Scalia’s seat as an opportunity to tip the
balance of power on the Court. They knew
that the next jurist (or jurists?) would shape
the legal narrative in America on an array of
issues for decades to come.
Most people assume they have Judge
Gorsuch pinned down on these issues. They
assume he will affirm Citizens United, vote
to overturn Roe v. Wade and Obergefell v.
Hodges, kneel at the altar of RFRA, and do
everything else that they feared someone
like Judge Pryor would have done—just
with smoother overtones in his writing.
But not so fast. Let’s not forget Gorsuch’s
perfect response to a question posed by
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) during the
confirmation hearings. When asked what he
would do if, when interviewed by Trump, he
had been asked to overturn Roe, he said “I
would have walked out the door,” because
“that’s not what judges do.”
So instead of making assumptions on the
contentious issues, let’s talk about what we
know. Gorsuch will uphold the Constitution
and laws of the United States. In doing so,
he will not die on the hill of stare decisis.
(Brown v. Board, anyone? Lawrence v.
Texas? Can I get an amen from Justice Thomas
fans?) He will vote to end or at least significantly
limit Chevron and Auer deference. He would,
if given the opportunity, draw back the dormant
commerce clause and restore power to the states.
He would strike a balance between free exercise
and establishment—as the Court unanimously
did in Reed v. Gilbert in 2015. And when
given the choice, he would rest on the Tenth
Amendment’s mandate to defer to the states or
to the people about that which the Constitution
remains silent.
Too often, however, litigants jump ahead to the
due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment,
which has become a “catch-all” for constitutional
claims. The result is a powerful substantive due
process doctrine that swallows the vox populi
enshrined in the Tenth Amendment. But the
Supreme Court, while a rightful bastion of the
“counter-majoritarian difficulty,” should not
be used as a vehicle to frustrate the will of the
people where it does not conflict with the four
corners of the Constitution. Judge Gorsuch
understands this. He believes that it is the sole
role of the judiciary to say what the law is, not
what it ought to be.
Yes, he is an originalist. But an originalist
understands that the Fourteenth Amendment,
the First Amendment, the commerce clause,
and other constitutional provisions were not
intended to enlarge the federal government or
the Court’s influence on contentious matters of
public debate. If the judiciary is truly “the least
dangerous” branch of government as Alexander
Hamilton argued in Federalist No. 78, then the
Court’s job is simply to uphold the Constitution
and laws of the United States as the Framers
intended and lay down the supremacy clause
Marbury v. Madison style.
And what’s so bad about that? For any of its
flaws, the people have a mandate to “alter or
abolish” the law. The writers of the Declaration
understood that, and they launched the most
successful experiment of democracy in human
history. For larger grievances, the people can
and should resort to Article V—as they have
twenty-seven times in the past. But as long as
we have a thriving culture of debate in America,
it is for the people, and not the judiciary, to
identify and fix endemic flaws in our society.
How Technology is Changing the Practice of Law
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From Left to Right: Dan Jackson, Christopher Bavitz,
(SULS Representative), Karen Copenhaver, and Chris
Gibson
______________________
Chris Gavrielidis is graduating in 2017 and serves as
President of the Federalist Society of Suffolk Law.
He believes in limited government and an originalist
interpretation of the Constitution, and he has a passion
for First Amendment law.
A Philosopher’s
Reflection of LegalTechnology
by Alex Sneirson, Dicta Contributor
During the course of this year, I’ve made the
time to attend multiple panel discussions. I’ve
gone because they are a break from law school,
a glimpse of our profession in the the real world,
and a way to get free food.
I’ve recently attended a lot of legal-technology
discussions. They tend to all start with the
premise that technology has influenced every
major profession, and has now begun to
substantially impact our own. Every speaker
always has a different take on the value of its
impact. It varies from anything as small as,
“email has changed in-house and attorney-client
relationships”, to anything as big as, “lines of
code are making services too cheap for people
to need me!” But one factor they all seem to
agree upon is that legal-technology is “the shiny
new toy that no one quite yet understands”.
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another world, we may have never seen again.
In business, we have access to a market of
people that, in another world, we would have
never been able to reach. Whether its friends,
or professional relationships, we don’t
necessarily communicate in person anymore.
The way we treat people that we have no
natural connection to has changed as well.
These legal-technology discussions all talk
about specific ways in which our profession
has changed and continues to change. I
urge you to keep up with these discussions
because what you assume will become a
long-term position may, instead, become a
short-term one. Most businesses, both small
and big, don’t have the time to understand
the impact of technology. Quite frankly, they
care about the bottom line. However, don’t
be alarmed: these discussions almost always
end with an uplifting message.
On the surface things may change, but the
core of our profession will forever remain
the same. As long as people have problems,
people will need solutions. The important
part of a human-oriented economy is that
technology can’t replace the human needs.
We may convince ourselves that it can, but
our primal instincts of survival will always
overrule. Whether it’s in a courtroom or in an
office, having a strong sense of advocacy is
crucial to our individual success. This means
developing skills that technology cannot
replace. Social media may distract us from
our surroundings. Legal technology may
change the way people access our services.
But people are people. Our profession, like
many others, will never be replaced by the
priceless, subtle, and fundamental value of
making a difference in someone’s life.
______________________
Work / Life Balance
as a Young Attorney
by Brittany Peck, Associate Editor
Our understanding of technology’s impact is
limited by time. From what we understand so
far, technology has changed the way we think
and act. Video games allow us to stay inside at
home. The internet allows us create communities
we’re never physically a part of. In other words,
technology has overlooked the simplicities of
life, and created a way that ironically makes us
less social. It has changed our relationships to
each other and the greater world alike.
By the time a student starts law school,
they have likely been already exposed to
the traditional notions of lawyering as a
whole- sleepless nights, endless deadlines,
elongated client calls, and more. They see
perhaps a family member, someone on their
Facebook timeline, or someone impatiently
waiting for a triple-shot cappuccino at
Starbucks express their dissatisfaction with
their life as an attorney.
The expectation of dissatisfaction with one’s
career choice is not a positive outlook for law
students. However, as the times are changing
in society, the changes in the legal world
are not keeping up with regard to work-life
balance.
Our connection to different communities has
changed. We keep in touch with friends that, in
According to an ABA article titled “The
Young Attorney Balancing Act: How to have
a Career- and a Life,” by Victoria Santoro, she
sets out the argument that “before [one] begin
advocating for yourself in attempts to achieve
the ideal, but elusive, work/life balance, you
need to know why this is something you want.
Using some available statistics on employee
engagement and productivity, it becomes very
clear why balance is something you should be
seeking out. No young lawyer wants to sound
like they are searching out the ability to “slack,”
so I suggest advocating for the three H’s:
happy; healthy; and hopeful. These can serve
as your guideposts as you search out flex time,
telecommuting, and the other things necessary
to achieving work/life balance.”
The three H’s of happy, healthy, and hopeful
could be achieved in many different ways, just
as each young attorney’s life is unique.
The topic of advocating for one’s own self as
an attorney is not one discussed in law school
curriculum. Law students are taught that one
must be a zealous advocate on behalf of your
clients, but not for one’s self. However, as this
article states, achieving “the shouldn’t be elusive
work-life balance,” starts at the very beginning
of one’s law career.
The Atlantic’s article by Leigh McMullan
Abramson, titled “How Can Lawyers Balance
Work and Leisure?” discusses the topic of the
“arms race” of big law firm burnout, personal
sacrifice, and the market failure of billable hours.
The fact that attorneys want better worklife balance is not paramount to one class of
attorneys, but an overarching theme. If The
Atlantic’s hypothesis is correct, that all attorneys
want to achieve better work-life balance, and
that law firms must adapt to accommodate that
balance; leads to the very question of why law
firms haven’t adapted.According to Law Practice
Today’s article “How to Pull off the Great
Balancing Act,” interests such as community
service, spending time with family,
that lay outside an office building are essential to
maintaining a successful career.
So what do YOU think? Is a particular emphasis
on work-life balance important to you? What
benefits do you think the law field as a whole
will achieve with this goal of new attorneys?
Let the editor know at bpeck@suffolk.edu.
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Words of Advice
from an Alum
William Noel, SULS 2015
Exams are fast approaching, Summer is just
around the corner. When I was in law school
this was always a stressful time; your primary
focus is studying and locking down plans for
internships (or the bar exam).
As you look forward to next semester, it is
important to remember that there are a multitude
of equally important things you can do to help
land your first job after graduation.
During my three years at Suffolk University
Law School, I had a hard time narrowing down
my goals for a career. Having a Juris Doctorate
unlocks a plethora of career paths. According to
the ABA over half of all law students will use
their J.D. outside of the court room.
Alternative Legal Careers are plentiful if you
know what kind of job you want. In 2015, I
found my first, lucrative career only two months
after graduating. I was able to focus my search
because I participated in a wide variety of
competitions and networking opportunities.
How do you determine what kind of job is best
for you? Participate in everything you can.
Polish Practical Skills & Explore your
Strengths
There is a misperception that law school is
primarily mock trials and writing contests. These
two kinds of competitions are valuable, but there
are many other ways to explore fields that you
might have overlooked.
For example, Fordham Law School hosts an
annual NBA negotiation competition. Tulane
holds an MLB arbitration competition, and
the ABA hosts events ranging from Client
Counseling to Appellate Advocacy competitions.
There are enough competitions that anyone can
find something to build their practical skills.
Polishing these practical skills is the perfect way
to see what aspects of legal work you want to
pursue. The Fordham competition played a role
in helping me narrow my job opportunities by
allowing me to discover my love of negotiation
in a business setting. The ABA Client Counseling
competition helped me realize my ability to
adapt and organize to unexpected issues as they
arise.
Network and Learn with your bar
memberships
Law school is more than just lectures, reading, and
exams. You have been given amazing resources
for your education. The most important of which
is your ABA Membership. Sign up for as many
legal divisions as possible. These will give you
ample opportunity to network with established
attorneys. The Boston Bar association has
similar events around the city.
You can volunteer for community service with
groups like the Young Lawyers Division, or
attend the local meetings focusing on issues from
Employment and Labor Law to Science and
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Technology. Additionally, there are plenty
of seminars and networking opportunities at
this year’s Annual Conference in New York
City, August 8-15.
All of these events, meetings, and networking
opportunities can expose you to new paths
to follow, or reinforce your dedication to
a certain field of law. Make sure you take
advantage of every opportunity while you
can.
Once you know what you enjoy doing and
how it aligns with your strengths, finding a
position that fits is easier. Instead of looking
at every job, you will have a targeted search
that will pinpoint the positions that you want
after graduation.
Good Luck.
First, unlike the ACA, the AHCA did not require
Americans to be insured. However, insurance
companies would be allowed to charge those
over 30 years old more on their premiums
for one year if their coverage lapses, creating
essentially, a penalty.
Second, under the ACA low-income customers only
pay a certain percentage of their income (anywhere
between 3-9.5 percent) and when premiums increase so
do subsidies. However, under AHCA customers would
receive a fixed tax credit based on your age and would
max out at $4,000. If premiums were to go above what
you receive, then likely you would no longer be able to
afford coverage.
Third, the current Medicaid expansion would be phased
out and instead, the federal government would only pay
states a set amount per person or receive Medical dollars
as a block grant, regardless of the number of Medicaid
recipients at a given time.
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What would have resulted?
______________________
Understanding the
[Ongoing] Health
Care Debate
Rachel Seed, Staff Writer
Long before assuming position in the oval
office, President Donald Trump promised
to “repeal and replace” Obamacare
or the Affordable Care Act, (“ACA”).
Approximately 64 days into his term, Trump
and his constituents brought an alternative
to the table, the American Health Care Act
(“AHCA”). After a tense period of waiting
and predicting the outcome, the bill was
ultimately pulled on Friday March 24th to the
relief of some and frustrated resentment of
others. Understanding what was on the table,
and what failed, will help to shed light on
what the future of health care reform under
the Trump Administration might mean.
Distinguishing the American Health Care
Act from ACA
The AHCA was not too different from
the ACA in some respects. For instance,
it prohibited insurance companies from
denying customers with pre-existing
conditions and it offered tax credit subsidies
to low-income customers. However, the
differences are truly what created the divide
in support. There are three major differences
between the AHCA and the ACA.
The biggest change, and ultimately one of the main reasons
the bill failed, was in respect to Medicaid. The bill would
have substantially eroded the expansion of Medicaid
under the ACA, by cutting a projected spending of $839
billion and reducing the number of Medicaid recipients by
approximately $14 million in the coming decade. Right
now, the federal government pays a significant share of
states’ Medicaid costs, no matter how much enrollment or
spending rises. The AHCA however, would have given the
states a choice between a fixed annual sum per recipient or
a block grant, both of which would have likely led to major
cuts in coverage over time and more burden placed on the
state. Medicaid is an important facet of health care reform
in this country as the program provides medical care to “4
out of 10 American children; covers the costs of nearly
half of all births in the United States; pays for the care
for two-thirds of people in nursing homes; and it provides
for 10 million children and adults with physical or mental
disabilities.” Unfortunately, health care is not as readily
accessible for low-income Americans on the whole, as it is
in Massachusetts. Despite [some] Republican opposition
to Medicaid as “socialized medicine,” Massachusetts,
under Republican governor Mitt Romney, paved the way
for “near universal health insurance” in 2008 and has been
used as a template for health care reform and policy ever
since.
In addition to significant changes to a foundational
aspect of American health policy, the health care market
itself would shift. Under the AHCA insurers could
charge older customers higher premiums, 5 times higher
than young adults to be exact. Thus, the premiums of
younger Americans would decrease, and as a result, the
mix of people on the individual insurance market would
change. “Older, sicker people would be pushed out of
the insurance market, which would then be comprised of
a higher percentage of younger people, leading to lower
average premiums for individually purchased policies.”
Second, under the ACA low-income customers only pay
a certain percentage of their income (anywhere between
3-9.5 percent) and when premiums increase so do
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subsidies. However,
http://liberalvaluesblog.com/2017/03/09/the-republicanhealth-care-plan-screws-many-to-help-very-few/
Why did it ultimately fail?
Long story short, some of the most conservative members
of the House didn’t think that the AHCA would be
comprehensive enough to replace Obamacare, and
moderates were concerned that the bill would hurt too
many of their state’s poorer citizens. For many moderates,
cuts to Medicaid really put the bill on the chopping block.
Furthermore, concessions between the House Freedom
Caucus, a group of 30 hardline members and moderate
republican members caused too much of a lack of
agreement. The Republican party in general has been
fairly split on how to approach health care reform. Some
more conservative representatives in the party believe the
government should with Obamacare for the foreseeable
future,” Mr. Ryan told reporters on Friday.
Thoughts that
Flounder
refrain from promising health care benefits to its citizens,
while more moderate representative fear that not offering
heath insurance and subsidies to at the least their lowincome citizens will put their state and political position in
jeopardy.
Apparently lack of consensus on the bill went beyond just
the representatives of the House, as Republican Jim Jordan
from Ohio, stated that he had no regrets about killing the
bill--“The lesson here is don’t try to pass a bill that only
17 percent of the country approves of — that’s a problem.”
http://inthesetimes.com/article/20002/trumpcare-singlepayer-medicare-obamacare-bernie-sanders-democrats
What now?
While plans for a next step do not seem particularly
certain, House Republican, Steve Scalise of Louisiana, said
Democrat celebration of keeping the ACA is premature—he
went on to say that “we are closer to repealing Obamacare
than we ever have been before.” As of March 28th, House
Republican leaders and the White House, have restarted
negotiations on legislation to repeal the ACA, however,
Paul Ryan declined to specify what might be in the next
version of the bill or provide any time frame for action.
But he said “Congress needed to act because insurers were
developing the premiums and benefit packages for health
plans they would offer in 2018, with review by federal and
state officials beginning soon.”
Trump however, seems to be taking a step back and
waiting to make the next move on the Health Care debate,
moving onto other issues before his first 100 days are up.
He recently tweeted, “I’ve been saying for years that the
best thing is to let Obamacare explode and then go make a
deal with the Democrats and have one unified deal,” Trump said.
“And they will come to us, we won’t have to come to them.”
However, one unified deal is not an idea that is fully supported.
Some conservative members of the party, including Senator Rand
Paul of Kentucky and Representative Sean P. Duffy of Wisconsin
said they would “redouble their efforts to undo the Affordable
Care Act;” and Representative Steve King of Iowa said [referring
to the ACA] “Rip it all out by the roots!” Friday in a Twitter post.
Yet, other members of the party contend that Democrats should
be involved in efforts to rewrite the bill and might be the only
way to reach a consensus. Regardless, if the party cannot procure
some result to maintain their promise to address the ACA and
health care concerns, the Republican party could be in trouble
come mid-term elections. Former Representative Thomas M
Davis III, expressed that “If the [republican party] fall on their
sword on this, they’re going to get slaughtered. “Where parties
get hurt in midterms is when their base collapses.” Particularly
as Trump and the republican party has promised voters health
care reform for the past 7 years.In the meantime, “we’re going
to be living
Evolution of U.S. Health Care Reform; Pain Physician Journal. 2017.
Pg. 2
The Mirage of Reform—Republican’s Struggle to Dismantle Obamacare;
The New England Journal of Medicine. Marche 22, 2017
How the Health Care Vote Fell Apart Step By Step; NY Times. March
24, 2017
Paul Ryan: House Republicans Will Continue their Push For Health
Care Reform This Year; Washington Post. March 27, 2017
Affordable Care Act Repeal is Back On the Agenda Republicans Say;
NY Times. March 28, 2017.
Paul Ryan: House Republicans Will Continue their Push for Health Care
Reform This Year; Washington Post. March 27, 2017
Some Lawmakers Now Look to Bipartisanship on Health Care; NY
Times. March 26, 2017.
By Nicholas Williams, Editor in Chief
I have some things I’d like to share,
but I’m not entirely certain you’d care.
You might read a line or two,
And decide you’ve read enough.
I bet you will—won’t you?
I’ll forgive you, though.
My panic grows manic,
With deadlines coming hard and fast,
I don’t mean to sound dramatic,
But there is clearly much work to be had.
Registering for classes,
Ensuring all the right ones are taken-Gotta cover all my bases
Or else I’ll be forsaken!
Friends and family, ever so proud.
Compliments and joys abound.
Graduation quickly approaching,
Though I’m sure everybody knows.
Nightmares come encroaching
Of all worst-case scenarios.
The faster graduation approaches,
the sicker that I feel.
Maybe we should all get study coaches,
Don’t fret from the bleachers—
For we’ve reached the end of this academic
year!
but life is about to get very real.
Enjoy your summer and this last edition.
Saying good bye to graduating friends
Dicta will be back in the fall.
I sure hope they come back.
We await your submissions
Not that I expect to never see them again,
To tap into that unknown potential within
To say hi and interact.
you all!
To say the least, this has been quite a year— To my graduating friends,
We are so thankful summer is almost here! We congratulate you on your achievement,
For we know to that end
So be well, dear readers.
This was no easy commitment.
Be of good cheer,
Blessings and love from the Dicta Board!
photo credit Kierra MacDougall
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A Word From the President
The most surprising thing about the end of law school is how none of
it really feels like an end at all. The bar, naturally, plays a part in that.
Pending student loans, just as naturally, also play a part in that. But I
don’t mean that it doesn’t feel like there is no break between academics
and career goals; what I mean is that there is no concrete conclusion.
There is no sense of having arrived at point B after traveling all that
distance from point A. There will just be a morning where you wake up
and it’s over.
I don’t think that that’s a bad thing.
Law school—for better or worse—demands just about as much from
a student as a student is capable of giving. From the first day of 1L to
graduation, law school expects a student to commit and rejects those
who don’t.
Of course there are classes. We remember the events that play out: our
memos. Making it to the end of a ten o’clock lecture twice a week.
Navigating the T’s nebulous schedule to get to our responsibilities on
time. There are, inside this larger arc of law school, particular struggles
that have a beginning, a middle, and an end but these pieces are not the
whole. Deadlines. Assignments. Events. There are things that did come
and go but law school, despite being made up of these things, does not
feel like that.
Even when the distance to the end is something you can count in days
rather than months or in years, law school gives the impression of
stretching forward endlessly and again, I don’t mean to say that that is a
bad thing. Between all those events. Inside all the conflicts that keep us up
at night and aspirations that get us up in the morning, there is something
that is fixed. The student. After days become weeks and weeks become
months and months become years the wash of commitments, academic
and otherwise, begin to shape the person beneath it. That is not to say we
do not struggle, I’ll be honest there were days this semester that I myself
felt like maybe law school was a mistake, it is that we do struggle and
despite that we keep waking up, we keep getting out of bed, and we keep
adding days to those we have already made it through. We keep pushing
past the beginning, and the middle, and the end of those little struggles
until three years have, themselves, begun to look like just another thing
that we have completed.
The time here ends but the effect of that time doesn’t. You don’t commit
yourself entirely to something and then just walk away. Law school
demands as much from a student as a student is willing to give and
when a student has proven he or she is capable of giving that, it entirely
redefines what we think we are capable of. Law school proves that there
is no cap on us and so it seems entirely natural that finding the cap on
law school becomes likewise difficult.
So yes, I am graduating. It is likely that there are good friends who I will
never see again. It is likely that years from now, even after all that I have
poured of myself into the things that mattered to me here—the clinic,
Thank you,
Daniel Hahn
SBA President (2016-2017)
the SBA—that it’ll be largely forgotten.
But that was not the point. It wasn’t
what we did for school. It wasn’t how
we struggled to satisfy all these little
demands we face from day to day. It
was what never quitting on that struggle
proved about us.
Law school does not end because it
does not, like a statement, conclude
anything but rather, like a question asks
us who have endured it—who have
experienced it—what is it that we are
capable of becoming? And there is no
cap on that. Indeed, that is a question
that we will spend the rest of our lives
working to answer.
It has been a tremendous honor and
privilege to work this year as your
student body president. It has been a
tremendous honor and privilege to be
a part of a community that has fostered
inspirational organizations like this
one and I hope that no matter how the
leadership might change over the years
ahead that we, the students of Suffolk
University Law School, never stop
believing that we are capable of being
everything we resolve ourselves to be.
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Volume XVI. No. 2
February 2017
The State House Across from Suffolk as seen in The Departed. (Alison Farquhar/Dicta)
What The Departed Got Right About Boston
By Alison Farquhar, Staff Writer
Bostonian, but the acting, directing, and
writing was overall superb. Its depiction
Cambridge native Casey
of the houses and lesser-known buildings
Affleck won Best Actor at this year’s
of Boston felt authentic as well, and
Academy Awards for his role in
provided a look at Boston beyond just
Manchester-by-the-Sea, a film set in
the iconic sights of the town and the
the namesake coastal town in
Irish-American non-rhotic stereotype
northeastern Massachusetts.
that some other films sets in The Hub
Massachusetts’ film legacy includes
fail to move beyond.
numerous critically-acclaimed films,
For example, we see Costigan
including last year’s big Oscar winner
several times inside and on the top porch
Spotlight, 1990s favorite Good Will
of his three-decker, Sullivan walks up
Hunting, and 2006 Best Picture
the back entrance of the State Police
winner, Martin Scorsese’s The
building on Staniford Street and
Departed.
Merrimac, and later, Costigan meets
Based loosely on the life and
Dignam (Mark Wahlberg) and Queenan
times of Boston organized crime leader
(Martin Sheen) under the Neponset
James “Whitey” Bulger, The Departed
Bridge on the Dorchester side. A scene
follows two Massachusetts State Police
set in Costello's condo on Boston Harbor
officers, corrupt Detective Colin
provides a memorable and dark
Sullivan (Matt Damon), and
perspective on the scenic stretch near
undercover trooper William Costigan
Boston Harbor Hotel, and later, a chase
(Leonardo DiCaprio), both
sequence through back-alleys of
simultaneously working, to different
Chinatown highlights parts of the former
ends, for South Boston gangster
crime-ridden so-called “Combat Zone”.
Francis Costello (Jack Nicholson). The
Additionally, and most notably,
films features roles by Vera Farmiga,
the film touches on the social
Anthony Anderson, Martin Sheen,
consequences of recent events in Boston
Mark Wahlberg, and Alec Baldwin.
history, like the busing riots of the
Photo courtesy of Dicta Staff
SULS students may not realize it,
1970s, the expulsion of the Italianbut our law school lent a notable filming
American mob from the North End (and its
location for The Departed, and it is even
relocation to Providence, RI) of the 1980s,
Madden: When was the last time
referenced in character dialogue in the film: you checked?
and the Catholic church pedophilia scandal
of the 2000s. Issues of sexism,
Sullivan: Before I went to fuckin’
Madolyn Madden (Vera Farmiga): Suffolk!
homophobia, racism, religion, and the
Are you a Statie?
immigrant search of the American dream
Colin Sullivan: Yeah, I’m actually The 7th floor’s Corcoran Room lent the
are also raised. Anyone from eastern
going to law school also.
Massachusetts is likely to recognize and
view from the CGI-generated apartment
Madden: Suffolk? Nights?
identify with the themes that come up in
occupied by Sullivan in the film, with its
Sullivan: Well they don’t run
panoramic view of the Massachusetts State the film. The Departed genuinely captures
Harvard at night last time I checked.
Boston’s dark heart where other films set in
House providing a thematic and selfThe Hub do not, and is among the very best
referential backdrop to several scenes.
films about our town.
I loved The Departed, which feels
cliché as a Massachusetts native and a
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Trump vs. Freedom
of the Press
Elizabeth Green, Opinion Columnist
Photo Credits: Retrieved from Forbes.com on
February 21, 2017
On Friday, February 17, 2017, President
Donald J. Trump criticized the national
media by tweeting from his personal
Twitter account, “The FAKE NEWS
media (failing @nytimes, @NBCnews,
@ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my
enemy, it is the enemy of the American
people!” He had previously posted and
quickly deleted a similar tweet so he
could be sure to add CBS and ABC. He
didn’t delete it because he realized that
perhaps a sitting president should not be
attacking the press due to the First
Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, but
because he wanted to make sure that those
other news organizations were included.
The original post also concluded, in
typical Trump fashion, with one word:
“SICK!”
Americans and the world are well
aware that this is not unlike President
Trump. Trump has been extremely active
in the twitter-sphere for years and things
haven’t changed since his inauguration,
though I must admit I had hoped the
Secret Service (or just anybody) would
have taken his phone away from him after
he was sworn in. I’m not sure about how
you feel, dear reader, but it’s somewhat
worrisome that the President of the United
States is taking time out of what most
would imagine is a rather busy workday
to keep up an almost seamless stream of
twitter commentary about how unfairly he
and his administration are being treated
since taking office.
This particular tweet came just
one day after Trump held what could be
considered a rather combative and lengthy
press conference (over an hour.) Trump
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addressed topics such as his views on
Russia, the first month of his
administration, and of course—his views
on the media. There is much to be
considered concerning some of the things
he said during this particular presser, but
alas—the focus of this column is on Mr.
Trump’s troublesome views about the
press.
Something that Americans and we
as law students know is that the First
Amendment of the Constitution bars
Congress from “abridging the freedom of
speech, or of the press…” Not only that,
but what Trump tweeted, declaring the
media as “the enemy of the American
people” is eerily similar to words used by
some of the worst “baddies” in modern
history—Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin,
and of course Adolf Hitler. While the
term “enemy of the people” originated
back in Roman times, its current form is
Soviet-based terminology. A few months
shy of a century ago, Vladimir Lenin
coined the term “vrag naroda,” “enemy of
the people,” one month after taking power
of the Soviet Union on November 28,
1917. As leaders of the Soviet Union,
Lenin and Stalin both used this term to
justify the murder of millions of innocent
lives.
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This declaration also rings true to the term
adopted by Nazis during Hitler’s time in
power: Lügenpresse—“lying press.” This
was successfully implemented for their
propaganda against the Jewish population,
communists, and foreign press. I don’t
want to come off as pompous by stating
what I studied or what I have a degree in,
but I feel like it’s warranted for this
particular topic. Whilst studying for my
Masters in history, it was drilled into me
that to compare a modern-day person to
Hitler or the Nazis was an easy out…it’s
cheap, if that’s the right word. However,
in this particular instance it’s hard to get
around such a thing. The parallels
(concerning the press at the least) are
slapping us right in the face like a dead,
stinking fish and to be frank—I’m not
alone in saying that it’s frightening.
I don’t bring up these men to be
overly dramatic, but to simply draw
attention to how positively dangerous it is
for the President of the United States to be
so quick to make such a declaration. I get
it—he’s not a politician, he’s not wellspoken as most of his base will
continually say when any hint of
skepticism of the president is suspected.
However, I don’t accept that as an excuse
for this. I don’t believe I ever accepted
that as an excuse for the majority of what
has come out of this man’s mouth, to be
honest.
Photo courtesy of History.com
I’m uncertain what the future of
this administration will be, especially with
the continuing leaks being made
concerning Russia. Trump’s ongoing
battle with the press does not bode well
with me and many other Americans, but if
I let all of the worries I have fill my mind
I will go absolutely crazy. So to take
things one at a time, with this one being
the freedom of the press, I’ll look to the
words of some of America’s most
prominent historical figures for comfort.
Thomas Jefferson, one of the U.S.
Founding Fathers once said: “Our liberty
depends on the freedom of the press, and
that cannot be limited without being lost.”
John Adams wrote “the liberty of the
press is essential to the security of the
state.” I’ll finish this article with
something George Washington once
stated: “Freedom of speech is a principal
pillar of a free government: when this
support is taken away, the constitution of
a free society is dissolved.
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Benedikt Sarnov,Our Soviet Newspeak: A Short Encyclopedia
of Real Socialism., Moscow: 2002, ISBN 5-85646-059-6
Nicolas Werth, Karel Bartošek, Jean-Louis Panné, Jean-Louis
Margolin, Andrzej Paczkowski, Stéphane Courtois, The Black
Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression, Harvard
University Press, 1999, hardcover, 858 pages, ISBN 0-67407608-7
Staying Woke: Why The Celebration of Black History Is So Important
By Nicholas Williams, Editor in Chief
“What is this…the 60s?” Mr. Shaun King says during a presentation he delivered at Suffolk University Law School. Inspired and in
awe at this incredibly knowledgeable writer of social justice, everyone sat on the edge of their chairs hungrily soaking up the knowledge and
lessons he was imparting to the very vast audience of law students and undergrad students. Shaun King is a journalist who, in addition to
being a very outspoken voice for justice reform, is also a formidable source of support for victims of consistent oppression; oppression that
comes in many colors, shapes, and forms. Police Brutality is one of the most well-known, well documented forms of oppression, but it is not
the only form of oppression as we’ve just seen in this recent presidential election.
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human rights. Shaun King’s presentation drove home a point that,
hopefully, everyone in the audience received with open minds and
hearts: for true change to happen, real action must first occur. Real
action goes beyond electing senators and representatives to congress
and presidency; real action begins here, at our schools, in our homes,
within our communities. Humanity has not changed since the
beginning of time. Humanity has fluctuated, had its highs and lows,
but to answer the pressing question posed above, it has not
significantly changed, at least not in a way that’s meaningful. It’s not
the 60s even though it might feel that way. Fact is we’ve never left the
60s behind—never evolved from that oppressive nature.
Electing Donald Trump to the highest office in this country
was not a mistake, nor was the country taken back 50 years. Mr.
Trump cleverly reawakened the inner humanity of America’s
conscience, so it can be no surprise that he won. As Shaun King
pointed out, with each new innovation, there is a drop in humanity.
The signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, the Civil War, the
Women Rights Movement, the Election of President Obama were all
new innovations that marked the beginning of a downward spiral in
humanity.
“Staying Woke”cont. from page 2.
Shaun King at Suffolk Law School on February 8, 2017
(Photo Credit: Nicholas Williams/Dicta)
Mr. King does a great job pointing out that one of the primary
reasons it feels as if we are still living in the 60s is because, contrary
to popular belief, humanity has not gotten better with time. Such is
especially true when in 2017 black people are still being incarcerated
at a higher percentage than their white counterparts for the same
crimes; when in 2017 black people are still cut off from the many
opportunities that their white counterparts have access to; when in
2017 black people are still targeted by police and find themselves
victims of police brutality; when in 2017 we can elect a man who has
vocally and visually exhibited misogynistic views to the highest office
in the land. Sitting here to type out everything that’s still wrong with
America in 2017 is equal to reading an American history book.
Considering all this, in celebrating black history we are not just
celebrating black people and their accomplishments, we are
celebrating the breakthroughs of our society. Celebrating black
history serves as a constant reminder of where our society and our
country were and where we should hope to steer further away from.
With consistent forms of oppression in modern day America, it is now
more important than ever to be reminded of America’s troubled but
not soon forgotten past; especially when it comes to issues relating to
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In order to halt this downward spiral in humanity, one can
engage in celebration by way of acknowledging the past. Celebrate
black history and any other kind of history that documents and
illustrates the disregarded values of America that led to the
nationwide changes we see today. Together we can effectively
encourage people to stay woke, inspired, and consciously advocate for
the oppressed. Being that this is law school and we are all training to
be advocates, let us take the time to understand what being an
advocate in today’s society means. Reality is not black and white,
neither is justice, and neither is right and wrong. So come to terms
with the fact that humanity has only fluctuated and never reached the
mythical preferable peak where it is significantly better than past
generations. Then get involved and help clean up. Once again, if
better days are to come, real action must take place.
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Annual Diversity Dinner
“Around the World”
Buffet
Wednesday, March 1 at 6PM- Fifth Floor Commons
Come celebrate diversity and inclusion at Suffolk Law with a very special
and delicious “Around the World” buffet sponsored by:
The SBA Diversity Committee, several student affinity groups and the Dean
of Students Office.
Some insightful remarks will be given by our very own
Judge Isaac Borenstein
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Suffolk Law Library’s
New MCLE OnlinePass
Offers Never-Before-Seen
Access to Webcasts,
eBooks, and Professional
Development Plans
By Liza Rosenof, Legal Research
Librarian
Wedged inconspicuously in an alley
between Stoddard’s Fine Food & Ale and
the snazzy new restaurant, Yvonne’s—a
mere stone’s throw away from Suffolk
Law—lies the headquarters of a venerable
local institution you may not have heard
of: MCLE New England. This non-profit
organization, established in 1969, has
dedicated itself to providing
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Massachusetts attorneys with training for
their continued professional growth.
Governed by a board of trustees and
assisted by curriculum advisory
committees addressing nine distinct areas
of legal practice, MCLE focuses its
mission on applied law, meaning
“practical, highly concrete training for
attorneys in the essential elements of
professional practice.”
Its more than 160 practice
manuals, written by experienced
practitioners with expertise in the
relevant field, adorn the desks and
bookshelves of law offices across the
region. Perhaps even more importantly,
MCLE regularly offers programming inperson and online—around 250 such
sessions annually—with upcoming
programs including “A Kaleidoscopic
Perspective on the Impact of Divorce,”
“Title Insurance for Commercial
Transactions,” and “Hanging Your
Shingle.” Attendance at these programs
usually costs between $150 and $300.
While these are great prices for what they
offer, it’s not exactly chump change for
most students and newly minted
attorneys. But do not despair; Suffolk
Law students now have unprecedented
access to MCLE’s various offerings.
The Law Library already had
access to MCLE’s vast collection of
practice guides online through Westlaw,
Lexis Advance, and Bloomberg Law, in
addition to about 100 publications in print
on reserve. Recently, though, the Law
Library negotiated with MCLE to provide
access to a veritable treasure trove of
materials through its OnlinePass,
including: all live MCLE webcasts (over
200 a year); unlimited online access to the
entire archive of MCLE on-demand
webcasts and downloadable mp3 audio
programs (over 500); unlimited access to
MCLE’s entire collection of practice
manuals both in a searchable online
library or as individual downloadable
eBooks; and, curated professional
development plans that take you unit by
unit through the fundamentals of a
particular practice area.
Rick Buckingham, Director of the Law
Library and Information Resources at
Suffolk, said, “We are very excited that
our students now have access to this
expanded suite of MCLE resources,
which we know attorneys throughout
New England value highly and use
regularly. These resources can help
students develop the practice-ready skills
that are crucial for new attorneys.”
To access the MCLE OnlinePass,
simply head to the Law Library website at
www.suffolk.edu/law/library. From there,
click “Research Databases” on the lower
left-hand side of the screen. Choose
“MCLE OnlinePass” from the list of
links. You can access the full subscription
at school and off-campus. Suffolk Law
alumni are welcome to access the
OnlinePass when they visit the Law
Library.
If you have any questions, contact
the Reference Desk at
lawref@suffolk.edu or 617-5738516.
Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life,
He puts the greatest strength in the world behind him.
It's something we call heart power.
Once a man has made this commitment, nothing will stop him short of success.
-Vince Lombardi
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Dicta Executive Board
Nicholas Williams
Editor-in-Chief
Samantha LeBrun
Managing Editor
Keicha Mora
Secretary
Ashley Malans
Head Copy Editor
Stephanie Herbello
News Editor
Alison Farquhar
Copy Editor
Elizabeth Green
Opinion Columnist
David Feldman
Layout Editor/Director of Public Relations
Staff Writers:
Kierra MacDougall
Desiree Tembo
Rachel Seed
Bayley Weese
A school newspaper of the people, by the people, and for the people. Dicta is your source for news, stories and opinions of immediate concern
to the Suffolk Law student body. The content we provide is a reflection of the community involvement we all crave but don’t have the time to
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all facets of this paper. Dicta does not discriminate against any persons and complies with the university policies concerning equality. Dicta
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Sometimes you will never know the
value of a moment until it becomes a
memory. --Theodor Seuss Geisel
Hardship often prepare ordinary people
for an extraordinary destiny.
--C.S. Lewis
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SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY ALERT: COMMUNITY ADVISORY
By Desiree Tembo, Staff Writer
30 full-time security officers
5 full-time non-sworn dispatchers
manager of campus card services
systems administrator
office coordinator
student security workers
Photo courtesy of The Suffolk Voice
“The Boston Police are investigating stabbings at Tremont Street
and Stuart St. Please stay away from the area.” –09/25/16
“The Citizens Bank on the first floor of 73 Tremont St has just been
robbed. Please avoid police presence in front of the building. Party
fled the area.” –10/06/16
Suffolk University police
officers wear dark blue
shirts, have a Suffolk
University Police badge,
and wear the seal of the
Commonwealth of
Massachusetts on their collar. They carry a baton and
pepper spray. Suffolk University security officers wear light
blue shirts and have a Suffolk University Security badge.
They do not carry weapons or pepper spray.
-Courtesy of Suffolk University Police Website
We understand it can be very difficult for a person who is a victim,
accosted by two individuals at the corner of West Street and observes, or has knowledge of a criminal act to report it to the
authorities. However, in the event of an emergency situation we ask
Mason Street. One of the individuals stated that he had a
that you immediately contact the SUPD by calling 617-573-8111 or
gun and proceeded to rob one of the students. The
you may also call 911 to reach the Boston Police Department. If it is a
individual did not show a gun. The two individuals fled
non-emergency safety related matter, you can report it to the SUPD
away from West Street on Mason Street. SUPD and Boston by calling 617-573-8333.
PD were unable to locate the individuals.”—11/15/16.
We can work towards a safer Suffolk community with everyone’s
cooperation.
Most of us have seen these types of safety alerts from the
University regarding incidents that have occurred near campus. They
If you do not feel safe walking alone, you may contact the Suffolk
serve as a warning to us, of the multiple crimes that take place right
University Police Department’s escort service. They will walk with
outside our law school’s doors. Recently, we have heard accounts
you to and from any Suffolk University building, as well as the
from students regarding incidents of which they have been victim to
entrance of the Park Street T Station, Charles River Parking Garage,
enroute to or from the law school.
Sanford Parking Garage, Center Plaza Parking Garage, and the
In the coming weeks, Dicta will be reaching out to the student body Government Center T Station. You may request this service through
the LiveSafe App (download from the App Store or Google Play) or
to assess your personal sense of safety near or on school property in
you may call SUPD in advance at (617) 573-8333 and a uniformed
an effort to determine what, if anything, can be done to increase our
officer will meet you at your location.
overall sense of safety.
“At about 7:00p.m. two Suffolk University students were
PHOTO COURTSEY OF BOSTON GLOBE 9/25/16
Firefighters sprayed blood off the sidewalk after Sunday’s
early morning stabbing on Tremont Street in the Theater
Suffolk University Police (SUPD) and Security staff consists of:
28 full-time police officers
District. Seven people were wounded, police say.
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“Wisdom is knowing we are all One. Love is what it feels like and compassion is what it acts like”. –Ethan Walker III
when it becomes necessary. You have to power through as best you
can.
You're not always going to be your best, but you can try. I think that's
all anyone can ask of you. I am reminded of Maryland attorney, M.
Cristina Gutierrez (who many of you know as Adnan Syed’s first
lawyer from the Serial fame), who was disbarred, in part, as a result
of putting work before her failing health and mismanaging
cases. You fail your client when you fail yourself.
So how do you function in spite of yourself? You get out of bed. You
talk to people. You do what you need to do, not out of desire or duty
but out of necessity. You try your best to take care of yourself, even
when every ounce of your being says, "I can't." You find your support
both at home and at work. Our work is not done completely alone, nor
should it be. You don't have to martyr yourself for every case, but that
doesn't mean you shouldn't try your hardest. You talk to a counselor
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to try and figure out a plan to get through.
People's lives do depend on us, and as lawyers, we should not take
that lightly. I am not saying, "Be lazy! It's all pointless, so just wing it
By Ashley Malans, Head Copy Editor
and hope for the best!" I am saying that sometimes you have to fight,
and sometimes you have to walk away when the burden is too great.
It's not really a rare occurrence that any given semester is difficult for I don't know about you, but I've got a little more fight left in me.
a lot of students. I find myself in the midst of one of the most difficult
years on record, and I've found it incredibly hard to keep my work
separate from my personal life. I'm not going to lie, I've let myself
drop the ball at times.
So, I'm sure you're thinking, how are you going to tell us how to do
better when you have clearly not been doing better? Good question. I
don't have an answer for that yet, but I will try.
I think as lawyers we are often encouraged by a culture of overwork:
that unless we are sleepless and caffeine-fueled and smoking 4 packs
a day to cope—we aren't doing our jobs right. I think I have struggled
with this the most this semester, this guilt that I am not doing
everything for my clients, even though I'm doing the best to my
ability given my physical and mental health this year.
What I think I've learned is that you have to learn your own limits.
You have to know yourself well enough to not take on what you
cannot finish. You have to admit to yourself that you need help. You
have to seek that help, be it from colleagues or elsewhere. You have
to be upfront with your clients about what you can do and step back
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How To Function In Spite Of Yourself
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Forget yesterday – it has already forgotten you.
Don’t sweat tomorrow – you haven’t even met.
Instead, open your eyes and your heart to a
truly precious gift – Today.
--Steve Maraboli
Update on DAPL
By: Rachel Seed, Staff Writer
What’s been done?
Months and countless protests
have passed, but DAPL is still making
news, which for a law student and
particularly anyone interested in Federal
Indian Law, has been history in the
making.
Last year, the Standing Rock Sioux
Tribe sued the United States Army Corps
of Engineers to block the approval and
construction of the Dakota Access
Pipeline (DAPL). DAPL is a $3.7billion
project which would carry 470,000 barrels
of oil daily from North Dakota to Illinois.
Both the company behind the pipeline,
Energy Transfer, and President Trump,
insist that the pipeline will boost local
economies and create thousands of jobs.
However, the Sioux Nation views
the pipeline, or the “black snake,” as they
refer to it, as an “encroachment onto their
national heritage,” as well as a threat to
their main water source. Though the
pipeline runs half a mile outside of the
reservation, the Tribe emphasizes that it
would destroy sites of historical and
cultural significance.
As a result, the Sioux Nation filed
a Motion for Preliminary Injunction back
in September of last year. The Complaint
articulated that DAPL would threaten their
“environmental and economic wellbeing,
as well their cultural resources.”
Normally, domestic oil pipelines do not
require general approval from the federal
government, and DAPAL was no
exception (because 99% of its route is
beneath private land).
However, construction activates in
federally regulated waters, as is the case
here, need to be allowed under a permit.
DAPL activities were permitted under
Nationwide Permit 12, but the Sioux
Nation alleges that the U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers violated multiple federal
statutes including the National
environmental Policy Act; the Clean
Water Act, and the National Historical
Preservation Act, in doing so.
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Judge James Boasberg, who has
been the presiding judge over this case,
denied the injunction on the grounds that
the Tribe failed to meet its burden to
demonstrate that the court could “prevent
damage to their cultural resources by
enjoining the DAPL-related permitting.”
By mid-November, the
Department of Justice, Department of the
Interior and Department of the Army said
DAPL would not be authorized until it
was determined whether reconsideration
was needed over previous decisions
regarding the Lake Oahe site (part of the
Missouri River System) under the
National Environmental Policy Act
(NEPA) and other applicable statutes. As
of early December the project had been
halted, much to the Tribes’ and protestor’s
relief.
Just this past week, Judge
Boasberg denied a request by the Sioux
and other tribes, seeking a temporary
restraining order to halt construction of the
final link in the pipeline. They argue that
“tribal officials hadn't been properly
consulted and that cultural sites were in
immediate peril.”
Another hearing is scheduled for
Feb. 27, as the Tribes seek another
injunction ordering the Army Corps to
withdraw the easement.
Moving Forward
Just how safe are pipelines?
What Now?
On January 24th of this year,
President Trump signed a memo calling
for the expedited review and approval of
the construction and operation of DAPL,
including the grant of a final easement. He
also approved permits under the Clean
Water Act and the Rivers and Harbors
Act. President Trump expressed his belief
that “[the] construction and operation of
[a] lawfully permitted pipeline
infrastructure serve[s] the national
interest.”
At this time, the pipe only needs
to cross beneath Lake Oahe, to connect a
final 1,100foot gap in the 1,170-mile pipeline.
http://cdn.countercurrentnews.com/
The federal Pipeline and
Hazardous Materials Safety
Administration as well as most pipeline
companies maintain their safety records,
stating that “it is far safer to move oil and
natural gas in an underground pipe than in
rail cars or trucks, which can crash and
create huge fires.
However, in 2013 a Tesoro
Logistics pipeline in North Dakota broke
and spilled 865,000 gallons of oil, while in
2010, an Enbridge Energy pipeline spilled
more than 843,000 gallons into the
Kalamazoo River, resulting in a cleanup
that lasted years and cost more than a
billion dollars. Furthermore, a 2012
examination of pipeline safety reported
that more than half of the country’s
pipelines were at least 50 years old.
Regardless, it would seem that this
administration’s policy on transporting oil
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is a “pick your poison” type scenario in
regards to environmental and human risks.
“A pipeline is the cheapest and quickest
method of doing the job.
http://www.commondreams.org/site
What can you do to help?
Sign a Petition
https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-dakota-accesspipeline
Send supplies
http://sacredstonecamp.org/supply-list/
http://sacredstonecamp.org/faq/#camping
https://www.amazon.com/registry/wishlist/196PVIWRD
X1M4?tag=thehuffingtop-20
Donate to Protestors’ Legal Defense Fund
https://fundrazr.com/d19fAf
Call
North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple, at 701-328-2200.
The White House, at 202-456-1111.
Energy Transfer Partners, the pipeline owner ― Lee
Hanse, executive vice president, 210-403-6455;
Glenn Emery, vice president, 210-403-6762; Michael
(Cliff) Waters, lead analyst, 713-989-2404.
Army Corps of Engineers, which issued the permit
allowing construction of the pipeline, even though it
would cross under the Missouri River within a half-mile
of the Sioux reservation boundary, at 202-761-5903
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Boston Youth Activists Demand Increased Job Funding and Juvenile
Criminal Justice Reform
(Photo Credit: David Feldman)
"The Youth Job Coalition is asking Gov. Charlie Baker for $13.4 million to fund 5,000 year-round youth
jobs. The group is also asking for the criminal records of youth offenders to be expunged once they turn
18 years old," Bodden, Shawn, WBUR News: Boston. WBUR News: Boston, 23 Feb. 2017. Web. 27 Feb. 2017
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Immigration Law Forum
Immigration Law Forum:
From Left to Right
Kathy Sparaco; Ragini Shal; Jean Joyce-Brady
Letter to the Editor
To The Editor,
I am very pleased to learn that Dicta is being revived, and wish you
every success in publishing articles and information of interest to the
Law School community. There are always issues arising that affect
our students’ experience here that deserve to be aired by the press. If
your reporters ask around you will find them, and I hope your articles
will provide useful information to the student body, faculty, and
administration. Such issues may be about the curriculum, about
clinical and pro bono activities, journals and moot court activities,
about faculty and student activities, about academic regulations,
alumni activities and many other issues.
Dicta can also be a forum for opinions on matters of interest to the
Law School community and the wider world as well.
Faculty can also contribute articles about initiatives under
consideration, their own work, and other matters. You should not be
shy about approaching faculty members to help as well in reviving
this important source for news and constructive community
discussion.
“Bon chance.” I look forward to reading Dicta again. Professor, Joe
Glannon
A Word From The
President
Daniel Hahn, Suffolk University Law
School Student Bar Association (SBA)
President
-Surviving the hardest part of the yearI was thinking about what to write—
what topic I could go into that might be
helpful from a 3L perspective—but there has
just been so much else to worry about that it
has been hard to
find the time.
Clinic on one
hand, the SBA on
the other, work,
classes, and all
that balanced with
whatever kind of
life, if any, I’m
trying to have
outside of school;
it’s a lot.
Of course, I don’t
have to tell any of
you that. We’ve got our folks on Journal out
here. We’ve got our avid club members.
We’ve got people applying to FYSIP, looking
for summer internships, and getting ready for
the next trial competition; if there’s ever been
a community that I don’t have to explain
being busy to, that community is Suffolk
Law. That is exactly what I want to talk
about: being busy. Being busy during the
hardest time of the year, to be specific, and I
really do think these next few weeks leading
up to Spring Break are the hardest time of the
academic year.
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Consider this with me: it’s far enough
into classes that grades are going to start to
matter. We can’t be getting behind on
reading. Can’t be falling behind on those
weekly quizzes (if you’re in the unfortunate
collection of folks who have those), and we
have to start thinking about getting started on
those outlines for our finals. We’re in the
thick of it, but neither are we close to the end.
We are looking for summer jobs and
internships but far enough away where we
won’t be hearing back for a few weeks. This
is the period of
just far enough to worry but not far enough to
have any resolutions. Now, sure finals are
tough, but I’ll take a week-of-preparationfollowed-up-with-a-test over a few-weeks-ofwondering-if-I-need-to-start-looking-for-anew-apartment-because-my-landlord-mightdecide-to-raise-next-year’s-rent, any day.
This is the toughest part of the year
because now is when the work is due. Now is
when we need to get focused and balance out
our lives, but it won’t be until much later
when any of that pays off. It’s easy to let all
this stress get to us. It’s easy to start to fray a
bit at the edges and find it harder and harder
to get up out of bed and get to class, or to our
morning job, or onto the T, or what have you.
But let me tell you, from a 3L getting ready to
D I C T A
graduate who is just as busy as you and who
understands completely: it gets better.
I want to stress here that I’m saying
better, not easier. The work doesn’t really
stop coming. It doesn’t get any more pleasant
waking up, chugging coffee, and getting out
the door (feel free to insert whatever order of
morning ritual plus transit applies to you). But
it does get better.
There’s something about being in this
community as the year wears on that first
feels exhausting but then it gets comfortable.
It becomes a routine. Trust me when I say
teachers feel it too, administration feels it too,
and it’s like this bubble that builds and builds
and right around now it bursts and it feels like
we’re all the most stressed we’ve ever been,
and we’re all alone in being the most stressed
we’ve ever been, and we just need a break
now and can’t go on but we do.
I saw it 1L year. I saw it 2L year. And
I feel it now in 3L year. Law school is hard.
Law school is a major strain on us not only
academically but socially and mentally. But
every year around this time, just when it feels
like it’s as hard as it will get and those
thoughts start churning of “maybe this wasn’t
for me,” we break through and we just keep
going.
One of my good friends in 1L year—
and during this time when we were all feeling
the Stress (the stress, as in proper noun,
capital ‘s’, kick your ass kind of stress)—had
made a comment that really stuck with me
about dealing with the stress: we’re not made
of glass. I think about that a lot when
deadlines start piling up and responsibilities
start to feel impossible to manage. We can
bend and adjust without breaking, we aren’t
glass, and just because we have these hard
moments doesn’t mean we aren’t cut out for
this experience.
This is the hardest time of the year.
Too late to push anything off and too soon to
expect any results; but it doesn’t last forever.
Each year, in my experience, this mid-spring
semester season of stress comes on hard. But
without fail, each year it has also evaporated
as quickly as it has come. There’s something
about being in a community where every
member is straining as hard as they can that
can actually make the strain seem not so bad
after all.
So, while I certainly can’t do anything
for your workload, nor can I tell anyone if
their summer job will pan out, I can say:
things will get better, and I hope that is at
least a little bit of help.
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Suffolk Law School
Academic Calendar
MARCH
13-17 Monday - Friday
Spring recess
17
MONDAY
Patriots Day - University Holiday
18
TUESDAY
Monday class schedule
22
SATURDAY
Class make-up day
26
WEDNESDAY
Spring 2017 classes end
Dear students, staff, faculty, colleagues, and
administrators:
APRIL
27-28 Thursday - Friday
Reading days
1
MONDAY
Spring 2017 examinations begin
10
WEDNESDAY
Spring 2017 examinations end
11
THURSDAY
Examination make-up day
MAY
20-21 Saturday - Sunday
Commencement weekend
22
MONDAY
Summer session begins
29
MONDAY
Memorial Day - University
Holiday
Suffolk Law School
Calendar of Events
We are pleased to share that Dicta is expanding
rapidly in terms of student/faculty interest,
newspaper content variety, staff writers, board
members, and media outreach (online website/print
editions, twitter @SuffolkDicta, Facebook etc.).
In fact, Dicta’s February Edition will be available
on Tuesday, February 28th on our new, mobilefriendly, website:
www.TheSuffolkLawPaper.com
Furthermore, Dicta is proud to announce that we
are going back to print in April. At its core, the
2016-2017 academic year has been largely about
restoring Dicta to its former glory by way of
encouraging student and faculty involvement, as
well as joining arms with various organizations
surrounding Suffolk Law School.
Dicta was established more than 40 years ago by
law students, was the winner of several awards, and
enjoyed a tremendous degree of prestige. However,
over the years, Dicta’s vision was forgotten. To that
end, we are in the process of reaffirming our vision,
presence, and purpose this academic year.
With a newfound interest, constitution, energetic
staff, and proactive approach, it is our ultimate goal
to ensure its place for generations to come. Our goal
here is to reach beyond Suffolk Law’s walls. Rather
than simply making a comeback, Dicta is aiming to
roar back, exhibiting fresh qualities of resilience and
vigor.
Wednesday, March 1
All Day -
Due date to petition for Division Transfer
12:00 AM - 12:00 AM Concentration Completion Forms Due
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Rhode Island Alumni Reception
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Diversity Dinner
Thursday, March 2
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Transgender People and the Law
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Clark Appellate Advocacy Competition Final
7:30 PM - 11:00 PM
Moot Court: Clark Competition Reception
Tuesday, March 7
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Holler Law Firm Lecture
Reviving Suffolk Law School’s only newspaper
means that we need, students alumni, faculty, and
administrators to submit letters to the editor and
articles for publication. Dicta is happy to print, or
post on our website, all in-house announcements or
advertisements for Suffolk clubs, organizations, and
law-school related events.
With that in mind, we invite you all to check out
our website:www.TheSuffolkLawPaper.com check
out our online edition on February 28th, be on the
lookout for our printed edition in April and consider
contributing to Dicta to bolster the sense of
community a small law school needs to thrive. Once
you have viewed it, we ask that you share with your
friends, family, and colleagues—near or far,
wherever they are, and ask them to further share for
it takes a village to reach our ultimate goals of
restoration.
Yours truly,
The Publishing Board of Dicta
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VOL. XVI - NO. 2
MARCH 2016
Deans get
an earful
at forum
O
11 days in Havana:
By (Ret.) Judge Isaac Borenstein
n the one hand, Cuba is in the
news all the time it seems. On
the other hand, as 24 law students
learned recently, there are a lot of stereotypes and misconceptions about the island
and its people.
This is one of the best lessons at any
level; seeing for yourself is believing, or
at least discovering. In a unique educational experience, these 24 students, with
O
the participation of Prof. Elizabeth Trujillo and visiting professor and retired Judge
Isaac Borenstein, spent 11 days in Havana
with 5 days of classes at the University
of Havana Law School, joined by Cuban
law students and professors. The subject
this past January, during the intersession
course, was Cuban economic changes, the
business environment, contract law and
practice.
Whereas the media reports in the U.S.
Cuban native reflects during
visit to island with students
from Havana — including during President Obama’s recent historic visit — appear to focus on “Havana is collapsing
and Cubans live in slums; only old American cars are running; the island is frozen
in time,” and other “catchy phrases,” our
law students were able to get to know the
beautiful and interesting Cuban capital by
moving around it, often alone, without trying to hold on to limited perspectives.
Continued on page 5
E Former DA is new Suffolk
general counsel. Page 7
Inside:
Suffolk University Law School visiting professor (and retired judge) Isaac Borenstein lectures to students during January trip to Cuba.
By Melanie Maynor
n Feb. 2, 2016, the SBA Student Issues and Concerns Committee
hosted a Q & A event with Suffolk
University Law School, Dean Andrew Perlman and Dean of Students, Laura Ferrari.
The event was open to all law school students, with a variety of questions raised.
Dean Perlman began by stating that he
finds being dean of the law school gratifying and is very positive about the school’s
future. He reminded the audience that prior to being our dean, he has been on the
faculty for the past 14 years, and that his
emphasis as dean is on ensuring practical
training for the students.
The topics raised included questions
about schedules for evening students versus day students, questions regarding the
current issue between Suffolk University’s
president and the Board of Trustees, to
ranking the law school.
Q: Evening students are frustrated over
course scheduling and final exam schedules. Scheduling for evening students does
not seem to take into consideration their
work schedules.
Continued on page 4
E QLA panel reflects on civil
rights challenges. Page 9
E Study abroad proves a valuable experience Page 8
E Asian-Pacific American
Law Assoc. president honored by magazine. Page 11
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Section letters are no mystery
W
By Shakesha Coleman
hen I arrived two Augusts ago
and discovered that I was in Section “1D,” I thought, “What does
the ‘D’ mean?” I wondered if the ““D”
meant what Ds in school usually mean
— that the person being given the “D” is
somehow less adequate. Were Section D
students the last to be offered admission?
Were we the section with the lowest GPAs
or LSAT scores?
Finally, I asked a second-year student,
who happened to be in a “higher” lettered
section, if there was any meaning to the
section letter designations. Much to my
chagrin, she said that there was, and that
the letters corresponded to attributes such
as GPA, LSAT score, whether or not students were granted scholarships, and personality.
This person told me that students were
grouped according to personality, and that
the decision-makers alternated the letter
that corresponded to the section in which
Type A students were placed — so that
one year Type A students would be in Section A, another year they would be in Section C, and so forth.
This student also informed me that she
had been given this information by an official source, but refused to reveal who
or what the source was. Believe me, I
asked. Later, another student from this
same “higher” lettered section told me
that some sections get a more challenging courseload, and that she and another
student from her section had asked to be
transferred to a “lower” section due to the
workload. (Is transferring between sections even allowed?)
I found this hard to believe, but what
did I know? This person had been here
for a whole year before me — and she
said her information was official! I struggled with this idea for obvious reasons,
but mainly because many of my 1D classmates seemed so smart. (I had also met
some “higher” lettered section schoolmates who did not seem so smart.)
At least two of my section mates were
offered coveted OCI positions — one of
which was offered two positions and had
to choose which one he wanted! (He “settled” for being an associate at Ropes and
Gray, LLP.) So clearly, “higher” lettered
sections do not have a monopoly on success. Law school is hard enough without
the added pressure of thinking your section letter is a scarlet letter concerning
your potential.
Finally, I decided to speak with a
school official who would know better
than anyone what section letter designations really mean. I decided that no matter what I was told about what section letter designations actually mean, I deserve
to be here. I earned my acceptance letter
just like everybody else, and my grades,
GPA, and LSAT score are not an indicator
of my worth as a person or a legal scholar.
Apparently, I am not the only person
to have wondered about the meaning behind section letter designations. Thirtysix percent of the students who responded to a survey about their perception of
section letter designations indicated that
they, too, wondered about the meaning
of section letters. Almost half of the students surveyed admitted to not knowing if
the designations mean anything, but more
students thought the designations have
meaning than those that believed there is
no meaning.
Thirty-two percent of surveyed students revealed that they have discussed
designation meanings with others. Forty-two percent have heard others discussing what the designations mean. Most students said that section letter designations
were never explained to them. Thirty percent revealed that another student had informed them that section letter designations are a function of past achievement
such as GPA, LSAT score, and scholarship achievement. Thirty-four percent of
surveyed students agreed that students in
some sections are exposed to more rigorous content than others.
A meeting with the Associate Administrative Dean of Enrollment and Registrar
herself, revealed some surprising news.
{Drumroll..........}
The only goal the school has in mind
when creating sections is to make each
section as diverse as the entire school.
The school tries to keep sections diverse
in terms of race, gender, and ethnicity,
and tries to maintain equity among students and faculty.
For instance, twenty-four percent of
Suffolk Law School’s students are people of color. The school attempts to reflect
this ratio in each section. Academic credentials and scholarship attainment are
not considered when sections are created. When students are admitted, it is not
always known whether or not the student
will get a scholarship.
Further, sections are put together after tuition is due, and are filled up right
until the first week of classes. Students
are offered admission at various times, so
groupings based on such detailed characteristics are not possible. There actually
is no discussion about the sections and the
criteria for placement.
After chuckling at the idea that she
and others actually have time to measure and fawn over the personalities and
past achievements of admitted students
and correlate that information to potential
success, Dean Lorraine Cove reminded
me that students in the “higher” lettered
sections fit into the grading curve just like
everyone else, and suggested that faculty could not follow the mandatory grading
curve if everyone in any section deserved
the highest possible grade.
Dean Cove encourages students to “separate your character and integrity from
how you perform on exams,” and not to label oneself by the grade received on an
examination. A grade of C does not make
you a “C” person. Dean Cove informs that
there is a strong correlation between firstyear grades and bar success, advises all
students to register for bar related courses and to take advantage of all the available bar resources Suffolk offers, and insists that the entire Suffolk community is
committed to student success.
According to Dean Cove, a number of
alumni identify their own law school experiences with classmates and faculty
based on their first year section, and tend
to mentor new students who are similarly sectioned. This is likely to be the only
manner in which section life may lead to a
distinction.
Sections are not compared to each other. There is no indication that students
from one section tend to have a higher bar
passage or employment rate than others.
So there you have it: Section groupings
have nothing to do with perceived ability;
it’s just about keeping each section even
and diverse.
I guess in a place like law school —
with its grading curves and competition —
it’s easy to create or be attracted to a scenario that puts you on top or distinguishes you from the pack. That, and our society teaches us to associate the letters A
through F with “grades.” But here at Suffolk, greatness is expected from all of us.
Special thanks to Dean Lorraine Cove for
taking the time to speak with me about section
letter designations, and to those of you who
took the time to complete the survey!
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Editor-In-Chief
Shakesha Coleman
Art Directors
Gamze Yalcin
Craig Thaddeus Martin
Contributors
Prof. Michael Rustad
Prof. Thomas Koenig
Melanie Maynor
Bridgett Sandusky
Anthony Hugar
Judge Isaac Borenstein (ret.)
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community, existing solely to
help foster a sense of community
through communication. The goal of
Dicta is to educate, inform, enlighten, and entertain the student body
through outstanding reporting and
editorials on news, events, trends,
sports, arts, food, and popular culture.
The opinions and views expressed in Dicta are not necessarily those of the Dicta staff and are
not the opinions of Suffolk University Law School or the student body.
Suffolk Law School students control and conduct all facets of this
paper. Dicta does not discriminate
against any persons and complies
with the university policies concerning equality.
Dicta encourages students, alumni, faculty, and administrators to
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should include the author’s name,
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Deans respond to student
questions at issues forum
Continued from page 1
A: Dean Perlman and Dean Ferrari
stated that they are open to suggestions.
The school tries to make the schedule as
fair as possible. The deans said that they
will work one-on-one with evening students to try to resolve any issues.
Q: Above the Law’s article that accused Suffolk Law School of turning a
back room in its library into a “dungeon”
for Suffolk’s Client Services Innovation
Program.
A: Dean Perlman stated that he was
disappointed with the article. The key
value of the program is to give students
insight to real world law practice with
technology. Dean Perlman did state that
the program is still waiting for its first
project to come.
Q: How does the recent battle between
Suffolk University president McKenna
and Suffolk University Board of Trustees affect the stability of the school as a
whole? Will it distract from the improvements that the school has already made?
A: Dean Perlman stated that he was
disappointed that the battle was being
played out in the press, and that it is a
distraction. However, he believes that the
challenges won’t have any effect on the
emphasis of the law schoo’’s long-term vision. He also reassured the audience that
all the prior reductions in the number of
admitted students had been planned and
were purposeful. He ensured high quality
credentialed student, and envisioned better bar passage rates.
Q: Is tuition going up after the 2015-16
school year?
A: Dean Perlman reassured the audience that he is trying to keep tuition flat.
He stated that the school’s bills were being paid by reducing expenses, reducing
faculty and receiving money from the use
of the fifth floor by the Sawyer Business
School.
Q: Are there any plans to address the
noise issues in the library from the fifth
floor?
A: Dean Ferrari encouraged student
who were seeking more quiet to move to
the quieter side of the library.
Q: What was being done about the law
school’s low bar passage rates?
A: Dean Perlman agreed that the bar
passage rates are too low and is current-
From left: Jenna Borkoski, director of the Committee for Student Issues and Concerns; Dean Perlman; Dean Ferrari; Breanna Lynn Arsenault; Melanie Maynor.
ly looking at proposals that would bring
them up.
Q: What is happening between Suffolk
University president McKenna and the
Board of Trustees?
A: Dean Perlman told the audience
that the audience (students) knew as
much as he did. He said that he was doing his best to keep out of the situation,
is deeply disappointed that the battle was
being played out in the press, as he believed that it should have been kept behind closed doors.
Q: What is being done to address the
problems with the Financial Aid Office?
A: The deans agreed that the transitions at the school, including the Financial Aid Office, had not gone as smooth as
they could have gone.
Q: What is the school doing to address
the lack of diversity at Suffolk University
Law School, with regards to students and
faculty?
A: Dean Perlman agreed he doesn’t see
enough diversity at the school, either in
the student body or the faculty. He commented that faculty diversity is accomplished through hiring and the school has
not done much hiring lately.
Q: Is the school doing anything to increase summer placements for 2L’s and
3L’s, something similar to Northeastern
Law School’s co-op program?
A: Dean Perlman agreed that the
school could do more, and stated that he
was open to ideas. He believes that smaller classes will help, and that the school is
close to being able to guarantee that each
student will get some type of practical experience while in school.
Q: The school needs to sponsor and
hold more events with alumni.
A: Dean Perlman agrees!
Q: Is there anything that the school is
planning to do to address the issue of separating out class schedules for evening
students and day students, respectively?
A: Dean Perlman said that with fewer
students come fewer classes. Dean Ferrari reiterated that she will work one-onone with a student to address scheduling
issues.
Q: Why is the law school not ranked?
A: Dean Perlman stated that he is not
sure why the law school is not ranked,
but noted that many of the school’s program are highly ranked.
The event concluded with Dean Perlman talking one-on-one with students
over food and beverages.
The Student Issues and Concerns
Committee thanks Dean Perlman and Dean
Ferrari for their participation in this event.
Mina’s List
founder to
relate story
Suffolk Women of Color Law Students
Association “Hearing Her Story” series is
a unique speaker series held throughout
the year which showcases the legal journeys of faculty, professors, judges, attorneys, alumni, and community leaders.
Through these events we hope to encourage, inspire, and empower women of color law students and others in our Suffolk
community.
Past speakers, such as Dean Camille
Nelson and Professor Elizabeth Trujillo,
have not only shared their experiences as
women of color in the legal field, but also
their perspectives as members of a minority community
fighting for
justice in
their own
unique ways
to be able to
contribute to
the larger diversity initiative.
The next featured speaker in the
“Hearing Her Story” series will be Tanya E. Henderson, Esq., who will relate her
experiences in “Dynamic Women Transforming Society” from 6 to 8 p.m. on
Wednesday, April 20, 2016 in the first floor
function room.
Henderson, SULS JD’01, is the founder and executive director of Mina’s List.
Henderson was a policy director for Women’s Action for New Directions, the U.S.
National Director for the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom,
a legal consultant for the Ministry of Social Affairs in Lebanon on issues of gender-based violence and women’s political
participation, and part of a research team
in Ethiopia working with Harvard Medical School to research and draft policy on
gender inequality, economic development,
and health.
Her work in international human rights
and empowering women across the globe
inspires us to also look toward similar
contributions in our future legal careers.
�DICTA / MARCH 2016
Introducing the Asian Pacific
American Law Students Association
Members of the Asian Pacific American Law Students Assoc. executive board at Suffolk University
Law School include: president Cherie Ching, vice president Winnie Choi, treasurer Linda Vo, secretary
Da Eun Lee, inter-APALSA chair Ramon Livingston, community service chair Kwok Tse, diversity cochair Jolethia Rogers, diversity co-chair Xiayun Summer Zhou and PR/social media chair Linchi Liang.
TOP LEFT: Members of the
Asian Pacific American Law Students Association take a dim
sum study breaks in Chinatown.
BELOW LEFT: General Meeting
and Green Project Presentation
before the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association.
APALSA is organized to articulate and promote the academic and professional needs and
goals of the Asian Pacific American law students at Suffolk University Law School. The group
serves to instill a greater awareness in the Asian Pacific American attorney and law student
of the needs of the Asian Pacific American community and encourages the membership to
commit resources to respond
effectively to those needs. Suffolk University Law School’s
APALSA chapter is all inclusive
and open to any student regardless of racial or ethnic background.
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Cuban visit an eye-opener
Continued from page 1
Unlike the typical visitor, including
the media, Suffolk’s law students stayed
in Cuban homes, walked all through
the neighborhoods, got around on every means of public transportation, ate
in restaurants where locals dined, had
classes on a lovely campus, and more.
Suffolk’s students, as one would hope
any traveler would, went to Havana to
listen, to learn, to understand, and to
exchange in mutually respectful ways;
they were not there looking for “catchy”
headlines. As a result, these 24 students
came back full of knowledge, very affected, full of respect and affection for their
new Cuban friends. The course in January 2016, like its original first seminar in
January 2015, was meant to provide substantive legal training, understanding
comparative systems of justice, and cultural and language growth.
These 24 lucky participants, like the
original 24 in January 2015, return with
greater legal knowledge, and new Cuban
friends. In addition, they have returned
with an appreciation of a people who
have learned to live with less; more connected, day to day, with one another than
in the U.S.; who show a remarkable generosity; committed to a national health
system and respected public schools and
universities; and a deep culture, museums, amazing music and dance.
As for a dilapidated city? Well, its partially true. There are parts of Havana
that are in great need of repairs — and
there are beautiful, well kept neighborhoods, with cafes and restaurants and
stores. The old U.S. cars? There are
many and its wonderful how these “wizards of invention” keep the cars running
... and, there are also new cars, Japa-
ABOVE: SULS professor Elizabeth Trujillo lectures to University of Havana Law School and
SULS students. BELOW: Students visit the International Court of Arbitration.
nese, Italian, German, and French cars.
Cuba has many problems facing it,
including an inefficient economy with
heavy state control and terribly low salaries. This has contributed to the creation
of an underground economy, including a
large number of sex workers. Likewise,
issues of a lack of freedom of expression and a lack of elections as we know
them, are real problems. No one, however, is starving in Cuba. Everyone is provided for — and, as the Cubans remind
us, “You Americans have your own serious problems.”
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Diversity my a%$!
By Shakesha Coleman
hen I walked into the foyer of Sargent Hall at the beginning of “Diversity and Inclusion Week” and
saw the banner announcing its inception,
I almost burst out laughing. I thought it
was funny that many of the people behind
some of the events, and many who claim
to support the concept, are themselves not
diverse and likely have very little understanding of what diversity even means.
My judgment is influenced by my personal experience here at Suffolk. I understood when I arrived at Suffolk Law
School, that networking would be important. But here at Suffolk, students seem to
require more than networking; they want
details. Apparently, I missed the memo
that extensive socialization is required, or
one risks being ostracized. Indeed, folks
here take greetings and meetings personally.
I think this is the case for two reasons. First, although we know how great
our school is, we are in the shadows of
our more highly regarded counterparts.
And not being ranked at all makes things
even worse. We don’t get the same reaction when we say “Suffolk Law School”
as when others say the name of their law
schools. Many of us are scared about how
Suffolk’s reputation will impact our chances at getting jobs.
Some students seem to have channeled
that fear into competing with others. For
most, this means sizing one’s self up to
others: Asking classmates how they’ve
fared on tests, asking how much others
are studying, asking around to see who already has a job lined up, observing what
time people arrive and leave Sargent Hall
to get an idea of how much time people
spend in the Building — hoping this will
be a clue about study habits, or using connections to look at classmates’ grades.
(Preoccupations that keep us from focusing on our own success.)
Greetings lead to meetings, and meetings lead to information, and information
is power. Denying people access to information builds fear of the unknown.
The second reason I think some students don’t tolerate diversity when it
comes to socialization is generational.
Most students here are millennials — super-sensitive beings who are used to being coddled, and who are not used to there
being a divide between themselves, authority, and anything they want, includ-
W
ACLU chief at Suffolk Law
ABOVE: Attorney Susan N. Herman, left, president of
the American Civil Liberties Union, chats with students
at reception following her lecture on terrorism in the
main courtroom at SULS. Atty. Herman’s lecture included discussion about the lawsuits the ACLU has brought
on behalf of people allegedly kidnapped, tortured, and
experimented upon under the auspices of the CIA. AT
RIGHT: Herman, right, is greeted by Eliza Bailey, editorin-chief of Suffolk University Law Review
Editorial
ing relationships. Millennials tend to have
grown up having had friendly relationships with their parents and authority,
and have come to expect that level of comradery with everyone — even without having earned it.
My punishment for not being more social has been more severe among other
people of color. The other memo I missed
apparently stated that I have a special obligation to socialize with people of color,
and to attend certain events. Yet, the folks
who have made it the clearest that I have
not held up my end of the bargain have
not exactly extended the hand of fellowship to me, either, and have gone so far as
to judge me for my introversion.
This actually is what concerns me the
most: the idea that when someone’s conduct does not match your desires or ego,
the disappointment becomes a license to
pathologize — the very thing the diversity
movement was designed to prevent — and
the very idea that kept the Enslavement
Process (the TransAtlantic Slave Trade)
in business. The Battle Royal comes to
mind. These were fights slave owners
forced slaves into after blindfolding them.
I’m particularly disappointed because
lawyers are supposed to be among the
smartest people in society — with unsurpassed critical thinking skills. Where is
the critical thought in pathologizing a person, situation, or response that simply
does not assuage one’s ego?
Diversity is a thought process, not superficial acts of solidarity. It requires that
people appreciate others respective of
their sameness or lack thereof, whether
we are talking about culture or personality. It is keeping an open mind about people and situations so that you do not miss
out on their value. It requires people to
suspend judgment and any preconceived
notions or prejudices they have to people
and situations that are different — or the
same — or that you perceive to be different or the same.
Diversity also requires a certain level of security and self esteem. The diverse
person is fearless of differences, even
when they feel they are competing with
others, and get an unexpected result because they are confident about their own
value and do not approach people and situations with a sense of entitlement.
�DICTA / MARCH 2016
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Former DA is new Suffolk U general counsel
ATTY. SHEILA CALKINS, a native of Peru
(Mass.), earned a nursing degree from Alfred
University before joining the Middlesex County
District Attorney’s Office. She recently was
named Suffolk University’s general counsel
and took a few moment’s of her time to
answer some questions from DICTA.
Enjoy law school
and try to learn
about many
different areas
of the law. Don’t
pigeonhole
yourself into
what you think
you want to do.
Where did you go to law school?
Willamette University in Oregon —
when I graduated from college I really wanted to move out to the Northwest.
I chose Willamette, loved the Northwest
but returned to the east coast one summer
between my first and second year of law
school and met my husband who was born
and raised in Boston area. The rest is history and I am now in Boston.
What was your first job out of law school?
I worked for a small medical malpractice/personal injury firm in Boston.
My undergrad degree was a BSN in nursing and it seemed like the right fit. When
I first started law school I was very interested in criminal law and torts. I feel
lucky I was able to try and work in both
areas over the years.
How did your interest in education law
come about (or did it)?
After working at the Attorney General’s office and working with others in the
area around higher education, it became
an interest — especially the work around
Title IX and the Dept. of Education/Office
of Civil Rights recommendations for universities and colleges. I felt my experience
in the District Attorneys’ offices and the
Attorney General’s office would be useful.
You were an ADA for Middlesex County (if
my research is correct). What advice do you
Atty. Sheila Calkins, Suffolk University’s new general counsel, advises law students to sharpen their
skills in Trial Practice, Appellate practice and Mock Trial competitions.
have for law students concerning making
opening and closing statements?
or closing, that will put a jury to sleep immediately!
Yes, I worked as an ADA for many
years. One of my mentor’s early on suggested that with any case, big or small,
you study all of the facts, determine who
your witnesses will be, speak with each
of them — sit back and ask yourself what
do I want to tell them in my closing argument? It may seem backwards at first
but it makes perfect sense when you think
about it — it helps you to determine what
facts you need to bring out from each witness, it helps you outline your opening and
it is the pathway you will use throughout
the trial. Oh, and never read your opening
What class or law school activity prepared you most for your tenure as an ADA?
STUDENTS ‘SHAKE IT UP’ AT CONFERENCE
Five Suffolk law students
attended the 3-day National Conference of Vietnamese American Attorneys. It was a fantastic learning experience
about the issues impacting Asian Pacific Americans in the legal community and in hopes of making a positive impact. As
one of our attendees Jolethia Rogers stated, the
theme of the conference
was really “Shake it up.”
meant I had to know and understand so
many different areas of the office. I feel
like that is similar to the GC position,
there are so many areas that GC is involved in as the University’s lawyer. Being a trial lawyer for so many years has
helped me become very organized and remain calm in stressful times. I also have
to say I never thought Contracts (1st year
law school) would become so useful again.
What do you see as being your primary
responsibility as General Counsel of Suffolk
University?
Representing the university and assisting the university community with issues
that arise.
What types of matters do you handle for
the university?
Areas of the law I deal with regularly
are contracts, IP, employment, non-profit regs, governance; I also work a lot with
the university police on different matters.
Feel free to tell us anything you think we
(law students) would want to know about
you or your role, or anything else!
What class, law school activity, or experience has prepared you the most for your
new position as General Counsel of Suffolk
University?
Enjoy law school and try to learn about
many different areas of the law. Don’t pigeonhole yourself into what you think you
want to do; that can change, so I recommend you try and get as broad an experience as you can get. For example, think
about taking trial practice even though
you may not feel you want to be a trial
lawyer, the skills you learn around standing up and presenting in front of people
— and being comfortable doing it — is invaluable in so many ways later on in life.
At both the DA’s and the AG’s office I
had a senior administrative role where I
oversaw many areas of the office, which
DICTA THANKS Atty. Calkins for taking the time
to share her experiences and wisdom with us.
Competitions or classes where you actually are on your feet, you have the opportunity to argue a case. Trial Practice,
Appellate practice, Mock Trial.
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Suffolk student travels abroad 3x
Suffolk Law student
exposed to different
cultures, economies
JD/MBA student Marcya Betts has
experienced a different side to her legal studies
by engaging in academic study in Sweden,
Puerto Rico and Cuba. She recently sat down
with DICTA for a brief chat about her travels.
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E Did you start law school intending to
study abroad?
No, studying abroad never crossed my
mind before I attended law school. Once
I heard about and experienced the Lund
Program, I was sold.
E Where have you studied abroad while a
student here at SULS?
I have been to Lund, Sweden under the
leadership of Sara Dillion along with Professors Leah Grinvald, Renee Landers,
Jeffery Wittenburg and visiting professors
Judge Isaac Borenstein. I have been to
San Juan, Puerto Rico under the leadership of former Dean Camille Nelson. Last,
but certainly not least, I have been to Havana, Cuba under the leadership of Isaac
Borenstein.
E How much did each trip cost?
It is really hard to say how much each
trip costs because I honestly try not to
think about it. The academic exchange in
Cuba cost me roughly $3,000. I would have
to estimate that Puerto Rico costed me
about $2,500, and Sweden cost me about
$4,500.
Please keep in mind that I was in Sweden for a month and I traveled on the
weekends. Also keep in mind that these
costs do not account for the credits taken.
I am a dual degree student so I pay per
credit hour. These courses amounted to
eight credits and cost me roughly $13,688
in student loans.
E How did you pay for your study abroad
experiences?
I used student loans to pay for the cost
of the courses. In Sweden and Puerto Rico, I used a mixture of cash and credit
cards, but for Cuba I only used cash.
E Did you write about your previous SULS
study abroad experiences when you applied
for subsequent trips?
I only wrote about my study abroad
trips to apply for the Cuba Seminar Program. There was no application process
for Puerto Rico, and I had never been
abroad when I applied for Sweden.
E Which study abroad experience was your
favorite? Least favorite? Why?
I honestly have to say, I do not have a
favorite or least favorite. Each program
provided me with a different perspective of life, opportunity, and experience
I would have never gained in the United
States. I have created strong bonds with
professors I would have never taken classes with otherwise.
I was able to travel to Berlin, Germany
during the 2014 World Cup while in Sweden, and lastly I was able to experience an
island that most people cannot experience
unless they fit into one of the 12 categories for authorized travel. My SULS study
abroad experiences have been phenomenal and I wouldn’t call one my favorite or
least favorite because that takes the value
away from the trip.
E Did you study abroad because it was related to your legal or business career goals?
I am always interested to see how the
legal and business industries operate in
different countries. I always think it is
better to experience it first had than to
hear it from third-party sources.
My goal is to work as general counsel for a corporation and these experiences will allow me to be more marketable.
Working for Nike has been a long term
goal of mine, and if I can master international law and business while merging
the two worlds together, it will make me
a great candidate for an in-house position
someday.
E What type of law do you intend to pursue,
and how do you think your study abroad
experiences will help?
I am pursuing corporate law. As most
corporations have international offices,
traveling abroad will give me an advantage concerning an ability to understand
different markets and the impact of cultural differences on various markets and
economies. Further, law can be personal. Understanding different cultures helps
you understand others’ values. Values are
the undertone of most laws.
JD/MBA student Marcya Betts as seen in some of her overseas study experiences. TOP:
With the famed “Little Mermaid” statue as a backdrop,
Betts joins a group of SULS students in Sweden. AT LEFT: Betts relaxes outside the University of Puerto Rico School of
Law. ABOVE: Betts is joined
by former Suffolk University
Law School dean, Camille Nelson, also in Puerto Rico. BELOW LEFT: Suffolk Law students take a break from studying in Puerto Rico to pose for a
group photo.
�DICTA / MARCH 2016
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QLA panel Mohammad Alwaheed becomes
reflects on first S.J.D. student at Suffolk to
civil rights successfully defend dissertation
challenges
T
he Queer Law Alliance (QLA) is
an organization at Suffolk University Law School that is dedicated
to serving current and prospective students through educational events, advocacy, and community service. The QLA
also strives to provide a visible network
of LGBTQ and ally students within the
school and within the legal community of
the Greater Boston area.
The alliance recently hosted its last
event for the year, in collaboration with
Black Law Students Association, the
President’s Diversity Initiative, and the
Dean of Students,
the 2016 Nutter
Speaker Series for
Diversity & Inclusion panel.
The event, titled “The Intersection of LGBTQ
Policy and the
Black Lives Matter Movement,”
was held on Tuesday, March 29
in the first floor
function room, and
featured a guest
panel comprised
of Professor Anthony Farley of Albany Law School, Ms.
Elle Hearns of Black Lives Matter and
Attorney Carl Williams of the American
Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts.
The discussion was moderated by
Professor Boonin with opening remarks
from Professor Cooper, and touched on
the role of race, gender, class, and sexual orientation in the #BlackLivesMatter
movement. The event aspired to connect
the historical involvement of queer people in the early civil rights movement to
the great need and potential for the LGBTQ to support the Black Lives Matter
movement now.
Continued to page 10
bY Bridgett C. Sandusky,
Michael L. Rustad & Thomas Koenig
Special to DICTA
n March 8, 2016, Mohammad Alwaheed had the honor of becoming
the first Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD) student to defend his dissertation and be approved as the program’s first
graduate.
The SJD degree at Suffolk is a postLL.M. degree that is awarded upon the
completion of an in-depth, publicationquality, dissertation that makes an original and creative contribution to the legal
literature
Mohammad received his bachelor’s degree in Sharia Law from Umm Al-Qura
University, is a former judge, and is currently counsel at Saudi Aramco. Prior to
joining the SJD program at Suffolk, Mohammad Alwaheed completed his LL.M.
degree here with dual specializations in
International Law and Business and Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law.
As a LL.M. student, Alwaheed studied
Internet Law and Emerging Issues in Information Technology at the Boston campus and international commercial law
with Professor Rustad in Budapest, Hungary. He was a member of the first entering SJD class at Suffolk University Law
School in 2012.
Alwaheed wrote his dissertation on
multi-faceted legal issues that arose from
the release of the “Innocence of Muslims”
film trailer on YouTube that triggered violent demonstrations, deaths, and injuries
throughout the world.
Suffolk’s SJD program was founded
in 2012 and currently enrolls 20 students
from diverse countries, including Saudi
Arabia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Turkey, Bulgaria, Pakistan,
and the United States. These students are
working on key legal topics, such as Human Rights in Saudi Arabia, Intellectual Property Reform, Comparative Corporate/Securities Studies, International
Trade and Arbitration, Banking Law, Conflict of Law, Rent to Own, and Comparative Studies of Criminal Law, Freedom of
O
From left: Prof. Chris Gibson, Mohammad Alwaheed, director Bridgett Sandusky, Prof. Tom Koenig
and Prof. Michael Rustad
the Press, and Legal Dilemmas involved
in National Security.
“This is an exciting day for Mohammad, but also for Suffolk Law. In an ever increasingly global world, our SJD program provides new avenues for our students and faculty to collaborate together and to contribute to novel scholarship
on a variety of legal issues,” said Bridgett
Sandusky, director of Graduate Law Programs at Suffolk.
Sandusky heads up the SJD, General
LL.M., the LL.M. in Global Law and Technology and exchange programs with universities in Germany, Sweden, Mexico,
and Canada,
The chair of Alwaheed’s dissertation
committee was Professor Michael L. Rustad, who is the Thomas F. Lambert Jr.
Professor of Law and co-director of the
Intellectual Property Concentration at
Suffolk. Professor Christopher Gibson, director of the Business Law and Financial Services Concentration, was the first
reader. The second reader was Professor
Thomas H. Koenig, who has been a faculty member at Northeastern University
since 1977, serving as chair of the Depart-
ment of Sociology and Anthropology from
2002 until 2008.
The March 8, 2016 defense of Alwaheed’s dissertation was well attended by
graduate law students and faculty members. His defense began with a 30-minute
presentation of his research, followed by a
vigorous question and answer period with
Professors Rustad, Gibson, and Koenig,
followed by a question and answer period where other faculty members and students could question the candidate.
After these three stages were completed, the SJD committee convened and announced its decision to the Suffolk University Community: “By a 3-0 vote, the Committee determined that Mohammad Alwaheed successfully passed his SJD defense.”
In May 2016, Alwaheed will graduate
as Suffolk University Law School’s first
SJD graduate. The conferring of the first
SJD degree on Mohammad Alwaheed is
a proud moment in the history of Suffolk
University Law School. In the next two
months, two more candidates are scheduled for defense and they will also be open
to the public.
�DICTA / MARCH 2016
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Right mindset, preparation can QLA panel
determine success on bar exam reflects on
By Anthony Hugar
he bar exam is as bad as you want
to make it. Let this line soak in. Too
often students walk into bar review
with fear and nervousness at an all-time
high. The mantra they repeat over and
over is “I just want to pass.” After working
with several hundred students across the
United States and in the New England area I have seen a lot of success stories. The
most common element of success has been
from those students who approach bar exam preparations with a healthy and confident mindset. This is not a mindset of
“wishful thinking” but rather it is a goaldriven and determined mindset.
T
Aim high(er)
Write down the number you want to get
on the exam. I tell my students this during
my initial round of phone calls. A student
often says that they just want to pass, but
then the fear sets in that if they do not
pass they fail. This pass/fail line is razer thin.
Instead I tell students to pick a number
a few points beyond the required passing
score and say “I am getting a 295 out of
400.” Repeat this phrase often as you work
through your materials. A 295 out of 400 is
a solid passing score for most states [Massachusetts requires 270/400, New Hampshire requires 270/400, New York requires
266/400]. With this 25-point buffer you can
successfully decrease the risk of missing
the mark and more importantly you can
eliminate the fear of failure from your
mind.
Find Inspiration
When I studied for the Massachusetts Bar Exam I was fortunate enough to
stumble across the “Rocky” series on Netflix. It was perfect timing to see those too.
Rocky is the story of an underdog boxer
who rises through the ranks beating the
Heavy Weight Champion and taking down
the Soviet Union’s best fighter during the
height of the Cold War. Like Rocky I felt
like I was an underdog too having not taken a bar exam ever. With the mindset that
I have to train hard and have discipline
I was able to navigate through the eight
weeks of study. Many of my students do
the same.
One student I worked with was from
a very low-tiered law school. His weekly
scores were coming in off the mark. There
was very slow improvement from week-toweek. The one thing that was progressing
was the overall course progress. This student was moving at a good pace. I called
the student to talk about his progress and
give suggestions on how to improve and he
would take them into account.
I asked what he was doing to prepare
for the following week and he would say
that he watches Tony Robbins videos and
other YouTube videos that preach of the
concept of “Visualization” of goals. To me,
H
You are not competing with
classmates anymore. It is just
you and the exam. If you can
tame your thoughts, then you
can succeed.
G
it was all a bunch of philosophical BS, but
I did not tell the student that. When the
results came out though I was surprised
to see this student overcame the odds and
passed despite having low practice scores
all throughout the summer. Every student
is an underdog here but with this mindset
and inspiration he or she can overcome
the odds.
Aim for a B
Law students are all Type A personalities. To pass the bar exam you need only
get a D. The exam is often referred to as
“An exam of minimum competence.” The
sooner you realize you do not have to be a
perfectionist the better and more flexible
you will be in your review. Take time to
practice questions and look at your results
as a means to improve.
I tell my students that each time you
miss a question in practice is an opportunity to not miss it on the exam. You develop a foresight into the issues in such a
way that merely reading the outline cannot accomplish. Take your bumps and
bruises throughout the summer so that
you can coast through the exam in July.
Do not, DO NOT, be afraid to do practice
questions early on because this is the best
way to determine where you need to improve.
Study like you are winning an election
My boss, Rick Duffy, a 40 year bar review veteran, has stated that studying for
the bar exam is like running for president.
You do not need the popular vote you just
need to win the states that matter. When
you are studying it is best to have a working knowledge of all topics tested but you
want to have a more solid understanding
of the highly tested areas. These highly
tested areas are your big states. You want
to spend a little more time in them because if you can get them then you have a
greater chance of passing comfortably.
The National Conference of Bar Examiners provides a “Subject Matter Outline”
for the MBE on its website (ncbex.org).
In this Outline you can see the percentages of topics tested. The conference typically sticks closely to this breakdown, which
means you can essentially predict what
areas show up so that you can study more
heavily in those areas.
For example, it is a better use of your
time reviewing Mortgages and Foreclosures instead of the Rule Against Perpetuities on the MBE. Think of Mortgages
and Foreclosures as Ohio and the RAP as
Rhode Island. Ohio is a good state to win,
and if you do well there then you can ensure you will get enough points to pass
the MBE. No offense to Rhode Island (or
the RAP) but it isn’t a good use of your
time if you are reviewing hours on end to
try your luck on the possible two or three
questions that may appear.
Concluding points
Get yourself in the right mindset now
and know that you are your best ally in
preparation. You are not competing with
classmates anymore (as the exam isn’t
graded on a curve) and you are not trying
to get an A. It is just you and the exam. If
you can tame your thoughts, then you can
succeed. I promise you that.
Anthony Hugar is a Suffolk Law graduate
and Massachusetts Attorney. He currently
is the director for Massachusetts at Themis
Bar Review and is the legal adviser for
Get A Grip Golf, LLC. To reach him you
may email HugarLaw@Gmail.com.
civil rights
Continued from page 9
The fact that black transgender women have an average life expectancy of 35
years, with the highest murder rate in
the country, is something the legal community needs to address.
The legal community needs to discuss racial discrimination, police brutality, and the lives of Black, Queer and
Trans people in order to better create
access to justice. Our panel discussion
hopefully helped to promote opportunities to create dialogue and understanding of the Black Lives Matter movement
and the intersectionality of race, gender,
and sexual orientation.
QLA headed many momentous initiatives, such as establishing gender neutral restrooms in Sargent Hall 4th Floor,
as well as organizing and showcasing an
exhibit called, “LGBTQ Law: Existence
is Defiance” with Moakley Library and
Archives Department to celebrate LGBTQ History Month.
Other notable programs that QLA
hosted this year included Gay, Lesbian
& Straight Education Network (GLSEN)
Trainings, World AIDS Awareness Day
movie screening of Paris is Burning and
The Normal Heart, and QLAunch and
study breaks for dialogue and friendship.
QLA officer include president Annette Macaluso, vice president Michael
O’Brien, secretary Alex Samaei, treasurer Cherie Ching and 1L representative/community relations liaison Skailer
Qvistgaard.
Crossword answers
The answers to this month’s crossword
puzzle (on page 11) are as follows:
ACROSS: 1) bankruptcy 2) a fortiori
3) pecuniary 5) bail 9) force majeur
12) per se 15) underwrite 16) ultra vires
DOWN: 1) bona fide purchaser 3) per
curiam 4) ex post facto 6) parens patriae
7) res ipsa loquitor 8) Bill of Attainder
10) unconscionable 11) res judicata
12) parol 13) per capita 14) barratry
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Congratulations to AAJ National Student Trial Advocacy Competition regional
champions James Duffy JD’17 and Carolyn Kenniston JD’16 (seen flanked by
Kristen O’Keeffe and Ian Mackey). They defeated the team from Yale in the regional finals and were off to New Orleans for the nationals at month’s end.
Suffolk University Law School 3L Cherie Ching has been named “Law Student of the
Year” by National Jurist Magazine. As president of Suffolk Law’s Asian Pacific American Law Students Association (see item on
page 5), Ching, a native of Pearl City, Hawaii, has spearheaded the Harry H. Dow Annual Lecture Series on Immigration Law.
The series is named after Ching’s role model — a 1929 Suffolk Law School graduate
and the first Chinese-American admitted to
the Massachusetts Bar. After graduation,
Ching plans on practicing in real estate and
property law to open up investment opportunities for minority communities.
1. Federal system of statutes
and courts which permits persons and businesses which are
insolvent or who face insolvency, to place financial affairs under the control of the bankruptcy court.
2. (Latin) “with even stronger reason;” applies to a situation
in which if one thing is true then
it can be inferred that a second
thing is even more certainly true.
3. Relating to money
5. The money or bond put up
to secure the release of a person
who charged with a crime.
9. (Latin) “superior force”,
frees both parties from liability
or obligation when an extraordinary event or circumstance beyond the control of the parties
prevents one or both parties from
fulfilling their obligations under
the contract.
12. (Latin) “by itself,” meaning inherently, but further explanation might be required.
15. To agree to pay an obligation, guarantee purchase, or
guarantee by investment.
16. (Latin) “beyond powers;”
refers to acts of a corporation
and/or its officers outside the
powers and/or authority allowed
a corporation by law.
DOWN:
1. Commonly called BFP in legal and banking circles; a person
who has purchased an asset (including a promissory note, bond
or other negotiable instrument)
for stated value, innocent of any
fact which would cast doubt on
the right of the seller to have sold
it in good faith.
3. (Latin) “by the court,” defining a decision of an appeals
court as a whole in which no
judge is identified as the specific author.
4. Latin for “after the fact,” refers to laws adopted after an act
is committed; such laws are specifically prohibited by the U.S.
Over 250 alumni and students attended the annual SuffolkConnect AlumniStudent Networking Reception, held recently at the Omni Parker House. An enthusiastic group of alumni turned out to spend with students sharing their experience and wisdom.
6. (Latin) “father of his country;” doctrine that the gov’t is
the ultimate guardian of all people under a disability, especially
children, whose care is only “entrusted” to their parents.
7. (Latin) “the thing speaks
for itself;” a doctrine of law that
one is presumed to be negligent
if he/she/it had exclusive control
of whatever caused the injury
even though there is no specific
evidence of an act of negligence,
and without negligence the accident would not have happened.
8. A legislative act which declares a named person guilty of a
crime, particularly treason. Such
bills are prohibited by Article I,
Section 9 of the Constitution. Con-
stitution, Article I, Section 9.
10. Referring to a contract or
bargain which is so unfair to a
party that no reasonable or informed person would agree to it.
11. (Latin) “the thing has
been judged,” meaning the issue
before the court has already been
decided by another court, between the same parties.
12. Oral
13. (Latin) “by head,” meaning to be determined by the
number of people.
14. Creating legal business by
stirring up disputes and quarrels,
generally to benefit the lawyer
who sees fees in the matter.
See page 10 for answers
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November 2016
become a Professor of Law; (2)
What qualifications are
necessary for such titles,
considering we all end up getting
the same Juris Doctorate; and (3)
What exactly sets one on the
path towards becoming a
Professor or a Dean at a law
school? After having
contemplating it long enough, I
decided it was time to ask the
questions I wanted to ask and
actually get to know the person
behind the title. So I decided to
sit down with the Associate
Dean of Students, Ann
McGonigle Santos. Dean Santos
was happy to share her life
experience as a Dean, Lawyer,
Professional, and Mother.
Prior to joining Suffolk Law School, Associate Dean of Students
Ann McGonigle Santos served as an Assistant District Attorney at
the Middlesex County District Attorney's Office. Mrs. Santos tried
several cases in both the District and Superior Courts, ranging
from simple assault and battery to rape and attempted murder.
Q: What qualifications are
required to become a Dean?
DS: Deans are professors that
have shown some quality in
leadership on either the academic
or student services side.
Q: How long have you been a
Dean?
DS: When the position opened
A Glimpse into a Dean’s World: up and I was asked to apply, I thought it
would be a great opportunity to do something
Featuring Dean Santos
different, but still stay connected to the
By: Nicholas Williams
students and teaching. I love what I do now
From early on, long before I enrolled as it allows
in law school, and back when I wanted to be
me to work closely with students and still
an OB/GYN, I was always told that there was
teach!
a challenging work-life balance in the lives of
lawyers. As I got to know the faculty, staff,
Q: Walk me through the day you decided to
and administrators during my first year, I
go to law school.
started to wonder what many of their roles
DS: It was after my first year of college that I
entail. My chief curiosity was what the actual
role of a law school Dean. (1) How does one did a summer internship as a victim witness
advocate. During that internship I simply fell
in love with the court system because there
were always exciting things happening, I had
also always wanted to be a prosecutor, so that,
too, played a huge role in my decision to go to
law school.
Q: Following up on the previous question,
what made you leave the prosecution field if
you loved it so?
DS: I did love it and I still do, but things
changed. I wanted to start a family soon, and
back then a $26,000 salary was not a salary to
start a family on. Although, I love
prosecution, I also found I had a real passion
for teaching that probably was connected to
my mother being a teacher for 30 years.
Q: What would you say about the field of
prosecution now?
DS: The job is different now than when I was
prosecuting because there are more virulent
drugs; more mental health issues involving
both defendants and victims, and potentially
less reources for some programs. However,
once a prosecutor always a prosecutor—it felt
like a family back then and I am still close to
many of my colleagues. Also, I met my
husband, who is a police officer, in
Courtroom 6B of the Middlesex Superior
Court when he was appearing as a witness!
Q: Can you tell me about the hardest case you
ever had to prosecute?
DS: The most difficult case? There are many,
but there was one in particular: a sexual
assault case of a child. Although I won the
case, the defendant had a prominent
reputation in the community so many people
didn’t or didn’t want to believe the 11-yearold victim. I have a real passion for
prosecuting cases that involve children; there
Deans World Continued on page 3
INSIDE | Student Benefits of Election, 3 | Rehab for Prisoners, 4 | Experience 6 | SBA President 10
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Deans’ world continued from page 1.
and our many different clinics are specifically Q: Oh, so you’re like the suburban soccer
mom with a minivan and all?
designed to prepare students to be ready to
is something refreshing and liberating about
practice when they graduate from law school.
getting justice on behalf of children.
DS: Not quite! More like a hockey mom
minus the minivan!
After having grilled Dean Santos
Q: Is there any advice you would like to give
about the professional aspect of her work and
to other law students?
Q: How do you find time to read for leisure? I
on gauging my own agenda, I begin to
haven’t had such an opportunity since
DS: If a student had a true passion for a field inquire, just a bit, into her personal life. Deans
undergrad.
really are not as intimidating as we some
of law, be it criminal or patent law or
might mistakenly think, and underneath their DS: I make time. It’s my “must” do. I
bankruptcy, I would tell that student to take
classes that highlight that interest and show a “tough as nails” personalities, they really are dedicate 20 minutes a night to just read a
committment to that area of the law. Becuase personable!
book, preferably a mystery/crime fiction
book.
I always knew that I wanted to be a
Q: As a child I used to participate in “take
prosecutor, I took classes that made it clear to
your child to work” day, I’m not sure if
Q: What are your favorite TV shows?
prospective employers that I was passionate
Massachusetts has a similar tradition, but did
about criminal law. However, if a student is
you ever have the opportunity to take yours to DS: Hm, I like West-Wing, Game of Thrones,
unsure, I would suggest taking a myriad of
BBC: Sherlock, MI-5.
work with you?
courses that will expose them to different
Q: Did you ever consider running for office?
areas to see what sparks their interest. I would DS: Well, I have two—a boy and a girl. My
also take advantage of all of the panels and
daughter came with me to work before, but
DS: I actually am on the Board of Selectman
not anymore since she’s older now.
networking events that we host to further
of my town. I ended up living in the town I
expose a student to different areas of the law
grew up in so it is very rewarding to be a part
Q: Do you have any favorite sports?
of its progress.
Q: How do you factor outside considerations
DS: Well I like all sports, to be honest!
to run the school? Are there any problems or
Particularly Hockey and college basketball. I Q:Last question, especially since I know time
issues encountered?
is running out: why do you stay so busy?
was also very athletic growing up, so I still
DS: Sometimes funding can be an issue with find ways to stay active by playing tennis!
DS: To be honest, I just really, really like to
certain programs, but generally, no. We
be involved in many things. I would never
Q: What do you do during your free time?
consider what the market demands and how
like to limit myself, and I don’t anticipate
we can make sure our students are prepared
DS: I really don't have much free time based slowing down soon.
attorneys according to the current legal
on how active my son and daughter are. Most
SPECIAL THANKS to Dean Santos for taking the time
market trend. We use practical approaches by weekends are spent going to their hockey
to speak with me, giving me insight into not only
producing practice ready and specific interest games or hopefully grabbing a bite to eat and
her life as a Dean, but also her life as a Mom and
Professor.
courses. For instance, the accelerator program nice glass of wine with family and friends!
How President-Elect Trump’s Policies Could Impact Law Students
By Alison Farquhar, Staff Writer
Following his upset victory, President-Elect Trump has begun
walking back some of his campaign promises, and his plans for
addressing some issues have yet to be fully elucidated. With the
national mood still turbulent and uncertain, Dicta examines how
President Trump could affect the personal and professional lives of
law students and attorneys starting on Inauguration Day, January 20,
2017.
Student Loans
The average private school law student has over $120,000 in
student loan debt at graduation, and the average undergraduate
student has over $28,000.
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In a campaign speech in October, Mr. Trump pledged to enact
a plan that would cap student loan payments at 12.5% of an
individual’s earnings per month, and forgive unpaid debts after 15
years. Rather than addressing existing student debt, however, he
focused on the obligation of colleges with tax-exempt endowments to
keep tuition low, and pledged to motivate colleges to cut tuition.
Further, he promised to eliminate some federal regulations which he
claims lead to schools spending inordinate amounts on compliance
and creating “administrative bloat”, which in turn raises tuition.
Earlier in the campaign season, Mr. Trump stated that the Department
of Education can be “largely eliminated” and that without it, schools
and private lenders could work together to determine student lending
rates. Mr. Trump’s official website offers no additional information
on his plans for addressing this issue.
impact attorney firms directly, but instead impact many clients of
attorneys. What is clear is attorneys should anticipate the Trump
Administration making many statutory changes in the fields of tax
law, administrative law, and several areas of finance.
Childcare for Working Parents
Childcare in Massachusetts is among the most expensive in
the country, with average annual costs exceeding $15,000 per year per
household. In households in which both parents work full-time,
childcare is often a necessary, and huge, expense.
In a document available on his campaign website that focuses
on mothers, Mr. Trump promises to make the average cost of
childcare in a taxpayer’s state of residence tax-deductible for
households earning up to $500,000 per year. He includes both
“institutional, private, nursery school, afterschool care, and
enrichment activities,” and the services of a stay-at-home parent or
grandparent, in his list of expenses that would qualify for the
deduction. Mr. Trump’s plan would also allow families to open
savings accounts for childcare expenses that would be tax-free up to
$2,000, plus pledging a $500 match to contributed by the government.
His plan also includes tax incentives for businesses to provide
employee childcare. Mr. Trump’s plan has been criticized as
unhelpful to low-income families, as the lowest-earning families do
not pay income taxes, and therefore could not benefit from his plan’s
income tax breaks.
Taxes and Job Creation (in the Legal Field)
Mr. Trump has not laid out policies that explicitly affect the
market for attorneys; indeed, his campaign focused on blue-collar job
creation. However, work for attorneys will conceivably increase in the
wake of his administration’s policies, as he has proposed sweeping
procedural and substantive statutory legal changes.
Mr. Trump’s plan to create jobs promises “unbridled
economic growth” through “tax, trade, energy, and regulatory” policy
reforms. He proposes income tax cuts for every tax bracket, and a
20% reduction in “business” taxes. His plan would reduce the number
of income tax brackets from seven to three, and increase the amount
individuals can deduct. He pledges to repeal the alternative minimum
The coming months will see the appointment of more officials
tax and the estate tax, though his website provides little to no
to the Trump Cabinet, possibly shedding light on the president-elect’s
information on point regarding how he will implement these policies plans to “make America great again”. Dicta will provide updates on
or make up for any lost government revenue. Many points of Mr.
this topic in our next issue.
Trump’s tax plan focus on manufacturing jobs, which are unlikely to
The calling for a reformation on the
rehabilitation process of Prisoners in the U.S.
By Samantha Leburn
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence,
therefore, is not an act but a habit. --Aristotle.
Up until the mid-1970s, rehabilitation was a key part of U.S.
prison policy. Prisoners were encouraged to develop occupational
skills and to resolve psychological problems such as substance abuse
or aggression that might interfere with their reintegration into society,
and indeed, many inmates received court sentences that mandated
treatment for such problems. Since then, however, rehabilitation has
taken a back seat to a “tough on crime” approach that sees
punishment as prison's main function. Research has shown that this
approach has created explosive growth in the prison population, while
having a very low effect on crime rates. As a result, the United States
now has more than 2 million people in prisons or jails: the most of
any developed country in the world. While many believe the primary
purpose of prisons and jails is punishment, a growing movement
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intends to change that perception. These reformers say prisons and
jails should serve as a deterrent to crime, to help rehabilitate people
with the hope of integrating them back into society. By targeting
prisoners’ behavior, reducing prison populations and offering job
skills, researchers argue we could reduce prisoner aggression and
prevent recidivism.
relationships. Many people who enter prison do not have this need on
the outside, as many come from broken homes, and the ability to
build friendships or trusting relationships becomes even more
impossible in prison. Often, fights break out when inmates are given
the opportunity to be together, and guards take advantage of racial
divides and in order to maintain some semblance of order. This in turn
encourages inmates to turn on each other. Under these extreme
According to criminal justice expert Joel Dvoskin, with a PhD circumstances it is not likely that one will gain trust yet alone obtain
from the University of Arizona, “The current design of prison systems love and affection through this environment, in spite of any love and
don’t work. Overly punitive approaches used on violent, angry
support they may or may not have on the outside. Not to mention, the
criminals only provide a breeding ground for more anger and more
overuse of solitary confinement literally leaves inmates isolated and
violence.” In furtherance of supporting this theory, it is important to
without human contact for weeks, months, or even years.
first understand the basic needs of a human being. Throughout most
studies done on human behavior by previous and current
As for the Esteem needs, Maslow posits they take two forms:
psychologist, they all began their research from Maslow’s Hierarchy (a) a need for strength, achievement, mastery and competence; (b) a
of needs. This is a comprehensive and holistic view of human
need for reputation, status, recognition and appreciation. Fulfillment
necessity accompanied by the emotional, physiological, physical,
of these needs leads to a sense of self-confidence, worth, and value to
spiritual and social support systems that should be provided in order
the world. Most prisoners have monotonous daily routine, leading to
for the individual to become a better citizen. According to Maslow’s frustration, both as an emotional response to their circumstances but
Hierarchy there are five basic needs: Biological and Physiological,
also due to lack of possibility of getting released. Although not every
Safety, Love, Esteem, and Self-Actualization.
inmate is in solitary confinement there are also not a lot of
recreational activities for the rest of the population to get involved in
Biological and Physiological needs (such as air, food and
while in prison. It is very hard for anyone to feel as though they have
shelter) are provided in the U.S. prison system. However, Safety
a true self-worth when they are not in an environment that enables
needs, the need for an individual to feel safe and not live in fear or
them to identify what their true potential is. Some prisoners try to
uncertainty is greatly absent in the life of a prisoner in the U.S. It has create a name for themselves, by either acting out to create fear and
been reported that due to lack of funds, there is a substantially higher respect from other inmates or by being obedient in hopes of being left
amount of prisoners within a prison with a very low amount of staff
alone or gaining benefits like early release. As an inmate in the
members in facilities. The prison staff is trained to handle multiple
Zimbardo study lamented,
inmates at once. The result of this overcrowding is guards, free within
limits, doing whatever is thought to be necessary to maintain law and
“I began to feel that I was losing my identity, that the person
order in the prison and to command the respect of the prisoners. This
that I called Clay, the person who put me in this place, the
in turn leads to lack of order for inmates because staff members often
person who volunteered to go into this prison – because it was
do not follow protocol and, in some cases, abuse. As a result, inmates
a prison to me; it still is a prison to me… I began to feel that
often get sexually assaulted, physically abused, emotionally abused
that identity, the person that I was that had decided to go to
and mentally abused. Such conditions, worsened by the overcrowding
prison was distant from me – was remote until finally I wasn't
of prisons, have contributed to a number of prison riots.
that, I was # 416. I was really my number.”
“What happens when you put good people in an evil place?
Does humanity win over evil or does evil triumph?” These were some
of the questions posed by the infamous simulation of prison life
conducted in 1971 at Stanford University under Professor Philip G.
Zimbardo. Throughout the experiment, prisoners were identified
through numbers and not by name. After just a few days, those given
the titles of “guard” subjected those given the titles of “prisoner” were
subject to harassment, abuse, and loss of control. This article and this
study do not intend to malign prison guards, but to show that
everyday people are capable of great wrongs when power goes
unchecked. “Absolute power corrupts absolutely,” as the saying goes,
and Safety needs are not met under these conditions.
Love needs come in the form of friendship, intimacy, and
affection from work group, family, friends, and romantic
It is clear that this loss of self contributes to overall feelings of
worthlessness to prisoners.
Trying to meet Maslow’s forth level of Hierarchy is nearly
impossible under the conditions of these prisons in America. After
analyzing the first four of levels of Maslow’s Hierarchy it becomes
more evident that an inmate may never reach the stage of Self
Actualization needs. Most inmates never actually learn the skills
needed to transfer back into society after such long periods of time.
For those who have completed their time in prison, they quickly
realize they are not quite equipped to deal with the real world, and
prefer to go back because they have been so accustomed to living in
that environment. Incarceration is not meant to be fun, but a
combination of strict sentencing guidelines, budget shortfalls and a
punitive philosophy of corrections has made today's prisons much
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more unpleasant and much less likely to rehabilitate their inhabitants
than in the past.
For these listed reasons, some experts believe that it would be
cheaper, more humane, and more productive to reform the prison
system into one focused on rehabilitation to reduce recidivism and
turn out better citizens than were brought in. The findings suggest that
individual-centered approaches to crime prevention need to be
complemented by community-based approaches. When properly
implemented, work programs, education, and psychotherapy can ease
prisoners’ transitions to the free world. More staff members should be
hired and properly trained to prevent abuses. When a staff member is
found to have abused or improperly implemented his or her power,
that staff member should be let go. Mandatory minimum sentences
should be abolished to take into account the specifics of a crime, and
community service should be an option so as to reduce the prison
My Katahdin Experience
By Kierra MacDougall
Saturday, 3:30am: Beep… beep…
beep… my mind turns on like a switch at the
sound of the alarm. What time is it? What day is
it? Do I have a meeting? Is something due? Is
something wrong? All questions leading me to
answer why I am getting up in the middle of the
night – and then it hits me I do not have to be
anywhere but rather need to be somewhere.
Katahdin.
It was the last long weekend of the
summer and we were ready to seize every moment
of it. With a two-pound tent and a couple of
hammocks, the place we would call home for next
seventy-two hours was out there somewhere. We
prepared for different camping situations because
this trip was planned last minute; we did not have
a camping site lined up for the weekend. We did
however do some research and used Google Earth
to pin-point some possible camping locations. In
order to better see the possible “sites we put
Google Earth on satellite images that were
captured during the Spring. This view captured
that the leaves were no longer on the trees and we
were able to spot some lean-to sites that were free
and first-come-first-serve. We made a list of about
a half-dozen GPS coordinates of potential sites for
us and left a copy with our family and friends
back home for safekeeping. We were off.”
Experience continued on page 8.
population. To take this a step further, small offenses should
automatically be removed from a prisoners’ record after a certain
number of years has passed so they can continue their life with a clean
slate and be open to job opportunities that may not be available to
those who have served prison time.
Overall, these services help rehabilitate individuals and make
a much smoother transition back into society. If the prison system in
America begins these reforms, they will see a decrease in our tax
dollars going strictly to incarcerating the same people over and over,
an increase in turnout of productive citizens post-prison, and a more
manageable prison system to the benefit of our citizenry.
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logging roads of the Katahdin Woods. It was on
American Southwest faced an increasing threat
these logging roads where we bumped into four
from private collectors and looters. Thus,
Down the Dirt Road
moose, a fox, four deers, and two owls! Never had enforcement needed to be created to protect these
I seen so much wildlife. Fortunately, we did not
treasures. Others,
We had our list of coordinates, GPS, a
run into a black bear but other hikers there was
including the
printed map and a good attitude. The first six
Department of the
hours of driving on the highway were nothing out one roaming around camp area told us. In
addition to the wildlife, the roaring brooks, lakes,
Interior, believed
of the ordinary. Green trees, Maine license plates,
rivers, and stars were breathtaking. It is no
the protection of
highway signs and the occasional road kill
wonder Henry David Thoreau was drawn to
such treasures had
entertained our eyes. Our highway drive was
explore these woods many years ago.
a narrow
exactly as expected except for the slight delay in
archeological
Bangor due to accidentally locking the keys in the
Local Katahdin
focus. Instead, they
car.
wanted to broaden
Katahdin Woods and Waters showed me
The GPS told us to take a right on a dirt
the president’s
a world where New England remains untouched
road that appeared to be a farmer’s personal
authority to protect
by the average type of tourism you see in places
driveway. Despite our suspicions, we took that
public lands for
like the White Mountains in New Hampshire. At
right turn and headed down the dirt road that
their scenic and
the same time I saw wildlife I also saw how the
would hopefully lead us to an open campsite.
other values.
local community is part of this land. The logging
After driving an hour we were faced with an
Members of Congress, particularly from western
roads we went on were large dirt roads with
obstacle–more accurately our Toyota Camry was
broken stop signs and debris. There were signs at states, pushed back and believed the president’s
faced with an obstacle.
authority designating national monuments of
every corner that said “No National Parks.” We
couldn’t understand why people wouldn’t want to public land was too broad. A compromise
We were at a beat up bridge only wide
between a narrow archeological focus and a broad
enough for one car to pass. Fully confident in our preserve such a beautiful land. We were lucky
enough to be one of the first visitors to this land as public land protection focus had to be met.
car we trudged over the bridge. However, our
a national monument. Already they were
confidence was short lived when we realized the
In 1906 President Roosevelt signed the
bridge was missing 2 by 4s and could not make it reconstructing the land for scenic views and
Antiquities Act into law that helped compromise
informative signs on the particular locations. We
over the lip of the wood at the last section of
the competing interests. Under the Antiquities
saw the land as it was transitioning from a world
bridge. At this point a few cars had lined up
Act, the president is authorized, in his discretion,
where logging and wildlife collided to a land that
behind us and were watching us make our
to declare by public proclamation historic
mistake. Stuck on the bridge we got out of the car will soon be fluttered with tourism and wildlife.
landmarks, historic and prehistoric structures, and
to find the bridge was not only missing a layer of The experience was a perfect end to our summer
other objects of historic or scientific interest to be
but just the beginning for these local communities
wood to make it an even ground but also there
national monuments. This expanded the
that will be affected by this new national
were a few sections of the bridge with rotted
president’s authority of designating national
monument.
wood that created holes the size of tires. We
monuments to include both archeological interests
tackled this challenge with the help of a ranger
and public land interests. Since the Antiquities
National Monuments: Serving to Protect
and we decided then and there that the Katahdin
Act enactment in 1906, almost every president
Nature’s Beauty
Woods and Waters National Monument was a
(except for Presidents Nixon, Reagan, and George
place like no other.
There were a few things that inspired our H. W. Bush) has designated national monuments.
last-minute adventure to Katahdin Woods and
Our Little Oasis
Challenges to Preservation
Waters: a challenging hike at Mt. Katahdin, the
sure possibility of a seeing a moose and a way to
We passed by a few occupied campsites
National monuments are usually
connect back to nature one last time before the
before reaching our own little oasis. We parked
designated from land the federal government
summer was gone. When we found out Katahdin
the car and walked about a half mile until we
already owns from various uses (logging, mining,
reached our own lean-to site that was situated on Woods and Waters was made into a National
etc.) in favor of long-term conservation. In the
Monument that was the final decision maker to
the International Appalachian Trail. After a few
past, monuments were used to protect a single,
go.
trips back and forth to the car we finally had our
identifiable resource. However, in recent years
luxurious campsite set up.
monuments are being used to protect large
The Antiquities Act
ecosystems. Long-term conservation helps us
One of our goals on this trip was to hike
The earliest versions of the Antiquities
evaluate our land’s precious resources and beauty
Mt. Katahdin in Baxter State Park. Although
Act of 1906 were used to protect historic and
but unfortunately may have a negative impact on
physically we were only a few miles away from
prehistoric objects and artifacts. At the turn of the those closest to the protected land.
the mountain, to get to the entrance of Baxter
nineteenth century, archeological treasures of the
State Park we needed to drive 3 hours through the
Experience continued from page 6
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and the logistics of funding this monument.
Disappointment also came from local figures like
The land of Katahdin Woods and Waters
Dana Doran, the Executive Director for
was made into a national monument with the help
Professional Logging Contractors of Maine.
of Roxanne Quimby, founder of Bert’s Bees and
Doran stated that “Maine loggers need reliable
philanthropist. Quimby donated more than 87,500
and safe access to the area's working forests and
acres in the Katahdin Region to the federal
the PLC will work closely with our Congressional
government. In his executive order designating
delegation, the communities surrounding the
the new national monument, Obama described
proposed monument and the National Park
Katahdin Woods and Waters as an “exceptional
Service to address the very real access and road
example of the rich and storied Maine woods.” Its
safety issues this monument creates.” Despite her
particular location is enhanced by larger protected
disappointments, Doran says she will make sure
landscapes such as Baxter State Park. Prior to
this decision does not cost jobs in Maine’s logging
becoming a national monument, the rich land was
industry.
a vital source for Maine’s logging and
papermaking industry. Even though the new
Supporters
national monument seeks to protect the valued
The establishments of the national
land not everyone agreed with Obama’s decision.
monuments do end up benefiting society in one
way or another. There are many people in support
of Obama’s designation of Maine’s new
monument. As I have seen first hand, this national
monument is drawing in visitors from all over and
the land is rebuilding with the goal of long-term
conservation in mind. Local supporters of the
national monument, such as key figures from the
Appalachian Mountain Club, Environment Maine,
and Natural Resources Council of Maine, are
thrilled with the decision because it will protect
the remote North Woods and create new
opportunities for conservation, recreation and
nature-based tourism jobs in the region. This
Oppositions
remote land is home to bears, moose, the
In response to Obama’s decision,
threatened Canada lynx, streams, and lakes. This
Governor Paul LePage of Maine said that
designation may give mill towns a new
Obama’s unilateral action of establishing the
opportunity to rebrand themselves to attract
monument “demonstrates that rich, out-of-state
tourism and businesses.
liberals can force an unpopular agenda on the
Another national monument that faced
Maine people against their will.” Even though
similar challenges during its establishment is the
Legislature passed a resolution opposing the
Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
national monument, members of Maine’s
Before Clinton established this national
congressional delegation opposed it and local
monument in 1996, 47% of Utahns opposed its
citizens voted against it repeatedly the executive
creation. However, six months later opposition
order was still signed. LePage also fueled his
jumped down to 32% , in one year tourism rose
disapproval of the national monument by saying
how “the Quimby family used high-paid lobbyists 58% and in ten years the monument’s 430 jobs
contributed $26 million to the local economy.
in Washington, D.C., to go around the people of
When Grand Staircase-Escalante was designated a
Maine and have President Obama use his
national monument there was very little
authority to designate this area a National
consultation with local stakeholders and mainly
Monument.” Other state leaders such as United
States Representative Bruce Poliquin and United created as a political favor. Although local
States Senator Susan Collins also expressed their consultation was overlooked, over time the local
hesitations over the decision due to stakeholders’ community of the Grand Staircase-Escalante
benefited from the decision.
opposition, the impact on the local community,
An Ode to National Parks
Nature is a place that energizes the soul.
As a law student, a mental retreat for just 20
minutes can revitalize my mind and better prepare
myself for a busy schedule. When time and
money are on my side, the best kind of place has
no roofs or walls. So, as a salute to the end of the
summer and the starting gunshot mark to the new
school year, my top soul-energizing place ended
up being in Katahdin Woods and Waters National
Monument.
Two days before Katahdin Woods and
Waters was declared a national monument the
National Park Service celebrated its 100th
birthday. The national monument is a designation
of protected land within the National Park and
later down the road we may see the new
monument turn into a National Park. Other
designated national monuments we treasure today
include Grand Canyon National Park and Joshua
Tree National Park. Already around the corner is
Acadia National Park, a national park that draws
in over two million people each year so Maine is
not a stranger to scenic hungry visitors.
The natural landscape of America is
unique and deserves to be treasured. The past
century we have made great efforts in preserving
America’s beauty but it is becoming more tricky
to satisfy the needs of all those effected by longterm conservation. In America, we seem to
respond better when there are financial gains and
short-term rewards but long-term rewards (or
consequences) should be taken into consideration.
Society’s views towards land and wildlife
protection are different today than what they were
in the 1900s. More people today would agree that
protecting our land is more than just preserving its
natural beauty. As our cities become more
urbanized we are losing touch with the natural
world. Not only does our land need protection
from destruction but also we need our land to
prosper for our own health benefit.
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weigh on people’s minds. The bar passage
was low. There’s no getting around that.
Students are frustrated with sharing the
facilities. Again, there is really no way to
talk around that but I believe truly that
these things are not indications of failure
but markers of the progress we are capable
of making.
weren’t sure if we’d even attempt a
replacement but as many of you know ended
up hosting the first fall event in recent
memory that has not ended with (to the full
extent of my knowledge) a single altercation.
It was not only successful by that metric but
was one of the most financially responsible
fall events the SBA has hosted and has given
us the fiscal freedom to give clubs almost
To some that may come across as a
double the budgets they had last year and
surprising assessment but there’s a lot that
boost the total number of events we are
has happened in the last year that leads me
having to reach the greatest possible number
towards an optimistic appraisal. Some of
of students no matter what their interests may
these things have been loud and easy to see
be.
like the shuffling of the Board of Trustees,
others have been quiet like the professors
These are the kinds of things that lend
who have included cross-discipline
themselves to a positive appraisal. Setbacks
teachers in classes where their outside
happen. Inevitably bad news happens but the
perspective may be valuable but the trend ability to rebound is not likewise a guarantee.
is one that does overall suggest steady and From the student all the way to the highest
sustainable improvement to the quality of administrators, Suffolk has consistently
our education and the environment in
proven itself one of the most stalwart and
which we receive it.
resolved bodies of people. It’s easy to unfairly
game the bar passage numbers or pour
Even this week for example, should
finances towards problems but Suffolk
be the week of November 14th, there are a
Daniel Hahn, Suffolk University Law
emphasizes a trust in its constituents when
series of town hall style meetings hosted by
School Student Bar Association (SBA)
there are bad days to build towards a better
Suffolk leadership to get constituent
President
tomorrow. There is a focus here on
feedback on finding the best next
reinventing policies and providing tools for
President. That’s a fairly progressive stance.
A Word with the President Not only is it a progressive stance but it’s an success not patches for aesthetics’ sake and
that trend is one that is easy to be proud of as
action that says the Board of Trustees heard
I thought long and hard about what I
a student.
wanted this op-ed piece to tailor its focus on. the concerns raised after last year’s media
coverage and is actively responding to them
In a time when I think everyone could
As much as it has dominated discussion this
in a way that seeks to actually amend them.
use some good news I am proud to be a
past week, I think there’s enough being said
member of an institution that empowers us to
on and enough forums for it to be said in
If we want to zoom in on Suffolk Law
be the initiators of that good news.
about the US election. That is not to say I do we see the same trend. Bar passage was
not think it’s an important subject—maybe
announced about a month ago but that email
Case and point the return of our
it’s even a vital subject—but I want to take a did not come out with just results. That email student newspaper, Dicta who overcame
step away from that. I want to talk about
was coupled with a link to the
many early hurdles this year to reinvent and
Suffolk and where we are.
administration’s “Five-Point” plan to boost
revitalize itself for the future. It is quite the
results in the future and follows the heels of a honor to be included in its inaugural pages
I want to talk specifically about
and as always, the greatest of honors to be
Suffolk this year and my experience with my partnering with Barbri to provide better
your SBA President.
access to bar prep materials starting as soon
role in its student leadership. It’s an
as a student’s 1L year.
appropriate moment, halfway through our
Thank you all,
academic year, and it is a good moment. What
Even further, if we zoom in to the
I mean to say is—from the perspective of this SBA level, we met social setbacks when last Daniel Hahn
moment—it does seem good to be enrolled at year Fall Ball was declared cancelled. We
Suffolk. Now I know there are problems that
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Top: Governor Calvin Coolidge, laying the cornerstone of
Suffolk Law School in Boston in August 1920 Photo courtesy of
Familypedia.com
Right: Suffolk Law School Alumni Event 2016
As Presidential Search Continues, two New Trustees were confirmed by the board on Oct. 21.
Larry Smith, co-founder of the Nation Safe Drivers Group in Boca Raton, Florida, and Patricia J. “Trish” Gannon, executive
vice president of finance and planning and chief financial officer for Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston.
Photo Courtesy Suffolk University News Archive, November 2016
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DICTA: “We Will Survive”
By: Keicha Ivelisse Mora
Dicta has been the official Student newspaper 2016. Dicta has undergone a very arduous
of Suffolk Law School for over 40 years.
2016-2017 year. The board was very close to
losing its credentials as being apart of the
Suffolk Community. The staff this year has
“Dicta is the official student
worked very hard to ensure that our goal as
newspaper of the Suffolk Law School
the school newspaper to “enlighten, inform,
community, existing solely to help foster a
and educate” is not lost. This year we have
sense of community through communication. attempted a more modern approach to convey
The goal of dicta is to educate, inform,
Dicta to the public by printing a digital copy
enlighten, and entertain the student body
for the community to have readily available
through outstanding reporting and editorials
access to. The board has also been working to
on news, events, trends, sports, arts, food, and create as many events and opportunities as
popular culture.” This is the message the last possible to engage the student body in being
printed copy of Dicta conveyed to the Suffolk affiliated with such a prestigious body of
University student body in the year 2015Suffolk Law School spirit. Dicta has been
apart of the Suffolk Law School community
for over forty years giving students who are
not involved in a journal or clinic the
opportunity to share their perspectives on the
values of the University. It has been an honor
to keep the spirit of Dicta alive this year as a
2L student. My engagement as a staff member
has been invaluable because we have had the
pleasure of bringing Dicta back to life. As
Gloria Gaynor sang in her famous song, “I
will Survive”: “As long as I know how to
love, I know I'll stay alive, I've got all my life
to live, I've got all my love to give and I will
survive, Dicta will survive, hey, hey.”
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Suffolk Law School Community Engagement Snapshots
Suffolk University Pro-Bono Fair
Photos courtesy of The Boston Bar Association, Twitter, 2016
Boston Bar Association Luncheon
Massachusetts Bar Association President Jeffrey Catalano (right) visited
Professor R. Lisle Baker's (left) Positive Psychology for Lawyers class on
Tuesday, November 15, to discuss work-life balance, community
involvement, and self-care."
Photos courtesy of The Boston Bar Association, Twitter, 2016
Photo Credit Alison Farquhar
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Back at Suffolk University
Law School
Across
4. The Associate Dean of Students at SULS.
5. Person who accepts promise from
another.
8. A First Year law student is commonly
referred to as this.
9. Dean of Students at SULS.
10. Person who makes a promise to another.
11. A SULS program designed to ensure
academic success in Law School.
Down
1. Latin for guilty act.
2. An agreement between two people
reduced to writing.
3. By reason of the soil.
5. The Dean of SULS.
6. Textbooks in Law School are referred to
as this.
7. Suffolk Law Newspaper.
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VOL. XVI - NO. 1
OCTOBER 2015
Conversations with leadership:
A futuristic dean
shares his insights
T
Suffolk hires a lawyer to lead
M
argaret McKenna assumed her role as president of Suffolk University this past summer. Dicta sat down with her a week before
classes started, after a couple of months on the job,
to pick her brain about her past, her plans for the
University, and her plans for Suffolk Law School.
Dicta: What drew you to civil rights law? In what
kind of cases were you involved?
President McKenna: I grew up in a working-class,
immigrant community. My parents were public
school teachers who were involved in social justice
issues. I watched them. I always thought-as my parents did-that people deserved a fair break and did
not always get one. I witnessed discrimination, so
I grew up with a sense of “that’s just not right.” I
went to law school to become a civil rights lawyer.
I didn’t go to law school and then decide to practice as a civil rights attorney. I was a Title 7 Employment Discrimination lawyer through the Justice Department’s Honors Program in Washington,
D.C., the Civil Rights Division. The range of cases I
worked on involved police and fire departments in
Dallas, Fort Worth, Miami Dade County, and the entire city of Memphis — the issue involving Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the sanitation workers. I
sued the departments for race discrimination.
Continued on page 4
INSIDE:
President Jimmy Carter meets with his commission for the appointment of blacks to the federal judiciary in the 5th Circuit at the White House in June 1977. From left: Georgia state Sen. Horace Tate, Joe Reid; Coretta Scott King, staff
aide Margaret McKenna, President Carter; and Attorney General Griffin Bell. (Photo/Harvey Georges, AP)
he Suffolk University Law
School community need not
worry about whether or not
we will be prepared to maneuver
in, or keep up with, the changing
legal market. The school’s newest
dean, a former professor of the law
school, is nationally recognized for
his insight into the future of legal
education and law practice.
And if the furniture in his office is any indication of his tendency to keep up the latest trends
— he’s definitely at the cutting
edge: Dean Andrew Perlman’s office furniture is in line with the
latest trend — collaborative spaces that is believed to be attractive
to millennials. Even the American Bar Association has relied on
Dean Perlman’s insight concerning future trends: Dean Perlman
helped amend the Model Rules of
Professional Conduct so that they
account for changes in technology
and increased globalization.
Here at the Law School, Dean
Perlman is perhaps best known
for being the founding director of
SULS’ Institute on Law Practice
Technology and Innovation, and
Suffolk Law Dean Andrew Perlman using a Google Glass while teaching
in 2013. (Michael J. Clarke/Boston
Business Journal)
the Legal Technology and Innovation Concentration. Dean Perlman’s many accomplishments are
enumerated upon in various places on Suffolk University’s website, and in many other pages on
the World Wide Web, so Dicta sat
down with SULS’ newest Dean a
week before classes started to get
information that is not so apparent through other publications.
Continued on page 5
How to have a successBoston 2024: What went
ful social life at law school. wrong anyway? Page 7
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Toxic torts cases & HolSBA welcomes Secular
lywood films: David vs.
Legal Society. Page 3
Goliath. Page 2
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Editor-In-Chief
Shakesha Coleman
Managing Editor
Rebecca De Chellis
Art Director
Gamze Yalcin
Staff Writer
Elizabeth Mollie Heintelman
Contributors
Prof. Michael Rustad
Ramon Derek Brett Livingston
@SULS_Dicta
Dicta is the official student newspaper of the Suffolk Law School
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BY PROF. MICHAEL L. RUSTAD
or 25 years, I have defended America’s
common law of torts against constant
attacks and calls for “tort reform.” I
have testified before Congress twice, and
been a co-counsel for amicus parties litigating before the U.S. Supreme Court. My work
on punitive damages has been cited by both
the majority and dissent in punitive damages cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and
dozens of appeals courts.
My defense of American tort law is based
on its function as a flexible, free-market
based and cost-effective alternative to a
more rigid and costly European-style regulation system, social insurance scheme, or
some combination of the two — the most
widely employed alternatives to protect the
public and redress organizational harms.
I am skeptical that any bureaucratic construct could function as quickly and effectively as trial attorneys driven by the profit
motive (the “private attorney general”) to
alert and protect the public.
Tort law is a private law subject with a
public vision. Tort remedies have become
increasingly controversial since Ronald
Reagan employed a story about a man
telephoning from a booth near a highway
who was seriously injured by an uninsured
drunk driver. The man sued the phone
company, arguing the booth was too close
to a busy intersection and that the door of
the booth had been defective. Corporate officials strongly supported Reagan’s presidential campaign partly because they
feared that “Robin Hood juries” would assess unjustified awards out of sympathy to
the plight of injured plaintiffs.
In recent decades, trial lawyers have
been satirized in popular culture. The general public is amused, angered and perplexed by punitive damages verdicts, such
as in the McDonald’s “hot coffee” case.
While the hot coffee litigation is known by
nearly every student, few know the injuries
were severe and McDonald’s own records
demonstrated more than 700 prior complaints arising from super-heated coffee.
I use a variety of legal paradigms to help
students understand the McDonald’s coffee
case as a problem from both plaintiff and
defense perspectives. Its concrete fact pattern provides students an excellent opportunity to apply and flip a variety of creative
legal arguments. I ask students, for example, how they would use law and economics
concepts if they were representing McDonald’s Corp., which sold billions of cups of
coffee and registered only 700 complaints.
Does efficiency dictate lowering the tem-
F
perature to redress only 700 consumer injuries out of billions of cups of coffee?
Most law school classes have several
students with prior training in neoclassical
economics who are able to make complex
efficiency-based arguments as to whether
McDonald’s should or should not be subject
to liability and, if so, the amount of money necessary to deter future misbehavior.
A social justice approach, in contrast, employs very different logic and comes to conclusions more favorable to the plaintiff.
Hollywood filmmakers have countered
the popular view of tort law by portraying
the David vs. Goliath mismatch faced by
brave individuals suing for public safety.
My first brush with a famous case made
into a film was the plutonium contamination case in Silkwood v. Kerr-McGee Corp.,
464 U.S. 238 (1984), which became the subject of an Academy Award winning movie.
I was a year out of law school clerking
for Judge William E. Doyle of the 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. This tort action had been filed by Karen Silkwood’s estate against an Oklahoma nuclear facility to recover for plutonium contamination.
An Oklahoma jury awarded the plaintiff
$505,000 in compensatory damages and $10
million in punitive damages. The 10th Circuit reversed the award, arguing that it was
preempted by federal nuclear regulations.
The U.S. Supreme Court reversed and remanded, holding that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), and therefore Oklahoma, could consider a tort lawsuit arising
out of the plant’s lack of safety. The Oklahoma jury imposed punitive damages stemming from plutonium escaping Kerr-McGee’s fuel processing plant in Cimarron.
The director of the Health Physics Program at Oak Ridge National Labs testified that Kerr-McGee’s safety program
was “very weak and inadequate.” KerrMcGee’s inventory system was so lax that
18,1860 grams of plutonium could not be located — enough to place the entire country in jeopardy. (One half-gram of plutonium is enough to give 35 million people a
lifetime lung burden.) When I was clerking for Judge Doyle in the summer of 1985,
I wrote the dissenting view, opposing the
10th Circuit’s decision that the state action
was preempted by Oklahoma’s worker’s
compensation act.
I also had a slight role in the actual case
that became the basis of the film, A Civil Action, starring John Travolta as Jan
Schlictman, the plaintiff’s attorney that
litigated the toxic torts case of Anderson
v. W.R. Grace, 628 F. Supp. 1219 (D. Mass.
1986). The book and film portray the David vs. Goliath nature of a toxic tort lawsuit: the powerful corporate defense firms
against understaffed and poorly financed
plaintiffs’ attorneys.
Eight families alleged that two Fortune 500 corporations contaminated the local water supply with toxic industrial solvents. These Massachusetts families hired
a young attorney who brought civil suits
against W.R. Grace and Beatrice Foods
for recovery of damages associated with
wrongful death from cancers. The companies retained the services of two leading Boston law firms. I was on the defense
side as an associate in one of those powerful firms. The jury found W.R. Grace liable
for environmental pollution, while the case
against Beatrice Foods was held in favor
of the defendant. The action against W.R.
Grace was eventually disposed of through
a settlement for approximately $8 million.
The account of this now famous case
portays the personal tragedies behind this
legal conflict. On the human side we heard
of children who died slow deaths from leukemia and the eventual bankruptcy of the
plaintiffs’ attorneys who helped the families “construct” the legal dispute. On the
legal side, we heard of the inside life of a
courtroom, the large corporate law firms,
and the financially-struggling, small firm
taking on two legal giants. This film offers
a broad, contextualized view of law and legal practice, illustrating that lawsuits and
legal claims do not simply emerge out of
thin air; but, rather, a contextualized social
process and history to all legal claims.
The film, Erin Brockovich, depicts the
true story of a young woman who helped to
launch a toxic torts lawsuit that ultimately
resulted in a $333 million class-action settlement against a California utility for polluting the local water supply. Legal crusaders like the real-life Erin Brockovich
protect the public by uncovering corporate
conduct that threatens the community. My
role is even more attenuated in this case,
as I serve on the board of the Center for
Justice and Democracy with Brockovich.
Tort law is increasingly an institution of
social control and public policy, expanding
from its traditional role of compensation
and reducing the cost of accidents. Tort
law, like sunlight, acts as a disinfectant by
exposing hidden threats to the public welfare not detected by public authorities.
MICHAEL RUSTAD is Thomas Lambert Jr. Professor
of Law & Co-Director Intellectual Property Law
Concentration, Suffolk University Law School
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SBA welcomes Secular Legal Society
nterview with Ramon Derek Brett Livingston, President, Secular Legal Society:
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Dicta: Has your group tried to get SBA
recognition before?
SLS: We received a rejection and then
it was overturned on appeal. I wanted to
start an organization, so I had an inchoate
idea at the end of the year of starting a secular organization and I basically rushed to
get everything together for presentation. I
wanted to get recognition before the start
of the year for various reasons.
Dicta: If so, do you feel/believe that recognition/votes were denied because of
the nature of your group’s beliefs or people’s perception of what a “secular” group
stands for?
SLS: Looking back, I really do not know.
If you saw my second presentation, it obviously had a little sarcasm and animosity in it, so people might think that I felt
I was discriminated against at my first
presentation. There was one presentation
before us (Trust and Estates/Real Estate
Group) when we went in front of the COP.
Their presentation was good and afterwards, not many questions were posed by
the other presidents, and they were easily approved.
After we presented, Brendan (The CoPresident of the club) and I felt like a human punching bag. It just seemed like total chaos, and in addition, some of the
questions were a little baffling. A lot of
the presidents left before we finished answering questions, which we found out later was due to them having to attend class,
not out of disrespect. At the time though,
including the totality of my experiences in
life, it seemed like the same old discrimination I would get when I would tell someone that I do not believe in a deity.
But, most importantly, we have our organization right now, and we have moved
past that experience. I can say that I do
not harbor any ill feelings from that experience, and while it helped motivate my
second presentation, I am looking forward
to other things.
Dicta: What is the mission of your
group?
SLS: I think the main mission in our
group, just like any other group, is bring
like minds together. From a legal standpoint, we believe that it is important to address secularism in our legal community.
We are a underrepresented ever growing
group, and we seek to create a community
that empowers individuals to express their
ideas without fear of prejudice. We believe
that our justice system is a place for free
rational thought, and we would like to encourage an open dialogue regarding legislation involving church/state separation,
First Amendment rights, lack of secular
involvement in the political process, and
the stigma tied to those who have secular
beliefs.
Dicta: What stereotypes do your group’s
members face?
SLS: Although we are an ever growing
group, there are many stereotypes pretty
much everywhere in the world minus Japan, Scandinavia, and some parts of Europe. One of the biggest stereotypes is that
atheism associated with immoral behavior.
I feel that because my morals come from
within, I feel more genuine as a person, as
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opposed to following guidelines in a book
to base my sense of morality. I must stress
that not everyone believes this, but it is a
very prevalent stereotype.
Many people believe that atheists are
way too open with their views, when I believe it is the opposite. Many do not come
out because of fear of persecution, such
as people like my mother, who is a high
school teacher, tells me she tells others she
is agnostic when asked by other teachers
because of some backlash she received by
saying she was atheist, and that being agnostic sounds more palatable.
Another stereotype is that we want to
remove religion from everywhere. We believe that freedom of religion is fine as
long as it is not hurting others. There was
an episode this year of “What would you
do?” which shows a table of atheist people
angry at another table for praying in a restaurant. This is totally off base if you have
seen it, as we do not care about private citizens exercising their First Amendment
privileges, it is only government which we
seek to remove religion. The episode is so
off base and unrealistic, it is a complete
farce.
Also, just look at Congress. Being an
open atheist is political suicide.
Dicta: You gave a lot of good information
about your group during your presentation
at the SBA meeting. Can you repeat that
info. for the article? (I think you gave info.
re. history of secular groups in the U.S./
Int’l arena.)
SLS: I will have to think about that one.
Well, I have to say a few things to leave
you with:
̈ People with PhD’s are the most likely to be atheist.
̈ Harvard’s 2014 incoming class had
34% identify as atheist or agnostic, with
Yale at 32%.
̈ Four of the five safest countries in the
world are also in the top five in rates of
atheism.
̈ In 13 countries face execution with
secular beliefs
̈ Six states have archaic laws banning
secular people from office (I think most or
all are in the South)
̈ There is only one jurisdiction (Madison, Wis.) that bans non-religious discrimination — affording them the same freedom as religious people (the protections
cover housing, public accommodations and
employment)
One last thing: Gallup polls have always shown that atheists are the more distrusted group, year after year, below gays,
Muslims, etc. This year atheists are actually 2nd place, behind, socialists! I guess
I must be a really hated person being in
the last two groups! That gave me a little
laugh.
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Lawyer is hired to lead university
Continued from page 1
It was pretty amazing — that whole
Memphis suit — because you think when
you read about it that the problem had
been solved. But it hadn’t: The drivers
of the trucks were still white. The guys
picking up the garbage were still black.
In Memphis they still had, by custom, a
“black bed” rule in the fire department,
which was if you had one African-American officer you had to have three of everything so that the white officers would not
have to share the same bed and equipment
for each of the eight-hour shifts.
Dicta: How did you go from civil rights
law to education?
President McKenna: After I worked for the
Civil Rights Division, I ran the association
of all of the civil rights commissions conducting training around the country. Then
I worked in the White House. It was while
I was in the White House that I was trying
to figure out what I wanted to do when I
grew up. I was still interested in the same
issues-social justice and access. I thought
about what I could do that would have the
most impact.
That’s when I decided that being a college president would be the thing that
would have the most influence. As a lawyer, I thought you could have a lot of ripple effect on people’s lives with access issues, but I also thought as a university president you could create an environment that encourages people to be change
agents and that would have a catalytic effect on lives. So, I decided that’s what I
wanted to be.
While I was still in the White House, I
started to work on more issues surrounding education. I actually was involved in
the Bakke [Supreme Court] case. Then,
when we created the Department of Education-taking the “E” out of “H.E.W.” [referring to the former Health Education
and Welfare Department], I served on the
transition team. I was the second employee
of that department. I did it very purposefully. I spent a year there before President
Jimmy Carter lost the election. I had to decide then what I was going to do.
I came to Boston. I did talk to a couple of
(law) firms. But at that point, I knew that
I wanted to go into education. I spent one
semester teaching at Simmons [College]
and was a fellow at the Kennedy School [of
Government at Harvard University]. I took
a job as the director of the Bunting Institute and vice president of Radcliffe [College of Harvard University]. Then I start-
ed looking at college presidencies. I really preneurial Center at the Business School?
thought I wanted to run a public institution They should be connected. There are so
— because I’m committed to access — so many possibilities for creating interdisciplinary programs.
therefore you go to public institutions.
Dicta: What do you think of the changes
People asked me then what are you doing at Radcliffe. But the more I found out happening here — like those taking place
about public institutions, the more I dis- at the Law School? Were you involved in
covered that they didn’t have the flexibility any of the decision making?
President McKenna: These changes were
of private independent institutions. There
were a lot more politics and dictates from all made before I came. But I do know
legislators around line items in budgets. that law schools all over the country have
Before I could become a finalist for one shrunk. This is not news. When you’re
job, I had to interview with a state sen- graduating people and they can’t get jobs,
ator. That didn’t feel right to me. Then I you need to be responsible and make sure
thought maybe I could find a private insti- that you right-size your population. Law
tution whose mission is something differ- schools all over the country are doing this
ent. I found Lesley University which is a — and Suffolk is doing this as well — and it
private institution with a public mission — seems to make sense. If you have a smaller
population, you have to figure out what to
and that’s like Suffolk in some ways.
Dicta: When asked about what accom- do with your space. Plus, we need to support more cooperplishments as presation between the
ident of Lesley UniBusiness School and
versity you thought
‘I would like to hear from Law
the Law School.
you could transfer
Dicta: How does
to being the presiSchool students about what we
your training as
dent of Suffolk Unican do to make the Law School an attorney help
versity, you mentioned having put better, academically and in terms in your role as the
president of the Uni“Lesley on very solof other ways we can support
versity?
id financial ground
students.’
President
McKwith both a signifienna: Training as
cant growth in the
Suffolk President Margaret McKenna
a lawyer can help
endowment and the
you through life —
facilities.” Do you
the critical thinksee the changes at
Suffolk Law School as being an example of ing, the questioning, the arguing. It gives
you confidence to ask questions. My job is
that?
President McKenna: No, the situation at to ask questions until I understand. Also,
Lesley was very different than the situa- it’s good not to be intimidated by lawyers
tion here at Suffolk. Lesley grew very sig- when you’re a CEO. When people say you
nificantly. When I started there, there can’t do that, I can say what do you mean
were 2,000 students. When I left, there I can’t do that? Being a lawyer is helpful
were 10,000 students — so the campus grew when you’re a CEO.
Dicta: You mentioned in a previous insignificantly.
That’s not going to happen at Suffolk. In terview that we need to ask alumni for
terms of stability here, we need to diversi- help. What are your plans for attracting
fy our revenues and raise some money. We Law School alumni?
President McKenna: First, we [referencneed to focus on the programs that distinguish us from others. I did that at Lesley, ing the dean of the Law School Andrew
too. And that’s what I’ve said many times: Perlman] should ensure that people who
“You should only do what you do as well or want to enter the law profession can. Scholarships and financial aid are very imporbetter than anyone else.”
What are the things that we do? There tant. We should also make sure that peoare a number of things we do here that are ple who enter the profession and who wish
unique — the Intellectual Property Pro- to pursue public service are able to do that
gram at the Law School, the Energy and and repay debt
There are programs at the Law School
the Environment Program, and the Housing Discrimination Clinic. What’s the con- that deserve and need to be supported —
nection between the Intellectual Property like the flagship programs — those that
Program at the Law School and the Entre- are as good as or better than anyone else’s,
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such as the Intellectual Property Program.
That program has a rich history and there
is a dramatic need in the commonwealth
for [what Suffolk Law School grads have to
offer]. There is a demand for the skills our
graduates have and we need to make sure
we have the solution to that demand.
Dicta: How can current law students
help you?
President McKenna: I would like to hear
from Law School students about what we
can do to make the Law School better, academically and in terms of other ways we
can support students. What would make
the Law School a better experience than
it is today? What is it missing? What is it
we’re doing that could be done in a different way? The best people to give you advice are the people receiving the services
we provide-and those are our students.
Dicta: What’s your vision for the Law
School? What advice do you have for us?
President McKenna: I would say the same
things I’ve said to the other schools [in the
University], which is, “Focus — you can’t
be all things to all people.” You need to
be known for a few things and what are
those things. When you’re known for a few
things, your rankings go up; it’s cause and
effect. You don’t think about how to raise
your rankings; you think about how do we
get better — then you get known for those
things, and your rankings go up.
Dicta: Some, students in particular, are
not very happy about some of the changes taking place at the Law School. What
are your thoughts about the concern that
the Law School is losing its identity/exclusivity?
President McKenna: Sometimes people make assumptions [about the reason
things were done]. The number one issue
in universities is communication. One of
the things I did [concerning some of the
changes taking place at the University]
was put up a website, put up Q & As, and
put out weekly communications.
˿˿˿˿
e discussed the changes to the Law
School’s bookstore. President McKenna noted that the bookstores are on her
list of issues to look at and encouraged students to be vocal about their desires concerning the bookstore.
Dicta: In an interview, you described
yourself as having grown up in a working
class community. Do you believe that your
background put you at a disadvantage as a
law student?
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Futuristic dean shares his insights
Continued from page 1
Dicta: You partnered to create the Legal Technology Audit. What would you like
the Suffolk Law School community to know
about it?
Dean Perlman: The Legal Technology Audit was created because so many lawyers
don’t know how to use basic software, like
Word, Excel, and Acrobat, despite its importance to everyday practice. The Audit
is designed to ensure that lawyers are using the basic tools at their disposal as efficiently and effectively as possible.
Dicta: Does an attorney or firm get access to the Legal Tech Audit through the
website,www.legaltechaudit.com?
Dean Perlman: The website just gives information about the Audit itself. The Audit
is not on that website. A law school or professor [or corporate entity or anyone else]
wanting access to the Audit fills out a form
that is available through the site and gets
access that way.
Dicta: You were one of 10,000 people chosen to sample Google Glass — the futuristic specs outfitted with a small computer
screen over the right eye, a camera and
an Internet connection. Can you talk about
that experience? What are your thoughts
on this tool being widely used by attorneys,
given your interest in legal compliance and
technology?
Dean Perlman: Being a part of the Google Glass Project was a lot of fun. I enjoyed
getting my hands on a cutting edge piece
of technology, and I used it in my classroom on a few occasions. Quite frankly, I don’t view it as something that will
change the landscape in terms of how lawyers practice. I think it’s a very niche device that’s going to have limited use, but
there are other emerging technologies that
I do think have the potential to change not
just how legal services are delivered but
change the economy more generally.
Dicta: How long was the trial?
Dean Perlman: It wasn’t really a trial. I
got my hands on it, and still have it. I’m
happy to allow students to give it a try.
Dicta: You commented that the Google Glass could be useful to the shy student
that would prefer to text a question. Did
any students text questions to you while
you were wearing the Google Glass?
Dean Perlman: Yes! I got lots of text messages, and many times it was from students who were not ordinarily participating in class-so it did seem to have that
effect. It did have a purpose. I just don’t
think it’s going to change the way we do
ue to have the tools, knowledge, and skills
things in a fundamental way.
Dicta: Do you think a tool like Google they need to be successful. This includes
Glass could potentially be counterproduc- an appreciation for innovation and having
tive concerning use in the law school class- a better understanding of business and firoom, as lawyers need to be able and will- nance. That’s one of the reasons I’m very
ing to speak up. Do you think Google Glass excited that the Sawyer Business School —
the graduate school — will have a presence
could be a crutch for some students?
Dean Perlman: I wouldn’t want it to have on the 5th floor of Sargent Hall. The phys[the effect of encouraging students to just ical proximity of that type of knowledge
sit back]. But it does give students the op- and expertise will allow students to take
portunity to ask questions they might not better advantage of it. The bottom line is
otherwise ask. I don’t think it makes stu- that there is a whole range of new knowldents less willing to participate. I think it edge and skills that students need to have
today that they didn’t need to have 20 or 30
gives them another avenue to participate.
Dicta: What were some takeaways from years ago.
Dicta: Speaking of the changes takthe Legal Tech Show in Chicago, where
you spoke at the plenary session, that you ing place at the Law School, can you talk
would like implemented/followed through about the changes happening to the 5th
with here at SULS, maybe through the Ac- floor? Some, students in particular, are not
celerator Clinic or the legal tech program very happy about some of the changes taking place at the law
here? (Have you alschool.
ready seen the takeDean Perlman: Saraways implemented
‘I view my role as helping
gent Hall was crehere?)
ated for a student
Dean Perlman: The
students, not the other way
body of 1,600. Startbig picture point
from a legal tech- around. I guess the way that you ing this fall, we will
nology perspective
all can help me is by telling me be a school of 1,200.
It makes no sense
is that the legal inwhat you need.’
for us to pay all of
dustry is undergoing
the expenses associsignificant change.
Suffolk Law Dean Andrew Perlman
ated with a building
Just like every othintended to house
er part of the econo1,600 students with
my, there are changes being driven by technology. If you’re go- only 1,200 students. It wouldn’t make sense
ing to be a modern legal professional, you for me to take your tuition money to pay
need to understand how technology is used for a building that’s larger than we need.
in the industry. The big takeaway mes- We need to be smaller for a variety of reasage is that lawyers of tomorrow need to sons: The number of students applying to
embrace technological change and inno- law school has shrunk by half over the last
vation and understand how they can use it six or seven years, and the number of jobs
to their advantage to deliver legal services available for graduates has also declined.
more efficiently and effectively. If Suffolk So, it’s been a very concerted and intentionLaw students are able to do that, they will al effort to become smaller.
Now to become smaller in a building
be better positioned to succeed in the 21st
that was created for a larger class size,
century legal marketplace.
Dicta: What’s your vision for the law we necessarily need to share it with other
parts of the university. There was a very
school?
Dean Perlman: Traditionally, Suffolk Law careful study done to figure out what would
School has been focused on training practi- be the appropriate part of the university to
cally-oriented professionals — people who include in Sargent Hall. And the graduate
hit the ground running. We’ve been known school of business is the perfect match, befor that for a very long time. We need to cause lawyers today — legal professionals
make sure that we keep our curriculum of all kinds — really need to have a good
up to date so that we ensure that contin- understanding of business and finance if
ues to be the case in the 21st century. That they’re going to be successful.
Whether you’re representing large comincludes making sure we have an understanding of technology and the new ways panies, or individuals with trusts and estates needs, or small businesses — you
legal services are being delivered today.
I want to make sure our students contin- need to have a good sense of business and
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finance. If you run your own small practice, that’s a business. So understanding
business is really a big part of what lawyers need to be able to do. The law school
needs to be smaller, and sharing the space
with a natural partner in our educational
efforts makes a lot of sense.
Dicta: Do you have any specific plans for
collaboration between the Law and Business Schools?
Dean Perlman: I want us to look at our
curriculum to figure out how we might incorporate more business and financial education. The specifics of that would be up
to our curriculum committee. Another possibility is to find synergies between the entrepreneurship offerings of the business
school, and our programming. More crossteaching-perhaps some business school
faculty teaching more law-related courses
and vice versa — might be helpful to both
schools’ students.
One thing I want to make sure that students understand — because I’ve heard this
misunderstanding come up in a number
of different contexts — is that there is no
merging of the schools. There is a Sawyer
Business School. There is a Suffolk Law
School. Those are two different entities
with two different deans and two different
faculties. I’ve heard people say things like
“the Business School is taking over the Law
School” and misinformation of that sort. Of
course, I hope we’ll be able to work more
closely with each other, but at the end of the
day, we are still two different schools that
are part of a single university.
Dicta: Have any faculty or students
shared any of their concerns about the
changes with you?
Dean Perlman: When I’ve heard concerns,
it’s usually been based on some kind of
misinformation — like when people have
raised the concerns about the Business
School taking over the Law School. I have
heard that as a concern, but it’s based on
something that’s not accurate.
Dicta: Some students are unhappy about
the Law School bookstore selling very few
items with the Suffolk Law School logo on
it. What are your thoughts on this concernthat some students feel that we’re losing
our identity and exclusivity behind some of
the changes?
Dean Perlman: I haven’t heard any concerns along those lines, but students certainly should be able to buy Suffolk Law
sweatshirts [and other items] that say
“Suffolk Law” on them.
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Futuristic dean
Continued from page 5
If that’s not the case, let me know and
I will look into it! {We then discussed that
the Suffolk Law School bookstore is now a
spirit store-a store that sells items mostly
with the Suffolk University logo, and that
this location was chosen for a spirit store
due to the prominence of its location.}
Dicta: How can current law students
help you?
Dean Perlman: I think the better question is how I can help you. I really want
to hear from students about the concerns
they have and the issues they want to see
addressed. I view my role as helping students, not the other way around. I guess
the way that you all can help me is by telling me what you need.
Dicta: Do you have any particular plans
for engaging alumni?
Dean Perlman: I want to engage alumni at every turn — in every aspect of the
Law School’s work — such as speaking
with prospective students as well as students who are looking for jobs. We need
alumni to help support a lot of the Law
School’s initiatives. I want to keep alums
involved in the life of the Law School.
Dicta: You obtained an LLM. Many
people think the LLM is for attorneys who
went to law school in other countries that
Lawyer to lead
Continued from page 4
President McKenna: It’s interesting. I
went to Emmanuel College, which is a
pretty middle class place. I think the first
time I experienced a class difference was
my first year at Radcliffe, at Harvard. I
had already been in Washington. I had already been in the White House. But there
were certain cultural experiences that
others at Radcliffe and Harvard had and
assumed that I had that I did not, and certain language that was new to me even
though I had done all these things.
That’s the first time I recognized that I
was truly from a different kind of environment, that I was not upper middle class,
and that I had come from a much more
working class background. There were
words that I had never heard before.
I remember going to a meeting of the
Seven Sister Schools [when they existed]
and this guy said, you know I really miss
the old days when our students came and
they appreciated the opera, and museums, and they understood the importance
of culture and they had been to Europe,
and they understand the Renaissance.
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just want to learn about American legal
system. Do you agree? What is the value of an LLM? Why did you pursue one?
When you went to law school, why did attorneys pursue the LLM?
Dean Perlman: Yes, there are a lot of foreign students who pursue an LLM in this
country. That’s one use. They also can be
useful to people who already have a JD
and are looking for additional education
in a specific field. The most common one
is an LLM in tax. So people who want to
focus on tax often get an LLM for that
purpose.. But there are other types as
well. The one that I pursued was a general LLM that I got while pursuing a career
in academia. It was the kind of LLM one
would get only if you wanted to get into legal education. There are different kinds
of LLMs, and they serve different purposes. They aren’t for everyone. The vast majority of lawyers don’t need LLMs.
Dicta: Is there anything you want to say
to the SULS community.
Dean Perlman: It is a deep honor to be
dean of this law school, where I have been
on the faculty for 14 years. I love the students here. I want to help them in any
way I can. My door is always open. If people have questions or concerns, or want
me to attend a particular event, please
reach out to me. I really want to stay in
touch with students even though I won’t
be teaching my normal courses anymore.
He went on and on and on: and now
they come — they don’t understand any
of this. We have to expose them to everything. I thought, isn’t that what college is
about? Isn’t that a good thing? Isn’t that
exciting for you? I’m one of those people
who had not experienced opera, and museums, and that kind of culture. I thought:
Okay, I get it. I’m not one of you.
Dicta: Is there anything you want to
add? Anything you want to tell the Law
School community? Anything we should
know about our new president?
President McKenna: The University is
stronger if all three parts of the University work together. So, one, one, and one
don’t make three; they make five. And
the bridges and the programs that we can
create will strengthen this place.
I’m anxious and excited to see that
happen. I’m looking forward to working
with the Law School to see what kind of
emphasis the Law School will have with
its new dean. I’m interested in working
with the faculty. I’m interested in working with the Law School, and the Business
School, and the College of Arts & Sciences
to see what we can create as a university
that uses the strengths of all of our programs and schools.
Pursuing a successful
social life in law school
Y
ou’ve probably heard that law school
is a lot like high school. That seems
to be especially true here at Suffolk,
where many are insecure about the School’s
ranking-or lack thereof. It seems that the
competition is heightened here because students believe that coming from a Tier 4
school, it is especially important that they
“beat out” others for the top spot-as only the
top students have a chance at “Big Law.”
This false belief is probably why many
students go to bed wondering “how other
people are doing,” why many students are
frustrated by students who keep to themselves and do not share information about
themselves, and the reason some of the relationships formed in law school are superficial and the source of a lot of confusion.
Insecurity is a funny thing. Some law
students need so badly to size up their competition, that when students do not readily
share information about themselves, they
get “investigated” by others. This can include the insecure student attempting to
gain access to another’s grades, or making
up information about others to make themselves feel better about the unkown.
And of course: This is “school.” There
seems to be something about putting people together in a room with one person that
holds the balance of their fate that provokes competition and gossip-yes gossip.
Yet, lawyers are supposed to represent the
epitome of critical thought! What is critical
about jumping to conclusions about people
you do not know, and repeating-and believing-information, the source of which you
are unsure-and information that is none of
your business in the first place?!
So, for those of us who are committed to
staying sane, here is some advice for navigating law school social life.
1. T.H.I.N.K. I wish I could take credit for
this, but can’t. It’s good advice for lawyers
and life. THINK before you speak. Ask:
T — Is it true? This should be a nobrainer for lawyers. Why say or repeat a
statement that you cannot verify?
H — Is it helpful? What you’re about to
say about someone may be true, but will it
add value to anyone’s existence?
I — Is it inspiring? Are the words you
are uttering going to build someone up or
tear someone down. (And what’s your motive for saying it?)
N — Is it necessary? Every fact you
know and opinion you have does not need
to be uttered. Like when you’re writing a
legal memo: Make every word count. Every word should have a positive purpose.
K — Is it kind? If you’re saying something about someone that you would not
like said about you, you probably should
not say it — even if it is true.
2. Decide what type of winner you want to
be. Do you want to win because others are
not as good as you, or because you are excellent even when not being compared to
anyone? If you are excellent — irrespective
of your surroundings — others’ grades and
accomplishments won’t matter to you. You
will focus on yourself and your goals, and
not worry about what “your competition”
is doing. It’s natural to wonder why people
are all dressed up: “Is there an interview
going on today that I don’t know about?”
“Where’s that person going?” Get over it:
If you’ve done what you’re supposed to do,
you’ll know what interviews are scheduled
and when you need to be dressed up.
3. Don’t hang around people who provoke
panic. That person in your study group who
spends the first 15 minutes whining about
being stressed out will probably transfer
that stress to you. Maybe you should just
peek at each other’s notes every once in a
while, and study by yourself — or with people who handle stress a little better.
4. Stay away from negativity. People tell
who they are by their actions. That classmate that (thinks) telling someone’s business is cute, is really probably just lonely
and insecure and thinks that you will find
him or her more interesting if they seem
to “know” others. And newsflash: This person will potentially talk about you at some
point, too. Nice people do nice things. And
since law school is largely about networking, don’t get caught with the wrong crowd.
Further: Law school is stressful enough.
5. Get to know people for yourself. As a law
student, you are being trained to get the
facts for yourself. Don’t rely on others’ perceptions or interpretations. Feel your own
emotions. Remember that people provide
descriptions and characterizations based
upon their own experiences, background
and understanding — which may not be
accurate. It’s tempting to follow the crowd
and have common enemies, but you might
miss out on important relationships and
networking opportunities when you pass
up interacting with someone based upon
another’s (probably) false perception.
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What went wrong with Boston 2024
By Elizabeth Mollie Heintzelman
n January 2015, during the beginnings
of an epic Boston winter, the city was
granted the U.S. bid for the Summer
2024 Olympics. On Feb. 6, 2015, Suffolk Law
School held the first public meeting on Boston 2024. However, six months later, Mayor
Marty Walsh informed Bostonians that the
dream for a Boston Olympics was dead. So,
what was wrong with Boston 2024?
With mistakes upon mistakes mounting,
Boston 2024 was doomed from the start.
Lack of public support and a brutal winter, which affected the city’s already ailing public transportation system, were only the beginning of issues for the Olympic
bid. While architectural plans were magnificent, ideas such as having beach volleyball in Boston Common, and having
Harvard be the host of multiple events did
not garner much support.
Also, people involved in Boston 2024 cited money as an issue with the bid, and individuals running the Olympic Commit-
I
tee lacked experience in orchestrating an
event of this magnitude. On the other hand,
supporters thought Boston 2024 would be
positive for the city by improving infrastructure and promoting tourism; but their
voices were muted by opposition. With all
these issues looming and citizens’ taxes inevitably increasing, it was hard for anyone
to get excited for such an undertaking.
As public support dwindled, the negatives overshadowed the positives, and Suffolk Law students agreed with the public’s
dislike for Boston 2024. Second year law
student John Wilton has lived in the Boston
area all his life.
Although he thought Boston 2024 would
have been great for the city and its infrastructure, he said, “I think the drama surrounding the bid and its ensuing failure
was an embarrassment to the city, and
many of the people involved.” While Wilton sided with the majority that the bid
was going to fail, he cited a Lord Byron
quote stating that “the road to hell is paved
with good intentions” and that the people
involved were not to blame.
Also, 2L Jen King, who lives on the
South Shore, an hour from downtown Boston, had similar opinions on Boston 2024 to
Wilton. King said, “I don’t think it would
have been wise for Boston to participate
in the 2024 Olympics [because] construction jobs, especially such urban large scale
ones as this, are difficult to budget for, thus
the final cost is unclear and not transparent to taxpayers and city residents.” While
increasing jobs in the city would be great,
King makes an excellent point that taxpayers would be burdened by the question of
the final budget. Without a concrete num-
ber for the Olympic budget, it was difficult
for Bostonians to support this venture.
If Boston would have the opportunity to
host again, Suffolk Law students remain
apprehensive. As Wilton said, “the 2024 bid
left a bad enough taste in the International
Olympic Committee mouth that they will
likely not offer another opportunity for a
while.” This statement could not be more
true, as the city deals with transportation,
education and housing issues.
“Our city’s residents can barely rely on
the MBTA to get them to work or school
— why should we promise upgrades for the
sole benefit of tourists that will be here for
less than three weeks?” exclaims King.
As Suffolk students weigh in, they agree
with the general consensus: Boston 2024
was doomed from the start. While new arenas and exciting fanfare would have been
great for the city, there are desperate improvements needed to restore Boston’s infrastructure as a modern American city.
Boston should focus on 2015, not 2024.
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VOL. XV∙ NO. 4
MAY 2014
Congratulations class of 2014
Commencement
Speech
By Allie Deangellis
Change is inevitable. That’s easy to understand. Inertia mandates that life as we
conceive it today will be different tomorrow, ten days from now, ten years from
now. What is not so easy to understand is
how we’ve come to collectively acknowledge the passage of time as a vehicle for
our transformation. Things don’t simply
change; they are imbued with a sense of
betterment, a sense of purpose. And we
pay homage to this ideal, unknowingly perhaps, every time we tell someone to ‘give it
time’; that ‘things will get better’; and ‘good
things come to those who wait’. Like the gi-
Continued on page 3
Write-On Competition Approaches
By: Alex Maur
It’s May 14th, and you’ve just walked out of
your Torts final – you’re done 1L! The last thing
you’ll want to do is think about anything school
or law related, and you shouldn’t! Instead, you
should probably do a lot of relaxing, sleeping
and binge Netflix watching for a couple of days.
You’ll want to do a lot of resting up, because on
May 19th at 9:00am all the important materials
for the Write-On Competition will become available on Campus Cruiser.
The way I would describe 1L year is like
some kind of extreme marathon, so I know that
it’s hard to imagine sitting down and committing two more weeks to learning a new style
of writing and submitting a complete piece of
writing. But it’s worth it! Joining a journal provides students with the opportunity to develop
great editing and writing skills that employers
always appreciate. You’ll definitely be surprised
how well you know that pesky Bluebook by the
end next year. And being on a journal isn’t only
about the work; it’s also a great chance to meet
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Inside
Marathon, Pages 4 & 5
Letter to SULS Women, Page 6
Justice John Marshal, Page 7
Commentary Page 8
Ski Trip, Page 9
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Don’t Forget About
the Write On!
Continued from Page 1
2Ls from other sections and 3Ls
that are on each of the editorial
boards. It’s definitely another way
to branch out and meet some new
people during your second year.
My biggest piece of advice for
the competition would be to take
it one day at a time. Although it
seems daunting to tackle an unknown piece of legal writing, the
information packets you will receive on the first day will be full
of details and they will make clear
what is expected for your submission. Everyone is in the same boat,
so there’s no point worrying too
much about the fact that you’ve
never written anything like this
before.
While everyone has different
approaches, I took
the first week to concentrate on getting familiar with the topic,
research the relevant
case law and outline
my piece. Then I
slowly started the actual writing process.
Keep in mind that you
Tuesday, April 27: Open
will likely get frusHouse hosted by all the journals
trated and want to just
on 4th Floor from 11am-1pm and
give up on the whole
5pm-7pm. Come by ask any questhing. I remember
tions you might have about the
finding it hard to stay
Write-On Competition.
motivated for a few
reasons, including the
Wednesday, May 14:
fact that this isn’t a
Last day of finals.
graded exercise and
since it is completely
Monday, May 19:
optional. Just rememCompetition Writing Packber that it will only
ets will be available on Campus
be more frustrating
Cruiser at 9:00am.
if you end up submitting nothing at all.
Sunday, June 1:
Good luck on all
All submissions are due on Camyour finals! The finpus Cruiser by 5:00pm.
ish line is definitely
in sight. So make sure
Sunday, July 13:
to conserve some of
Honor Boards will make calls
that 1L energy for the
notifying all selected students (keep
post-finals Write-On those phones on ring).
you won’t regret it!
Important
Dates:
thesuffolklawpaper@gmail.com
Editor-in-Chief
Jennifer Faillace
Opinion Editor
Alex Zamenhof
Managing Editor
Alexandra Hassell
Staff Writers & Copy Editors
Allie DeAngelis
Jeff Gangi
Shannon O’Connor
Lucas Oliver
Alex Maur
Art Director
Yuen Yi Chung
News Editor
Andrew K. Di Iorio
Layout Editor
Hillary S. Cheng
Board of Publishers
Jennifer Faillace
Alexandra Hassell
Melanie Klibanoff
Casandra Medeiros
Dicta is the official student newspaper of the Suffolk Law School
community, existing solely to help foster a sense of community
through communication. The goal of Dicta is to educate, inform,
enlighten, and entertain the student body through outstanding
reporting and editorials on news, events, trends, sports, arts, food,
and popular culture.
The opinions and views expressed in Dicta are not necessarily
those of the Dicta staff and are not the opinions of Suffolk
University Law School or the student body. Suffolk Law School
students control and conduct all facets of this paper. Dicta does not
discriminate against any persons and complies with the university
policies concerning equality.
Dicta encourages students, alumni, faculty, and administrators to
submit letters to the editor and articles for publication. Submissions
should include the author’s name, class and/or position at the
university or in the community. Dicta reserves the right to edit
and publish all submissions. Anonymous submissions will not be
published.
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Commencement 2014
Continued from Page 1
gantic flag aloft in Sargent Hall, this is a notion
uniquely American. Every time we utter one of
these phrases we espouse a National belief that
ties our sense of self-worth directly to our ability to improve ourselves: “Pull yourself up by
your Bootstraps” they say.
The decision to attend law school is a decision many of us made with the prospect of our
own future prosperity in mind. Much like the
Great Generation who so admired self-reliance,
many people become lawyers so they can make
their own luck. Despite ourselves and this oftromanticized bootstrap mentality, I think what
we all have learned is not simply how to make
ourselves better, but how to enrich the world
around us.
Making ourselves better, making things better, it doesn’t end at graduation. Rather it beings
today in this beautiful space. The Wang Theater
opened its doors in 1925 under a different moniker. Initially named the Metropolitan Theater,
this place was the unofficial Boston landmark of
the roaring twenties and remains the largest theater in New England today. Since its restoration,
Commencement is
a day for reconciling
how to begin with what
we’ve just finished.
Change is inevitable,
but what remains
constant is the value
we’ve invested in ourselves...
we can experience the theater now as it stood in
all its original splendor.
Look around you. This theater is not a temple
unto itself but a testament to the great American
works that have been performed here. It is not
admired because it is beautiful—it is admired
because it stands to serve the people who come
to enjoy it. Our law school education may be
compared to this theater: elaborate like these
gilded walls and forged by the same decades of
history. The three or four long years of training stand as unwavering as these Ionic columns
while our tedium over legal minutiae is the paint
chipping at the walls. The groundwork you’ve
laid is as dense and precise as the smooth marble footing by which we shall make our descent
out of this place. We went to law school for ourselves, but I believe we’ve left with a greater
sense of purpose for this education.
Commencement is a day for reconciling how
to begin with what we’ve just finished. Change
is inevitable, but what remains constant is the
value we’ve invested in ourselves, and the
wealth we create when we use that value in the
service of others. I want to say we all have the
courage to be optimistic; and as the Chairman
of the Board would remind us, the best is yet
to come.
Thank you Mom and Dad and Congratulations Class of 2014.
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26.2 Miles is Wicked Far
The 2014 Boston Marathon
By Melanie Klibanoff (Editor-In-Chief)
In the devastating aftermath of the 2013 Boston Marathon, several in the Suffolk Law community qualified and registered for the 2014
Boston Marathon. On April 21st, along with
about 36,000 runners, Mark Dolan (3L), Greg
Galizo (2L), Meghan McIver (2L), David Chorney, and Melanie North (library staff) ran the
26.2-mile stretch. In addition to the training and
Greg Galizo stops to work out the cramps
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physical pain, many of our Suffolk Law members raised funds for their respective charities.
As law students, most of us live in between
the 5th and 7th floors of the Moakley Law Library. Melanie North, the circulation reserve
supervisor for the past 14 years, is part of the
heart and backbone of that library many Suffolk law students call our second home. When
asked about why she ran and what it meant to
finish, Mel said, “I ran the marathon this year
due to the tragic events that happened last year,
I was stopped at mile
25 and was unable to
finish. I have survived
cancer twice, surgeries, treatments and the
High fives for Mark Dolan
sudden loss of my father in 2012, which is why
I decided to run last year to prove to everyone
that struggles with adversities that you can over
come anything to achieve your dream. Strength,
passion, determination, and pure heart led me to
the finish this year. Crossing that finish line was
a dream come true for me, so many emotions;
tears of joy, and pride were present as soon as
I crossed! It was a day that I will never forget,
a day of pure joy and accomplishment.” North
ran for Team Mass Eye & Ear and embodies the
resilience and determination the Suffolk Law
community represents.
A fellow section mate, Meghan McIver (2A),
ran the marathon for family, friends, survivors,
first responders, and the Lenny Zakim Foundation. “This years Boston Marathon was unbelievable! I was so honored and proud to be
running for this great city!” Meghan raised over
$2,100 on behalf of the Lenny Zakim Fund.
Another section mate, Greg Galizio (2A), ran
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Marathon Monday
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solo this year after running on the MA
State Police team last year. “Growing
up in Massachusetts, I always wanted
to run the Boston Marathon. During
my 1L year in 2013 I trained for the
marathon for months but became one
of the 5,000 plus runners who were
stopped inside mile 25 when the finish line was shutdown. There was no
shortage of motivation to run the Boston Marathon this year and be a small
part of what was an extraordinary day
for this city. Turning onto Boylston
Street, seeing the scores of people
lining the course well into the afternoon as I finally finished this race on
Monday was something I will never
forget.”
On behalf of Dicta, congratulations
to all that ran! It is a major accomplishment and a lifetime experience.
We are Boston Strong, but even more
we are #SuffolkStrong! Thank you all
for proudly representing the Suffolk
Law community.
Melanie North
Meghan McIver
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An Open Letter to the
Women of Suffolk Law
By Allie Deangelis
If I have to sit through another class where the girl in front of me is online
shopping I am going to scream. I’m serious. I stand behind this not because
it is distracting to those around you, which it is, and not because it is a waste
of what is often borrowed money, which it is. It’s because of Katy Perry.
It all started back in 2012 when Katy Perry, in her acceptance speech for
Woman of the Year Award, proclaimed that she was not a feminist. And expectedly, the twitter sphere raged on. When everyone had just about moved
on with their lives and their editorial pieces, Miss Katy was asked earlier this
month whether or not she considered herself a feminist. And with an utterly
quizzical tone, she proclaimed that she was. Redemption? Almost.
Why do we care about Katy Perry. We aren’t sure she knows what the
term ‘feminist’ means, not to mention the fact that we, as a group of decently-educated Americans, should publicly announce once and for all we
no longer need people like Seth Rogan or Katy Perry to make politically
charged statements about topics they have zero education or relevant experience concerning. If you don’t resent the fact that celebrities, Canadians no
less, can speak before a Congressional hearing and you can’t, then you might
as well become a felon, move to Alabama, and disenfranchise yourself. We
care about Katy Perry (not to mention Beyoncé’s new “***Flawless”) because finally a famous female artist is striking the right chord.
The internet is the most ubiquitous near essential coming of the next wave
of something we haven’t even thought of yet; or maybe it’s something we
cannot imagine. Besides instantaneous communication, it’s most dramatic
effect to date bears on the collection and organization of data. Availability
of vast amounts of information, recalled effortlessly, is changing our quest
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for knowledge in a way that will hopefully change the world. And you, you
are using it to buy shoes.
When I see a woman shopping during class, I see her fulfilling a stereotype. When I see a woman shopping during class, I see her endless pursuit of
stuff. I see her perpetuating some endless cycle of consumption. When I see
a woman shopping during class, I see her imagining how to adorn herself like
an ornament and how to hold herself like the pictures on the screen. When I
see a woman shopping during class, I see her wasting her time.
‘Feminist’ isn’t an easy word to throw around in conversation. In fact,
it’s downright alienating. Some people don’t like to hear the word feminist
because they are tired of hearing about an imaginary war between the sexes
fought by bra-burners and lesbians, and then there are some that think men
and women have met parity and there’s no need to bring it up in the first
place. That Hilary seems to be doing pretty well for herself. While Hilary is
doing pretty well for herself, there’s no reason to stop there. Just because we
have a black president doesn’t mean racism is no longer a problem.
Katy Perry proclaimed herself a feminist because she is a strong, professional, successful woman, and she stands behind that assessment. It’s not
about competing with men, it’s not about replacing men, it’s about sustaining
meaningful opportunities for women in a world where over half of college
graduates are female but comprise less than one-fifth of the executives in
businesses of the Fortune 500 and less than 20% of the seats in Congress.
Perry’s proclamation is important because she is reinforcing the notion of female-empowerment amidst this unequal statistical backdrop, and we should
take note of the message regardless of the fact it comes from a woman who
shoots whip cream from her bikini top.
Feminism isn’t dead, but it does need smart, professional women like
yourself to keep its manifesto alive. Would you call yourself a feminist? In
public? To a stranger? To Taylor Swift? If you’ve never even thought about
it, maybe it’s time to figure that out. Feminism is a good thing and the more
we openly stand behind women who publicly support it, the more mainstream it will become.
It’s Not Goodbye,
It’s See You Later
A Farewell to Faillace
By Melanie Klibanoff
There comes a time when the torch gets passed down. People graduate and
move on to what we have all worked for at least three years for, the chance to
practice as an attorney. Jennifer Faillace, Dicta’s Editor-In-Chief for the past
few years, is graduating and taking the MA and VT bar exams.
From the entire Dicta team of staff writers, layout, editors, and eboard members – we wish you well Jenny as you depart us and embark on your incredibly
bright future as an attorney. I have enjoyed working with you and honored to
call you a friend. You better come back for “Fries and Pies” next year!
Jennifer Faillace (R) & Melanie Kibanoff
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MAY 2014
Justice John Marshall:
By Daniel Benevento
The Preservation of Power
Thomas Jefferson had just defeated John
Adams in the fourth race for the presidency.
Adams was a Federalist while Jefferson was of
the opposing Anti-Federalist worldview. Political parties were new labels for old ideologies
and both of these men had deep convictions concerning the future of their new country. Adams
foresaw his soon-to-be successor’s plans, which
were bent on abolishing Federalism. So, within
the final week of Adams’ presidency, Adams
appointed forty-two Federalist justices of the
peace in order to maintain power for his party.
One of the men whom Adams appointed was
named William Marbury. However, Marbury’s
commission by Adams, which had been signed
and sealed, had failed to be delivered by James
Madison—Jefferson’s secretary of state—before Jefferson had taken his oath of office. As
far as Marbury, Adams, and the Federalists
were concerned, Marbury’s position had been
legally secured. On the other hand, as far as
Madison, Jefferson, and the Anti-Federalists
were concerned, Marbury’s position—along
with numerous other hopeful justices of the
peace—had missed the deadline.
The Federalists sought a “writ of mandamus,” from the Latin meaning literally “we
command.” Under the Judiciary Act of 1789,
this writ was an order that could have forced the
Anti-Federalists to recognize Marbury’s commission via the Supreme Court. Then entered
Chief Justice John Marshall. Here was a man
who had fought alongside Washington at Valley Forge, was appointed as one of the “XYZ”
commissioners sent to deal with the French in
1798, and had served briefly as John Adam’s
secretary of state. Furthermore, Marshall was
the justice who read Jefferson his oath of office.
William H. Rehnquist, The Supreme Court 24
(2001). This swearing-in would prove to be a
historical scene not unlike when Pope Leo III
crowned Charlemagne, where it took a minister
to make a king. In spite of all of Marshall’s
achievements, it would be his opinion in Mar-
bury v. Madison that would unexpectedly shape
the future of the United States and ultimately
be his biggest contribution to American sovereignty.
Marbury’s only hope for becoming justice
of the peace would be for the Supreme Court
to uphold this writ. Marshall declared, “It is
therefore decidedly the opinion of the court,
that when a commission has been signed by the
president, the appointment is made; and that
the commission is complete when the seal of
the United States has been affixed to it by the
secretary of state.” Erwin Chemerinsky, Constitutional Law 3 (2013). In other words, the
Court saw the delivery as irrelevant because the
signature of the president was the final step of
the commission.
Rather than fight against
the grain, Marshall simply permitted the presidential cabinet to have
what they wanted.
If Marshall’s opinion had ended there, the
Federalists would have had a victory. However, Marshall then commented on the nature of
the Act itself. “The authority, therefore, given
to the supreme court, by the act establishing
the judicial courts of the United States, to issue
writs of mandamus to public officers, appears
not to be warranted by the constitution.” Id. at
6. In other words, Marshall believed that the
Constitution restricted the Supreme Court to
certain perimeters. When Congress passed the
Judicial Act, they had extended those perimeters
beyond the implicit boarders of the Constitution. That is to say, if Congress were permitted to create powers that broadened the scope
of any given branch of government, it would
reduce the Constitution—the supreme law of
the land as delegated in Article VI—to a mere
guideline. Here, Marshall foresaw a slippery
slope, which is why the Supreme Court ruled
that the Judiciary Act was unconstitutional. In
short, the Court rejected Congress’ granting
of extended power. It was a wise ruling that
stalled Congress from treating the Constitution like a Russian doll that would eventually
be engulfed by larger dolls. In sum, the Court
declared that although Adam’s signature was
sufficient for Marbury to become a justice, and
although the Judiciary Act did give the Court
the power to literally push this envelope, Marshall’s opinion was that Congress had given the
Court too much power. Without the writ, the
Court had no jurisdiction to hear the case. In
the end, Marbury never got the job.
Those are the facts of Marbury v. Madison,
but the fun begins upon speculation. Imagine
Jefferson’s state of mind when this case was
going to the Court. On the one hand, should
the Supreme Court have ruled that the writ
should be denied, Jefferson would have obviously won. On the other hand, should the Court
have ruled that the writ should be upheld, as
the executive with no precedents having been
set, Jefferson probably would have just ignored
the Court’s ruling. This is a situation known
as “damning the dilemma.” Either way, Jefferson and the anti-Federalists had no chance of
failure. However, I am sure that Jefferson was
not expecting what Marshall actually did. Marshall did not simply say that Jefferson won, but
that the Act gave the Supreme Court too much
power. The irony is that by denying this power,
the Court found itself as the most powerful of
the Three Branches. Yes, the Federalists “won”
when the Court declared that it had no jurisdiction to hear the case, but Jefferson must have
realized that he had only won because the Supreme Court permitted Jefferson’s victory.
Perhaps Marshall was just making the decision
that he deemed to be the wisest. Nevertheless,
he found himself in a position where if he had
accepted more power, it would have ultimately
reduced his power the moment when Congress
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1L is the
Loneliest
Number
by Allie Deangelis
I’ve been thinking about what I want to do when
I graduate. Really evaluating the decision to practice, to become a courtroom attorney. I’ve got it
spun like this: when you ask someone to picture a
lawyer, about 90% of the population will describe
someone in a suit standing up in a courtroom. And
I think just about every law student has at least once
imagined himself or herself in a suit, standing up in
court. The attorney archetype seems to be one who
stands in court in front of a judge and beside an
opponent in order to mete out a resolution to a conflict. The standing, the arguing, the presentation—
it’s about advocacy. You are there to do someone
else’s bidding. We don’t stand for ourselves.
Which brings me to another point I’ve been
thinking about lately: going to law school is an incredibly alienating task. Think about your life as
a student for a moment; let’s begin as a 1L. The
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Commentary
strangest phenomenon is the Socratic method. You
are singled out from about 100 other people for no
other reason but to reinforce the fact that potentially, one day, you may have to stand up in court
and speak out loud yourself. (If you’re in the ‘it
gets students to do their reading’ camp, I’m sorry
to inform you that you’re wrong. Do you think a
system that evaluates competency entirely on one
grade generated from the sole examination offered
in that course reflects the desire to determine how a
student is keeping a particular pace in learning that
material?) When you study, you read. When you
read, you read by yourself. You sit in the library by
yourself. And since I see others doing it so often, I
can say you take all the breaks in between by yourself. You take the bar by yourself. And then when
you pass, you hang the iconic shingle by yourself.
Compared to the end game, this advocacy business,
it all seems a little ironic. In order to represent others you must first completely alienate yourself from
them.
What can we distill from all this? I’m not sure.
I think the best way to fight the loneliness is to
turn the machine in the other direction. In the late
1960s, Rutgers Law School did a 180. The dean
invited Arthur Kinoy, lead lawyer in the southern
civil rights movement, to join the faculty. Following a racially charged police riot in 1967 that killed
26 people and saw 10 million dollars in destroyed
Marshall
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passed an act granting itself more power. Rather than fight against the grain
and form an opinion that would have been challenged and maybe even made
the Court to appear silly upon being ignored, Marshall simply permitted the
presidential cabinet to have what they wanted. Moreover, Marshall’s clever
maneuver permitted him to maintain respect from the Federalists, the AntiFederalists, and each of the Justices, as he was a man who had a talent for
unifying opposing ideologues. That is the beauty behind Marbury v. Madison.
Throughout the years, similar Court decisions have been made. In William
J. Clinton, President of the United States v. City of New York 524 U.S. 417
(1998), the Court declared that Congress’ Line Item Veto
Act was unconstitutional because it permitted the president to carve Congress’ budgetary bills without having to have them reviewed by Congress before signing them. Id. at 333. Although this act was made in an effort to
save money, Justice Stevens followed in the basic tradition of John Marshall,
recognizing the potential problems of permitting the president to pass certain
property, the school opened its doors as headquarters for the local civil rights movement. The student
body began to transform, attracting social activists,
women, and minorities. By their demand, the curriculum did a 180, providing for politically relevant
courses while Rutgers pioneered a clinical education system now embraced by mainstream legal
institutions across the county. Infamously dubbed
‘The People’s Electric Law School’, Rutgers was
transformed by an electrified student body that was
in turn transformed by a legal education of their
own making.
I’m not sure what became of those electric Rutgers graduates so much as I’m not sure my ‘Ban
Fracking Now’ sticker does much good brandished
from my cubicle wall. It’s a start. We can all do our
own part to move the machine. Open your eyes: this
is the sleepiest three to four years of your life and
you’ll be tempted to hit the snooze with a post-grad
gig less creative than a P.F. Changs after it’s all
over. We’ve spent hours of solitude learning what
the professors tell us to, but at the end of the day
they’re not using this stuff to do any real advocating. Demand to learn what you need in order to
represent the interests of people you actually care
about. Because that way, you won’t be using all the
lonely hours just to do something for someone else,
you’ll be doing it for yourself, too.
budgetary bills in any from he should desire. Id. at 334. In Immigration &
Naturalization Service v. Jagdish Rai Chadha 462 U.S. 919 (1983), the Immigration and Nationality Act authorized one House of Congress to invalidate the
decision of the Executive Branch, pursuant to authority delegated by Congress
to the Attorney General of the United States, allowing a particular deportable
alien named Chadha to remain in the United States. Id. at 345. Here, 180 years
after Marshall delivered his opinion in Marbury, his concern had been realized
most directly because it was an example of Congress granting itself power
beyond the Constitution. So, it was Chief Justice Burger’s turn to uphold
the traditions of the Marbury trilogy. Id. at 350. Like Marbury and Clinton,
Chadha found himself at a loss because of the wise, selfless, powerful tradition that John Marshall had begun in 1803. Predictably, this act was declared
unconstitutional as well.
Marbury v. Madison was a definitive moment for the country because it
marked the beginning of the preservation of the Constitution. Without John
Marshall’s wisdom, the slippery slope that he foresaw would certainly have
become the destruction of a great country. In the words of Justice Robert H.
Jackson and his opinion of the power of the Supreme Court, “[W]e are not final
because we are infallible, but we are infallible only because we are final.”
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Annual
Suffolk Law
Ski Trip
On February 28th, fourty-eight Suffolk Law students headed north to Jay Peak resort in Northern
Vermont, close to Canada and Burlington. Featuring a year-round indoor water-park, ice arena,
championship golf course, and the best skiing and
snowboarding in the East, Jay Peak is far from your
ordinary mountain getaway. With law school being
such a high-stress environment, I encourage all Suffolk Law members to take part in the best trip Suffolk Law has to offer. The Suffolk Law Ski Trip is
a chance to unwind, make some new friends, and
crush as much powder as you’re up for.
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D I C T A
The Suffolk Law Paper
Volume XV No. 3
February 2014
Health Care, the
United States and
“Ideational Shift”
Sunday River Ski Club
By Alex Maur
Staff Writer
fessional and Career Development, a professor, or an accessible lawyer; these folks
can give your resume careful review and
suggestions. You must be able to hold
a reader’s attention for at least half of
the page through the format, style, and
content of your resume. Always bring a
hard copy to an interview and have stories for each job that is outside your bullet points. Also, writing samples will be
requested regularly, so sharpening these
pieces will be critical.
The recent debates surrounding the
government shutdown and the debt ceiling helped bring the Affordable Care Act
(ACA) or “Obamacare” back into the
spotlight in Washington and across the
country. The American population is
clearly divided on the issue of how to address the rising costs of health insurance
and medical coverage.
The United States is somewhat of an
anomaly in its approach to health care
coverage, in comparison to similarly developed countries in Europe and Canada.
Many proponents of the ACA urged that
changes were needed, due in large part to
medical bankruptcies associated with rising medical insurance costs. Opposition
to the law is fierce, however, with leftwing Democrats believing that the ACA
ultimately fell short of their goals of universal health coverage, and with many
Republicans arguing that the new law is
unconstitutional, ineffective, and costly.
In Canada there is near universal
health care coverage, with approximately
70% of all costs paid by public resources
from the provinces and the federal government. This includes most of what are
considered fundamental health care services, such as all doctor visits, surgeries,
and basic care. While most Canadians
view this system as a source of pride, it
is still not without its problems – wait
times and the quality of services are often debated, especially when individuals
are forced to wait months for routine surgeries. Despite these critiques, the idea of
going bankrupt because of a trip to the
emergency room remains a very foreign
Career | Page 2
Healthcare | Page 4
Suffolk Law’s Ski & Snowboard Club hosted a weekend trip to Sunday River last month through the BSSC. Pavan Nagavelli, 3L
and ski club VP, and Adam Harki, 3L and club President, (far left) report that the skiing was great, the lodging at Sunday River’s
slopeside hotel was luxurious, and Saturday night at Shipyard Brewery (right at the bottom of the access road) was a blast. For more
photos of the trip you’ll need to friend Pavan on Facebook.
Careers: Now for the Hard Part . . . Finding a Job
By Andrew Di Iorio
News Writer
Navigating the waters of career planning is a tough task for any law student,
no matter the caliber. The majority of
freshly-minted first years, no doubt, do
not know how they will fully enjoy the
legal profession after graduation. Even
in the first weeks of class, professors are
invoking the pitfalls of lacking writing
skills come interview time or your Contracts professor, eh hem Professor Wittenberg, may give some early pointers
INSIDE
for the bar exam. I hope this article will
provide some hints on how to find that
first legal career opportunity. No matter
your self-assured attitude and thoughts
of professional grandeur, a fruitful job
hunting process will always require solid
and continuous effort in the classroom.
With that said, students will do
themselves a favor by dusting off that
old law school application resume, which
is probably seven or eight months old by
now. The eyes of a legal practitioner will
be different for resumes than previous
readers. Find time with the Office of Pro-
Bar Prep Options, Page 5.
MPRE, Page 8.
Dear Readers, Page 3.
3:03 Certification, Page 4.
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D I C T A
Dicta’s Tips for Succeeding
in Today’s Legal Market
Career | cont’d from Page 1
eral counsel for a major satellite company relayed a memorable anecdote at
Always be an informed consumer as a presentation this past September. R.
it relates to what options are available to Stanton Dodge, who studied Accounting
you for non-classroom settings. There are in college, talked about his first interample businesses, firms, non-profits, and view experience. After being asked why
government offices that can provide some he wanted to work in the Accounting inguidance on what is possible as it relates dustry he remembered saying to himself,
to your career interests. These range from “I don’t, I hate this stuff.” He managed
international studies and local intern- a response but his lack of enthusiasm
ships, to public interwas telling. He swore
est opportunities to
that he would never
big and small firms.
feel
dispassionate
Fourth-year
evening about a job interview
It is a blessing to be
in Boston because of
student Kelly Bogue again and sought out
the high concentranoted
that
career- a position that would
tion of legal forums
building resources can drive him everyday.
within a very small
Find ways to put
be right in front of you. yourself in a position
radius. My mindset has always been
During her three years to get credentials for
to think outside the
at Suffolk, she has a dream job down the
box, when possidon’t need
observed that “many road, youright away.
ble. Is there a small
to find it
of our classmates are
business that could
That strange and
benefit from a legal
currently working in often awkward conperspective? What
interesting jobs and cept of networking
about that startup
is daunting for many
internships, or bring of us, especially new
company you heard
about at a party?
with them prior careers law students. A 2012
Never dismiss any
or work experience… graduate noted how
opportunity
that
role it
and likely will be honest important a profesmay come across
plays in your
about the pros and cons sional life. “Devote
your desk.
Fourth
year
of their job, industry, or time to building a
evening
student
solid network – a
employer.”
Kelly Bogue noted
major component to
that career-building
career building” recresources can be right in front of you. ommends Nina Dow, an attorney at a
During her three years at Suffolk, she has downtown firm, adding, “A mentor once
observed that “many of our classmates said if by the time you graduate you can
are currently working in interesting jobs name five professionals who would recand internships, or bring with them prior ommend you, you’ve networked well so
careers or work experience…and likely far.” Be creative here as well. Staff offices
will be honest about the pros and cons of throughout the school are filled with attheir job, industry, or employer.”
torneys who all went through this jourDuring those first few interviews you ney and have helpful stories to guide you.
may face seemingly intimidating employA few programs are worth mentioners. Usually, these interviewers are new ing, briefly. These have proven to be great
associates and recent graduates.They avenues to explore the practical side of
have been asked by their firms to fill sum- the law and include: the Marshall-Brenmer associate spots. Even though some nan Constitutional Literacy Project; Sufmight be sympathetic towards a young folk’s clinical programs, internships, or
student, they are serious about finding study abroad; researching for a professor;
the best for their firms. The most popular and working for the research librarians.
[interview] question was ‘why I went to There are many more opportunities that
law school and what my career goals are’” have been omitted here. Regardless of
said Bogue, who went through the On the experiences you inevitably choose to
Campu Interview process (“OCI”) prior build your legal credentials, remember to
to the summer of her last year of school. take the time to ask a lot of questions.
A recent graduate who is now gen-
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Volume XV No. 3
February 2014
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Editor-in-Chief
Jennifer Faillace
Managing Editor
Alexandra Hassell
Art Director
Yuen Yi Chung
News Editor
Andrew K. Di Iorio
Layout Editor
Hillary S. Cheng
Opinion Editor
Alex Zamenhof
Staff Writers & Copy Editors
allie deangelis Jeff Gangi Shannon O’Connor
Lucas Oliver Alex Maur
Board of Publishers
Jennifer Faillace
Alexandra Hassell
Melanie Klibanoff
Casandra Medeiros
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The opinions and views expressed in Dicta are not necessarily those of the Dicta
staff and are not the opinions of Suffolk University Law School or the student body.
Suffolk Law School students control and conduct all facets of this paper. Dicta does not
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Dicta encourages students, alumni, faculty, and administrators to submit letters to
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Dear Readers,
Contrary to popular belief, Dicta (The Suffolk Law Newspaper), has not been disbanded, disbarred, or dismembered. Rather, being a student-run operation, we decided to take a brief hiatus during finals. Fear not, we have returned in full force ready to take Spring semester down into the history
books. What does that mean exactly? You'll just have to stay tuned to find out!
Like what you see? Hate what you see? Using this paper to line your parakeet cage? Pretty bird!
We're always craving feedback, so don't forget to drop us a line at thesuffolklawpaper@gmail.com
This just in—Dicta has gone digital! Look for our announcement in the next campus announcement email courtesy of Lou Brum.
Stay thirsty, my friends,
Dicta 2014
Congratulations to the McLaughlin 2013 winners!
McLaughlin winners: From left to right, Moot Court Honor Board President Sammy Nabulsi, Runner-up Susan Campers, Champion
John Scannell, and Moot Court Chief Competition Director Kate Mathison.
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Comparing Bar Prep Options
By Samantha Kemp
Staff Writer
I attended Vendor Week last semester
to speak to the Bar prep vendors in order
to compare and contrast the programs.
After spending a half hour with each of
the vendors, here is what I found for Barbri, Themis, and Kaplan.
For Barbri: the earlier you sign up,
the better the price, which also depends
on jurisdiction. They also offer tuition assistance based on which is a grant instead
of a loan so you don’t have to pay it back.
As for classes, their offerings differ by location, though they have the most comprehensive bar prep both by jurisdiction
and location. Based on location, you can
attend classroom-taught courses with
real, live professors or online classes with
pre-recorded streaming video. When professors are not available to come to your
location for specific topics, you may end
up watching a pre-recorded video of a recent lecture given in another state. And
you may be eligible to mix-up your prep
with some days learning online and other
days attending the live-classroom courses. The current price to take the Massachusetts course is $3800. Note: They have
a tuition assistance program.
Need Help? Unfortunately, if you
have a question during a video or online
class, you can’t ask the professor. You will
have to ask a question through email, or
in their online portal. You can call Barbri’s main office with a question, but it
seems as if you must go through the other
two options first. The turn-around time
for answers is either same day/next day.
Online Access & Server Reliability. If
you are taking an online class, it is important to note that the servers were only
down for two hours during the 2013 summer course.
Teaching / Learning Style. Here are
a few takeaways from their teaching
process: Barbri has the “AMP program”
that adapts to your mastery of the material. Their AMP program won’t keep
giving you the same questions you have
mastered. (This means that you have
previously answered the question correct twice.) Essays are unlimited, and the
turn-around for critique is usually within
one week.
Course Length, Passage Rate, and Jurisdictions. The course in Massachusetts
is six weeks long, and at the end they rent
out a huge space and give a simulated bar
exam. The pass rates for Barbri are close
to the state passage rate. They also offer
multistate deals that vary by jurisdic-
Photograph by Yuen Yi Chung
tion. For example, for MA plus NY it’s
only $125 extra; MA & RI $250 extra;
NJ & NY $75 extra. The rep for Barbri
stated that they “set the curve” for bar
review classes. When choosing a bar prep
course, 88 percent of law students choose
Barbri.
Themis, on the other hand: it costs
$1,595 dollars, but they have multiple
discounts available based on club affiliations, students going into public interest law, early payment incentives and
other offers. If you are a member of the
American Bar Association Law student
division, Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity
International, National Black Law Students Association, or a Military spouse
JD network, you will receive $100 dollars
off your tuition. If you have a job lined
up in public service, they will take $500
dollars off your tuition. Unfortunately,
they only offer online pre-recorded lectures, so you can’t ask questions during
the lectures. However, their server did
not have any outages or scheduled maintenance so they are always online. If you
decide to go with Themis, you will also get
a supervising attorney, who will check in
on you and help you throughout the program. Also, the state director will call you
at three different scheduled times over
the program to check on your progress.
If you cannot get in touch with your su-
pervising attorney (which is rare), there’s
a portal to ask substantive questions. The
learning style puts an emphasis on the
questions you get wrong. For the questions you get right, they make the subject
matters more challenging. As for essays,
you will do one essay per week, but you
have the option to do more if you choose.
The attorney advisor grades this for you,
but if you would rather do it yourself,
they also offer self grading for essays and
model answers. As for questions, they are
licensed with the Multistate Bar Examiners, so they use old questions, and have
the National Conference of Bar Examiners write new questions. The course is 8
weeks long and is self-directed. You can
go at your own speed with a checklist of
tasks, or you can do the standard course
which tracks your work for you. If you
take some time off, the standard schedule will adjust so that you complete the
course on time. Themis boasts the highest
published passing rate, at 91 percent in
Massachusetts. This is based on Themis
first time takers who completed 75 percent or more of their course assignments
and on state bar exam first time takers.
They also have multistate deals. To take
an additional state’s class in addition
to your own will cost $200. Although
Themis is only online, it has a more personal touch than Barbri or Kaplan. They
seem genuinely concerned about their
students passing the bar since they check
on you and are available if you need them.
As for Kaplan: if you signed up before November 12, 2013 the cost was
$2,765 for live a course in Massachusetts
and if you plan on taking the bar exam
in more than one state, it is an additional
$150 for that state’s class. They offer live,
in-class and online programs. Kaplan bar
review courses are alway live if select the
“classroom” option - some classrooms,
however, have the professor streamed-in
via live video, with a proctor in the class,
so if you have a question during the lecture, you can ask it at the break. To note,
the server was down for 1 hour and 40
minutes during last summer’s program.
If you have a question outside of class,
you can call and speak to an attorney and
usually get a callback that day as their
call centers are open late. The learning
style is adaptive. This means that whenever you get a question right or wrong,
the curriculum will adapt to what you
know and do not know to avoid repetitive
questions in areas you are already confident in. Essays offered are unlimited, and
it takes 3–5 business days for a response.
The class takes an estimated 8 weeks,
and begins with an online MBE review.
Questions are written by people who have
studied the previous year’s Bar questions
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February 2014| 5
Health Care,
the United
States, and the
“Ideational
Shift”
and study the trends of the MBE. Kaplan appears a little more personalized
than Barbri, and it seems as if asking
questions and getting answers would not
be too difficult. Like Barbri, they also offer tuition assistance.
Local to Suffolk: Professor Janda offers a Saturday course throughout the
semester as a weekend bar prep. This is
something you sign up for on Campus
Cruiser when enrolling in your semester’s
classes. Going to class is helpful, but you
can also treat it like an online class. Each
week you will get multiple choice questions and slides to review. You can then
watch the lecture online. Suffolk has a license with the MBE, so Professor Janda
uses practice questions taken from past
Massachusetts Bar exams. Professor Janda really knows his stuff when it comes
to Bar prep, and his course is definitely
something to look into during your last
semester of law school.
Healthcare | con’td from Page 1
Trouble Choosing?
Some vendors offer free trials of their
prep programs, so be sure to ask.
Photograph by Yuen Yi Chung
Talking Back: Bar Prep Reps Respond
In response to our article “Comparing Bar Prep Options,” we gave bar
prep companies the chance to talk
back. Here’s what they said.
Content collected & edited by Jennifer
Faillace, 4LE.
THEMIS BAR REVIEW
Jamie Molbreak, Regional Director
We offer early payment incentives
([as of October 2013 there was] a special for $350 off of the cost of a course)
in addition to club affiliation discounts
and reimbursement of competitor deposits (up to $250). All of these discounts can be combined, but the cost of
the course cannot fall below $1095 (this
is also our public interest scholarship
rate).
Our Attorney Advisers are licensed
in the exam jurisdiction and grade all
of the students’ essays from start to
finish. They will grade unlimited essays
and the turnaround time is 48 business
hours. Students get the continuity of
having one person look at their essays
throughout the course, so the Attorney
Adviser is well-acquainted with a particular student’s strengths and weaknesses and can tailor his/her comments
accordingly. Students are assigned to
complete both graded and practice essays throughout the course. We track
the students’ progress and if someone is
falling behind with the course calendar,
he/she will definitely be contacted. You
are correct that we reach out to every
student multiple times throughout the
course.
Students can ask questions of our
staff attorneys through the learning
portal at any time; in addition, they can
reach out to the State Director or the Attorney Adviser anytime.
We have licensed our MBE questions
from the NCBE and supplement those
with questions that we draft ourselves-we don’t have the NCBE write new ones
for us.
The course is 8-10 weeks depending
on the jurisdiction(s) the student is taking. Combination courses (two jurisdictions) are $150 more, not $200 more.
Our learning portal tracks a student’s
progress no matter if they are working in
Directed Study (our assigned calendar of
tasks) or Flex Study mode.
Finally, Themis rents out a classroom
to administer a live MBE so that students
can experience what it will be like on test
day[;] to worry about logistics, trying to
concentrate in a room full of people, etc.
These are very well attended and in fact,
students are welcome to attend no matter where they are studying or for what
jurisdiction. Themis students can prepare
for their bar exams from anywhere in the
world!
KAPLAN
Ari R. Gottlieb, Esq., Regional Director,
New England
Kaplan offers live ( in-class) and
online programs. Kaplan bar review
courses are “always live” if you select the
classroom option. If you attend a class
other than the one with a live professor
in it, Kaplan streams that professor’s lecture to your classroom site in real time.
A proctor is in the class and is in touch
with the professor so you can ask questions during the breaks.
Kaplan’s server downtime last summer was for scheduled maintenance, and
the site was otherwise available to students 99.92% of the summer.
When students have questions outside of class, they can email their staff
attorneys via the online syllabus for an
answer. You can also, at times, speak to
those attorneys for particularly difficult
questions.
The adaptive learning style lets you
focus on your weak areas.
Practice essays, which you can submit an unlimited number of, are graded
and returned within 3-5 days.
Kaplan also offers tuition assistance.
BARBRI
No comments were received.
concept.
Regardless of your take on the health
care issue in the United States, there are
many different theories on how and why
these political shifts concerning health
care occur. One political scientist, Joseph Wong, studied health care reform
in Taiwan and Korea in his book Healthy
Democracies. In his study, he found that
changes in health care policy were more
easily accomplished in these newly democratized (and previously authoritarian) states, where health reform had already begun, and helped establish what
he calls an “ideational shift in values”
across the country. Wong explains that
the historical lack of ‘the left’ in politics
allowed health care to be designated as a
democratic right by all political parties.
While this is only part of the answer
to the health care question, it is nonetheless helpful in studying the issue and understanding why the United States’ policy differs from that of other countries.
In long-standing democracies like the
United States, where democratic values
are entrenched, so are the views held by
political parties, interest groups and big
business. This can inevitably make any
kind of large-scale political change difficult to achieve, when most actors are
looking to preserve the status quo and
promote their own interests.
This is clear when you look at a
number of other social issues that have
recently divided the country. Same-sex
marriage, however, seems to be just one
example of how this kind of ‘ideational
shift’ described by Wong can still occur,
even in an entrenched democracy like the
United States. With the Supreme Court’s
recent DOMA decision and an overall
push towards legalization of gay marriage, it appears as though this issue is
becoming less and less divisive. So, while
it might feel like the answer to health care
reform remains unanswered, it’s hard to
tell when an “ideational shift” could occur that could change the nature of the
debate for good.
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c a s i n o
a d d
i
c
t
s
Photograph by Yuen Yi Chung, Art Director.
By Yuen Yi Chung
Art Director
It all started when I saw the beautifully angled glass towers overlooking the
Thames River at sunset. Situated on an
Indian Reservation, the Mohegan Sun
Resort and Casino brings Native American legends to life. Tribal lore and nature’s elements, such as earth, wind, fire
and water, are seamlessly transformed
into modern environments throughout
the entertainment complex. The facility also includes a shopping mall, several
restaurants, and a large concert arena. I
enjoy coming here with friends and look
forward to each visit even though I am
not a big gambler.
As we dilly-dallied on our way to one
of the restaurants, I could not help but
notice all of the miserable elderly people
It felt strange to know that under the that casinos often advertise the relaxed
sleeping in the bus waiting area. Some of same roof, we have some serious gambling and luxurious life, yet frequent casinothem slept on the floor, othgoers are typically anything but
ers curled up on the cold,
glamorous.
plastic benches. Mr. Chen, a
Another frequent commutretired middle school teacher, Mr. Mei, shared his reasons
The irony lies in the fact that
er, showed me his stack of
for making the two-hour trip
food and slot credit vouchthree times a day. “My son is
casinos often advertise the
ers. “You can take the Fat
having twins and we need the
relaxed and luxurious life,
Choy (translation: “Struck it
extra money. With my back inyet frequent casino-goers are
Rich”) bus for free from Bosjury and poor English, this is
ton to the casino as a memthe only thing I can do to make
typically anything but glamorous.
ber. The casino gives you $15
money.” Some of Mr. Mei’s
for food and $20 for slot play
friends proudly admit to ridwhen you get off the bus.
ing buses to casinos in Atlantic
Then you can just wait here
City and Pennsylvania as well.
for the next bus back to Boston with your addicts and some who are simply addict- “When you don’t gamble, you have nothvouchers” said Chen. According to Chen, ed casino-commuters who travel back ing to lose,” they laughed.
each bus trip can net around $25 just in and forth to the casino without ever actufree vouchers.
ally gambling. The irony lies in the fact
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February 2014| 7
SBA Budget
2013-2014
Artwork by Yuen Yi Chung, Art Director.
SBA ACCOUNTS
BUDGET AMOUNT
Sections
1A
1B
1C
1D
1L Cup
2L at Large
3L at Large
4A
4L/7L at Large
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
500.00
500.00
500.00
500.00
3,000.00
3,000.00
3,000.00
500.00
1,000.00
Bar Associations Liaisons (ABA, BBA, FBA, MBA)
OPCD Liaison
Admissions Liaison
Rappaport Liaison
Honor Boards Liaison
$
2,000.00
Diversity and Inclusion Committee
Graduation Committee
Academic Affairs Committee
Alumni Affairs Committee
Appropriations Committee
External Affairs Committee
Student Affairs Social Committee
Student Affairs Concerns Committee
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
2,000.00
5,000.00
2,000.00
4,000.00
500.00
3,500.00
67,000.00
200.00
$
Technology
$
Council of Presidents
$
Operations
$
Orientation
$
Reserve
$
Student Competition Travel Fund
$
Supplemental Fund
$
Sustainability Initiatives
SBA ADMINISTRATION ACCOUNTS TOTAL $
Student Organizations
$
Alternative Dispute Resolution
$
American Constitution Society
$
Asian Pacific American Law Students Association
Bearing Witness: A Journal on Law and Social Responsibility $
$
Black Law Students Association
$
Business Law Association
$
Child and Family Law Student Association
$
Christian Fellowship
$
Cultural Heritage Law Association
400.00
400.00
5,000.00
2,000.00
10,000.00
3,000.00
38,547.89
500.00
158,547.89
Liaisons
Committees
General
733.50
1,035.00
2,395.00
3,080.00
4,500.00
2,000.00
1,000.00
1,200.00
1,810.00
$
Dicta Board of Publishers
$
Federalist Society
$
Health and Biomedical Law Society
Hellenic Law Society
$
Human Rights Law Society
$
Human Trafficking Students Organization
Humanitarian Law and American Red Cross Society
$
Immigration Law Association
$
Intellectual Property Law Student Association
$
International Law Society
$
Irish American Law Society
$
Jewish Law Students Association
$
Joint Degree Law Student Association
$
Latin American Law Students Association
$
Lebanese American Law Students' Organization
$
Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys
$
National Italian American Bar Association
National Lawyer's Guild
$
Native American Law Students Association
$
New England First Amendment Coalition
$
Phi Alpha Delta
Phi Delta Phi
$
Queer Law Alliance
$
South Asian Law Students Association
$
Sports and Entertainment Law Association
$
Suffolk Law Armed Services and Law Enforcement Association
$
Suffolk Law Futball Club
$
Suffolk Law Ice Hockey Club
$
Suffolk Law Intramural Basketball Association
$
Suffolk Law Muslim Students Association
$
Suffolk Law Racquet Club
$
Suffolk Law Rugby Football Club
$
Suffolk Law Ski Club
$
Suffolk Law Softball
$
Suffolk Public Interest Law Group
$
Suffolk Real Estate Law Association
$
Student Animal Legal Defense Fund
Suffolk Gaming Law Association
$
Suffolk University Law Golf Club
$
Suffolk Women of Color Law Students Association
Women's Law Association
$
STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS TOTAL $
3,750.00
2,345.00
1,520.00
859.35
1,680.00
3,000.00
88,782.50
SBA TOTAL $
247,330.39
1,450.00
1,335.00
830.00
2,633.40
2,310.00
1,310.00
2,750.00
900.00
3,474.00
990.00
1,300.00
495.00
3,960.00
750.00
1,100.00
2,935.00
2,260.00
510.00
1,026.00
2,800.00
3,151.25
2,345.00
2,000.00
2,405.00
2,882.00
3,025.00
4,948.00
800.00
1,200.00
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SBA’s Opening Season
FY 2014 Budget Approval and Club Budget Appeals
By Jennifer Faillace
Editor-In-Chief
Sunday, September 29, was a rough
evening for many members of the SBA.
The evening started well with pizza and
soda, introductions by various SBA committee directors and assistant directors,
and fun facts about their favorite karaoke songs.
However, when the meeting turned
toward budget appeals, the fun stopped.
The Appropriations committee was not
prepared for the amount of clubs appealing their SBA-issued budgets to the
Board of Governors.
Given the voting process that requires three votes to get to the merits of
the appeal, the review of club appeals
took four hours.
For all the potential SBA presidential
candidates out there and Appropriations’
committee hopefuls, please find a way
to streamline this process and convey
your reasoning for determining approved
budget amounts in a transparent and
consistent manner.
Clubs need to have realistic expectations about their budget requests and be
able to provide a track record of responsible spending and influential programming that bolsters their budget requests.
With those watermarks met, we may be
able to prevent frivolous and lengthy appeals in the future.
SBA President Sammy Nabulsi is expected to release a statement to the clubs
who appealed to the SBA’s Board of Governors (“BOG”) for additional funds that
exceeded the amount recommended by
the Appropriations Committee.
Student organizations requests totaled over $200,000 this year; the SBA
had about $90,000 to allocate to all clubs.
Towards the end of the night, the
steadily declining number of exhausted
representatives present made it likely
that an adequate quorum was not present to vote on the appeals and that
proxy votes were not being clearly kept.
3:03 Certification/Clinics
By Alexandra Hassell
Managing Editor
Are you interested in obtaining experience as an attorney while you’re still in
school? Look no further than one of Suffolk Law’s ten in-house clinics. Areas of
law include Education Advocacy, Family
Advocacy, Health Law, Housing, Immigration, Indian Law and Indigenous Peoples, Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship, Juvenile Defenders, Defenders,
Prosecutors, and Landlord-Tenant for
the evening program. The clinical program at Suffolk is currently ranked 17th
in the country by U.S. News and World
Report.
Applications are available in February and can be submitted in person for
students in their last two years of law
school. Additionally, applicants must be
in good academic standing and have completed and received a satisfactory grade
in Evidence. Acceptance is based on a lottery system, but preference may be given
to those in their last year of school or
those who are fluent in foreign languages
or have completed courses relevant to the
clinic for which they have applied. Once
a student has been accepted into a clinic,
he or she will submit an application for
certification under Rule 3:03 of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. This
rule allows law students to represent indigent clients or the Commonwealth under
a supervising attorney without receiving
compensation for said services.
Student Attorneys will be responsible for client intake, counseling, correspondence, pleadings, and appearances
on behalf of their clients. While the supervising attorney is there to advise, the
students do all the heavy lifting.
Clinics provide practical experience
and allow students to apply what they
have learned in the classroom to the
cases they receive. Day students receive
eight credits for full year clinics while the
evening clinic is six credits for the year.
Completion of a clinic satisfies the skills
requirement that is necessary for graduation as well. Participating in a clinic is
a rewarding experience and a great way
to assist those in need while honing your
own skills.
The info session is Thu., Feb. 20,
2-4pm in the Function Room. More info:
http://www.suffolk.edu/law/6728.php.
Notes from the Back Row: The MPRE
By Andrew Power, 3LE (Class of 2012)
Reprint from Dicta (Oct. 2010)
On a sunny Saturday morning last
summer, I sat down to take the MPRE,
a sixty-question multiple-choice test that
probed my understanding of the legal
profession’s core values.
No, MPRE does not stand for Money,
Power, Real Estate. Nor is it an acronym for Many Practitioners Retire Early.
Rather, MPRE is short for Multistate
Professional Responsibility Examination. It’s a legal ethics test.
As I was blacking in the ovals under
the proctor’s watchful eye, an Elvis Costello song kept popping into my head.
The song was “(What’s So Funny ‘Bout)
Peace, Love, and Understanding?” Except in my head it was called “(What’s So
Funny ‘Bout) Professional Responsibility?”
Because, let’s face it: something
about the very notion of legal ethics
makes people laugh.
Last spring, when I was taking Suffolk’s mandatory Professional Responsibility course, I’d tell people what I was
studying and they’d invariably chuckle.
The responses would be along these lines:
“Are you kidding me? Ethics for lawyers?
Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha!”
Clearly there’s a perception problem
here. Lawyers for the most part are not
demonstrably more dishonest than the
average American (how’s that for a ringing endorsement?). And yet the stereotype of the ethically challenged attorney
persists. (E.g.: How can you tell it’s really cold outside? When you see a lawyer
with his hands in his own pockets.)
As a result, the legal profession has
gone out of its way to emphasize ethical behavior. For example, most states,
including Massachusetts, require every
would-be lawyer to pass the MPRE before taking the bar exam. It’s given three
times a year, and it ain’t easy.
Some people go in cold, relying on
their innate sense of right and wrong—
their ethical compass, if you will—to
guide them through the maze. I needed
more, so I took an MPRE prep class
taught by a lawyer who made off-color
jokes about “mandatory withdrawal.”
I found the course to be helpful, particularly the practice questions. (And yes,
to paraphrase the Beatles, I passed the
audition.) So here, as a public service to
my fellow wannabe attorneys, is a typical
MPRE practice question I created just
for you.
Fonda Cash, a law school student at
Watsamatta U., gets a coveted summer associateship at the big-money law firm of
Shiftrom Shinola (motto: “If you don’t
know Shiftrom Shinola, you should”). Her
supervisor, attorney Rich Duphus, thinks
Fonda shows potential and soon has her negotiating settlements. After one particularly
fruitful negotiation, Fonda collects a substantial check and brings it back to attorney
Duphus. He congratulates Fonda and instructs her to deposit the check into a special
fund labeled “OPP He then proposes, as a
.”
reward for her good work, that she join him
for what he terms an “IOLTA weekend” in
Vegas. She’s not certain this behavior is ethical, but Duphus assures her it’s OK, saying, “Trust me. I’m a big-money attorney.
I know the law.”
Fonda asks you what she should
do. What advice would you give her?
A. Play along in expectation of a fulltime offer from the firm.
B. Use the incidents as leverage to secure a full-time offer from the firm.
C. If no offer is forthcoming, report the
incidents to the appropriate authorities.
D. None of the above.
Wasn’t that fun? By the way, the
MPRE is apparently emphasizing judicial ethics a bit more these days, so here’s
another one on the house. Good luck on
the exam!
Judge Gil T. Vurdick is running for
re-election to the state supreme court. Before ascending to the bench, Judge Vurdick
was a partner in the personal injury firm
of Slypton Felle (motto: “Negligence is our
specialty”) and still has many friends there.
A member of the firm, Phil McCoffers, is
chairing Judge Vurdick’s re-election committee. One day, after wrapping up his oral
arguments before Judge Vurdick, McCoffers
stops by the judge’s chambers. He mentions
that his client in the case is a strong supporter of the judge’s candidacy and would like
to make a large contribution in exchange for
“a little love” on the matter before the court.
Judge Vurdick simply smiles and holds up
six fingers. Then they head over to the local
men’s club to drink and talk football before
going home.
Is the judge subject to discipline?
B. Yes. For running for re-election instead of giving someone else a turn.
C. No. The judge didn’t really do anything mean.
D. Yes. For belonging to a men’s club.
E. It depends…
MARCH 2014 MPRE
The next MPRE is March 29, 2014. The
Later Registration Deadline is February
20th. Tne next test date is August 9, 2014.
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Courthouse Dog Visit Sparks
New Clubs
Interest in Juvenile Criminal Justice Approved
By Jennifer Faillace
Editor-in-Chief
BOSTON, Mass. -- Suffolk Law
School received a visit from a courthouse
facility dog last semester. On the Monday before finals, Wena, a black lab, and
her handler Laurie Myers, visited with
students for a study break sponsored by
Dicta and the Suffolk Animal Legal Defense Fund.
The impact that a courthouse facility
dog can have on the legal process is substantial. “Using a facility dog during a
forensic interview has reduced the time it
takes by as much as forty-five minutes”
explained Myers. Wena assists abused
children while they are working with the
district attorney’s office. She also comforts teens in community support groups
and has cheered up victims at local hospitals.
Laurie Myers demonstrated Wena’s
discipline and talked about the training
required to become certified by Canine
Companions for Independence (CCI), the
organization that trained and donated
Wena. CCI assistance dogs undergo
training for six to nine months before
they meet their potential handler. Myers and Wena worked and lived with each
other for two weeks before both of them
graduated from CCI’s program as a certified Facility Dog Team.
During their visit to Suffolk, Wena
took a break from her role as courthouse
facility dog to enjoy lots of attention
from students. As a service-trained dog,
she showed us a few of her commands.
This included carrying items, pushing chairs, and
“visiting” (jumping onto the lap of
people who are in
wheelchairs or in
hospital beds).
Myers told us
that “courthouse”
or “comfort” dogs
have been wellaccepted by the
legal community
for several years.
In November of
2011, the National District Attorneys Association
passed a resolution supporting
their use “to aid in
the investigation
of crimes involving young or vulnerable victims.”
The resolution included Best Practices
guidelines
to assist district
attorneys offices
and courthouses around the country in
establishing their own courthouse facility
dog programs.
Wena was donated to Laurie Myers
and the non-profit Community VOICES
of Chelmsford to offer assistance and
support to victims of crime within the
criminal justice system and community.
By Jennifer Faillace
Editor-in-Chief
Two new clubs were authorized last
month: The Law Innovation and Technology Student Association (LITSA)
and a Suffolk University Chapter of the
Association of Latino Professionals in
Finance and Accounting (ALPFA) Law.
Their mission statements are below.
We are looking forward to some great
events from both clubs this Spring.
The Law Innovation and Technology
Student Association (LITSA):
LITSA will be dedicated to raising
an awareness of how technology is advancing the delivery of legal services.
Through guest speakers, demonstrations and possible hands-on application, LITSA will create an open forum
where students, faculty, staff, alumni,
and other members of the community
can not only gain an understanding
and appreciation of how technology is
transforming the legal marketplace today, but also gain a competitive edge to
meet tomorrow’s demand.
Myers is working with district attorneys
offices throughout the state that are interested in getting their own facility dog.
Another courthouse facility dog may be
coming to Massachusetts this year.
This spring, the SBA is interested in
hosting another event with Wena, and we
are looking forward to seeing her again
soon.
ALPFA Law, Suffolk University Chapter:
“To leverage the access and resources of a national organization, ALPFA,
to facilitate professional development
and networking opportunities for law
students seeking legal careers in private
and public industries and championing
diversity in the legal sector.”
Additional information from https://www.alpfa.org: ALPFA is a Latino
association for business professionals
and students with chapters nationwide.
Their aim is to enhance opportunities
for Latinos and build leadership and career skills.
The clubs were required to submit
their mission statements, constitutions,
member lists, planned activities, and
budgets to be considered for authorization. The Council of Presidents (COP)
voted on authorization, and the Board
of Governors had the opportunity to
overturn or ratify the COP vote.
For more information on the club
authorization process, please contact
Morvarid (Michelle) Bagheri, Council
of Presidents Liaison, Student Bar Association, via sulscop@gmail.com.
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Massachusetts Bar Exam Results for July 2013
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Kahalas Scholarship Winners
Pictured above is Jah-Asia Nuru, 2LD, recipient of the first Kahalas Scholarship Award.
By Melanie Klibanoff
Dicta Secretary
Thanks to the generosity of Howard
M. Kahlas and his wife, Judith, the Kahalas Term Scholarship Fund totaling
$100,000 provides scholarship grants of
$10,000 for up to two students per year.
Applicants must show demonstrated
service to their communities, demonstrated leadership and other extracurricular activities evincing the potential
to be strong law students. Such students
also must demonstrate financial need and
have a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher
upon graduation from a four-year accredited college or university. Preference
for the Kahalas Term Scholarship will be
given to students who are members of
historically underrepresented groups in
law school education. In addition to the
financial element, Howard Kahalas will
provide personal mentorship to scholarship winners to help with the difficult
decisions required to be successful in the
legal field.
Having earned his law degree from
Suffolk University Law School in 1972
following his graduation from Boston
University’s College of Liberal Arts in
1969, Howard M. Kahalas is a well-established Boston attorney. After several
years as a sole practitioner specializing in
criminal trial work, personal injury and
workers compensation, Howard M. Kahalas became the principal of the Law
Office of Howard M. Kahalas, P in
.C.
1981. His more than 35 years of experi-
ence as a Boston personal injury attorney include being awarded several multimillion-dollar verdicts or settlements for
his clients. Mr. Kahalas is a past member
of the Judicial Nominating Commission,
serving more than eight years under three
governors.
To apply for the Kahalas Term Scholarship applicants must submit a personal
essay of no more than 500 words and two
recommendations from college or university faculty. The first recipients of the Kahalas scholarship are Thomas Davis JD
'15 and Jah-Asia Nuru JD '15. Ms. Nuru
has plans to work for the San Francisco
Public Defender’s Office this summer. She
stated that she is “extremely thankful for
the generosity of Mr. and Mrs. Kahalas
and the Suffolk Selection Committee.
Law school is an expensive endeavor, especially for those of us who want to pursue public interest law. To be afforded
such a huge contribution to defray some
of the costs, as well as a mentorship, is
beyond helpful.” – Jah-Asia Nuru
In a time of grave and scarce availability of paying legal jobs for law students, every charitable donation or scholarship that becomes available goes a long
way. As Suffolk Law students, we are
very lucky to be a part of such a strong
and caring community. As Dean Camille
A. Nelson stated, "We're grateful to the
Kahalases for their generosity, both in
terms of scholarship funds and Attorney Kahalas' time in mentoring students
through the ups and downs of law school
and beyond.”
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Working for the Innocence Project
By Alexander Zamenhof
Opinion Editor
The New England Innocence Project (NEIP) is part of a nation-wide,
non-profit endeavor to give incarcerated
people a chance at proving their freedom.
Since DNA
evidence
and testing
has become
increasingly
more accurate and reliable, there
are literally
thousands
of convicted
prisoners who are claiming that with the
application of current DNA testing, they
can be found to have been innocent all
along.
I got involved with NEIP about a
month ago – part of my effort to get probono hours, as well as to get some criminal legal experience. Here is what I can
say about the project to date:
1. I’ve been assigned, along with a
classmate, to review a specific case.
2. We may be required to go find any
missing evidence, interview witnesses, request documentation under the Freedom
of Information Act (FOIA), etc.
3. Everything about the current case
is considered classified, and may not be
discussed outside the confines of those of
us involved.
At this point, that’s all I can say.
We’ve received our case file, and will start
going through all the evidence in the
coming weeks. We have to write a preliminary recommendation during the winter,
and then present our final findings to the
board of NEIP in the spring.
Professor Stephanie Hartung runs
the program Suffolk-side, and took the
three of us to the orientation meeting at
New England Law.
Students from all of the participating schools (BU, Harvard, New England,
Northeastern) came together and lis-
tened to an emotional talk from an exoneree who had been in prison for 19 years
as an innocent man. That’s what NEIP
is all about: getting innocent people the
hell out of prison who have been almost
forgotten.
SBA Treasurer: New Procedures for Accounting
By Svetlana Revina
SBA Treasurer
The Student Bar Association (SBA) is
implementing a change to our accounting
procedures. As of October 1st, the Suffolk University Business Office has taken
over the responsibility of issuing checks
for the SBA. Our independent accounting
system will still be managed, monitored
and controlled within the SBA and by the
SBA Treasurer. The part of the process
that is now different is the printing of the
checks and maintenance of the vendor
database.
Here is how this change will affect
the Student Organizations, Clubs, Committees, SBA Departments and other
members of the student body submitting
check requests for vendor payment or
their own reimbursement:
1) Timing of submissions and check
issuance - You must submit a check request to the SBA Treasurer by 6 p.m.
on Tuesday to get reimbursed during
the same week. The check runs are done
every Friday and you can either request
to hold the check for pick up or have the
check mailed to any specified address. If
you request to hold the check, the check
will be available at the Suffolk University
Business Office (73 Tremont Street, 5th
Floor, Boston, MA 02108) after 2 p.m.
that Friday or in the Treasury Outbox
drawer in the SBA suite on Monday of
the following week. If you intend to pick
up the check on Friday at the Business
Office, call (617) 573-8404 first to make
sure your check is ready before heading
over.
2) We have a new Check Request
Form that is available in the SBA suite
(Suite 450).
Note that the treasurer of each student organization should be responsible
for maintaining financial records, keeping
track of expenses and deposits and regularly providing the rest of the e-board
with accurate account balances for that
organization. It is highly recommended
that the treasurer fills out the financial
forms or is at least informed of all the
check requests, deposits and transfers
submitted to the SBA Treasury. At the
end of the year, the SBA will be asking
each organization for a detailed annual
report and it is in the best interest of
each student organization to keep detailed records otherwise they risk de-authorization.
Please let us know if you have any
questions and/or concerns. In addition
to being reachable by e-mail, Svetlana
Revina, SBA Treasurer will be available
during office hours on Wednesdays from
2-4 pm in the SBA Suite on the 4th Floor.
Treasurer Contact Information:
Svetlana Revina
Student Bar Association, Treasurer
Suffolk University Law School
srevina@suffolk.edu
sbatreasurer@yahoo.com
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Not Your Older
Brother’s Civil
Procedure
By Andrew DiIorio
News Edior
It seems like a decade has gone by
since I took civil procedure with Professor
Thomas Finn. However, during the 20102011 school year I was able to learn much
from the course. Many of us were extremely pleased with Professor Finn and
took some great points from his lectures.
In a conversation last fall he informed me
that my orange colored civil procedure
“E and E” is now out of date on some
issues. There have been some changes
issued to the approaches that attorneys
must take towards the requirements of
venue and removal. The Federal Courts
Jurisdiction and Venue Clarification Act
of 2011 (JVCA) was the legal instrument
for the changes. Additionally, there may
be more adjustments to come as a comment period has been initiated by the
Standing Committee on Rules of Practice
and Procedure. George Vairo commented
on the general outcome of the legislation
in his piece in the National Law Journal
titled, “Congress clarifies some removal
and venue issues; Federal Courts Jurisdiction and Venue Clarification Act revolves split over 30-day removal period
for multiple defendants.” He observed,
“The JVCA…clarifies several issues that
had divided the courts on removal…and
cleans up several issues with the general
venue statute.”
In January 2012, the process for asserting venue and removal motions officially changed. In regards to venue,
§1390, the changes set general definitions and parameters. The case law rule
for venue was codified, which mandates
that venue for removed actions will be set
by the removal statute, not the general
venue statute. Also, §1392 was replaced
by §1391(a)(1), eliminating the distinction of “local actions” where state law
was supposed to be used in federal courts.
The legislation streamlined §1391, making venue proper in a defendant’s judicial
district only when all of the defendants
reside in that district’s state.
Removal received adjustments which
were seemingly straightforward. The
JVCA preserves the requirement that all
defendants must consent to the removal
under §1446(b)(2)(A). Defendants will
also have 30 days to file a notice of removal and have the opportunity to join the
removal action if he or she didn’t do so
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Courthouse Dog
Visits Suffolk Law
Photograph courtesy of SALDF photographer Jacqueline Chen
originally. These actions are empowered
under §1446(b)(2)(B) and under §1446(b)
(2)(C), respectfully. Under §1446(c)(1), if
the plaintiff acts in bad faith to prevent
removal within the one-year time frame,
the time limit will not be honored. Additionally, the one-year clock will not be
taken into account if there was bad faith
during an amount-in-controversy found
analysis through §1446(c)(3)(B).
The proposed rules, which are currently open for public comment, will have
an impact on the practice of law for all
litigators. The scheduling and pre-trial
factors of a lawsuit are the prime focus
of these changes. Two of the most significant alterations would include a reduction of time for service of summons and
complaints (Rule 49m) and a limitation
of days for judges to issue scheduling orders after appearance and service to defendants (Rule 16(b)(2)). Another proposed amendment would require a judge
to issue scheduling orders at scheduling
conferences, which must be conducted in
person, rather than by telephone or mail.
There are several procedural hurdles that face these changes. Hearings
have already commenced throughout the
country, allowing members of the bar to
speak on the issues. The Standing Committee will close the comment period in
February and will vote on the changes. If
passed, the Judicial Conference will take
them up. The Supreme Court would be
next for approval and finally, Congress.
Raymond Ripple and Rachel Caldwell
wrote about these issues in an article ti-
tled, “How proposed amendments to the
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure could
change your practice.” They wrote for
in-house attorneys, pointing out, “This
means that you will have to be prepared
to advise internal stakeholders and business contacts more quickly…It would
become even more important for you to
have access to the stakeholders in your
company so that you can obtain any and
all key underlying documents in a case;...
develop background information regarding key facts to support claims or defenses; and engage outside counsel to handle
the case.”
It is also worth noting that Civil
Procedure will begin to be tested on the
multi-state bar exam in February 2015.
�There’s a Month for That
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Art by Yuen Yi Chung
By allie deangelis
Staff Writer
As you become inundated with paperwork for your
2013 tax filing, I’d like to share a piece Dicta intended to
publish in the November issue:
Were you aware of what you were supposed to be
aware of this past October? ‘Twas the season for breast
cancer awareness, domestic violence awareness, bullying
prevention, dwarfism, depression, and national cyber
security. The list goes on and the months go by. Once
the name recognition wears off, as it tends to do, I am
struck by the fact that this cyclical ode becomes a little
arbitrary. Why is it that we dedicate months to certain
causes or problems and not others? I’ve never heard of
National Debt month. It seems we are not committing
ourselves or our resources to moving beyond a stage of
awareness of these causes but merely declaring war on
their namesake. This approach is both dangerous and
apathetic. It triggers a sense of collective powerlessness
and legitimizes empty gestures by individuals or corporations who actually have the money and the power to
make a real impact.
Compounding this phenomenon are the corporations who exploit the world’s problems for commercial
gain. Take a look at an NFL game earlier in the season, a Yoplait yogurt lid, Gap’s RED campaign, or any
other blue, pink, or purple item you may have purchased
based on its color-coded cause classification. With little
research you will find your hard earned cash evaporated
into a thinly-veiled marketing campaign rather than the
intended charitable contribution—a contribution that
may have motivated the purchase in the first place. How
clever.
Some people will say ‘it’s a free market’, and ‘let industry alone’—consumers should have the freedom of
choice and any spending is good spending (for the economy’s sake!). I think it’s more useful, or perhaps more
realistic, to picture economic growth as not the addition
of new money but an increasingly more practical (egalitarian) diversion of existing funds. Consumers may ‘control’ the market, but enterprise creates it. That’s what
makes it so profitable. Free enterprise is not the problem—but the true colors brought out by free reign are.
If we haven’t got a way to mitigate the greed instinct of
the biggest targets, then what’s the point of collecting
taxes? Not only are these companies making money off
of cancer and disease, they aren’t even paying their fair
share that would contribute to their eradication.
Much as there are but two certainties in life (death
and taxes), there are two major camps of thought on
this topic. There are some that would prefer to see these
funds collected by the big targets diverted back into the
common pool. Then there are some that prefer to see the
funds diverted into whosever’s pocket is wide enough to
catch them. In our democracy, for the rest of our lifetime
at least, this tug of war will always take place, there’s no
denying that. But it’s time to decide whether there are
some things worth paying for regardless of political affiliation and without a shouting match. There’s got to be
a stronger commitment to the pockets of those who are
not so self-interested. Aren’t those the people we pledged
we’d be aware of in the first place?
Listen dude, you’ve got a lot on your plate. I’m not
asking you to cure cancer. I’m not even asking you to
brush your teeth. But if you don’t believe in national
health care or more funding for medical research and
you’re wearing a blue rubber bracelet or pink Nike
Shox, then you are as irrelevant and misinformed as
Jose Canseco’s twitter page. Just because something is
one way does not mean it must stay that way forever.
At best, higher education compels us to ask better questions—and at worst to trust, then verify.
SUFFOLK FUTBOL CLUB
FALL 2013 SEASON SHOUTOUT
SUFFOLK LAW FUTBOL CLUB would like to
thank Melissa Joyce from LEXIS for her support.
With LEXIS support SLFC was able to raffle off 4
New England Revolution Tickets to Lexis training
attendees! Thank you Melissa and LEXIS!
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February 2014 | 15
The Whole World’s Gone to Pot
Art by Yuen Yi Chung
By allie deangelis
Staff Writer
The two teams facing off in Superbowl 2014 hail
from states where weed is legal. The sporting event that
gets the most media attention has inadvertently (if you
ask the NFL, unwillingly) become the symbol of the rising tide in pot politics. State-level recreational legalization finally happened, is promised to happen in other
states and the marijuana debate is finally getting the
media attention it deserves. Unfortunately the quantity
of the attention doesn’t reflect the quality of coverage and if the talking head collective treated anything else
so crassly, I’d like to think we’d stop watching them. Or
at least blog about it.
Imagine Anderson Cooper giggling while interviewing a man walking out of a clinic with his free Viagra
prescription thanks to the Healthcare Reform bill. You
can minimize the story (and the stoners) all you want,
but at the end of the day the President of the United
States took time of out his day to remark that marijuana is no more dangerous than alcohol. You may re-
call we used to have a prohibition against that, too. But
what we did to the bootleggers is nothing compared to
Reagan’s war on drugs.
President Obama has also remarked that his administration is going to take a harder look at income
inequality here in the U.S. A recent Oxfam study stated that the wealthiest people on the planet, all 85 of
them, own nearly half of all the wealth in the world.
Now if you narrow that focus to the richest country in
the world, you’d be right to assume that those statistics
get even worse. The U.S. far surpasses any other country in the share of national income going to the richest one percent. Income inequality, i.e. the gap between
what the richest person makes and the poorest person
makes, hasn’t been this wide since good old Prohibitionera 1928.
To ameliorate all this inequality, the President has
declared that we need to get more people from the bottom to positions at the top. But pulling kids up out of
poor neighborhoods and giving them the best education
money can buy just isn’t going to cut it. Take a look
around this law school. The Dean’s Office has succeeded
in tipping the status quo in the direction of a more diverse student body, and more power to them. But what
happens when the gig is up? If we haven’t solved the
problem with jobs, diversifying the graduating class
or the boardroom isn’t going to help, or, it’s but one
prong of a multi-dimensional approach. Obama’s vision
of opportunity is what we want, but what we need is
meaningful tax reform on the country’s wealthiest corporations, a National Labor Relations Board that will
stand up to the nation’s largest employers (Wal-mart),
and more power to the watchdog Consumer Financial
Protection Bureau to teach the big financial institutions
who swindled billions from the American taxpayers how
to heel. Too much big government interference for you?
I guess it’s too bad the market forgot to correct itself.
The difference between the weed debate and the
inequality story is one of appeal. We like to hear the
pundits make their silly dated Cheech jokes. It’s a bit
more sobering to hear just how steep the climb out of
the ravine really is.
Questions or comments? The author can be reached at
ajdeangelis@suffolk.edu
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The Suffolk Law Paper
Volume XV No. 2
October 2013
NY court ruling
intensifies unpaid
internship debate
By Alex Maur
Staff Writer
Photograph by Yuen Yi Chung, Art Director.
CHEERS! The Women’s Law Association, headed by President Brianna Reed (right), hosted an Annual Welcome Back event on Thu., Sep. 26,
in the Faculty Dining Room.
Heavy consequences of Congressional inaction
By Andrew Di Iorio
News Editor
The chess game between Democrats and
Republicans to fund the government saw a
significant move on Sep. 20, 2013. Republicans passed a continuing resolution (“CR”)
that would keep the government running
through mid-December but took away funding for the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”).
Without money set aside for the President’s
marquee domestic achievement, the bill has
little hope for passage in the Senate. Senator
Rand Paul (R-KY) noted the pipe dream at
play here, “We probably can’t defeat or get
rid of Obamacare.” Although conservative
voters may dislike the ACA, they will be even
more upset if their senators cause the federal
government to come to a halt; many Republicans are reading these smoke signals.
Consequences of Congressional Inaction
The political drama which has ensued
for the last several weeks has pushed back
the schedule for important pieces of legislation that can help Americans. First and foremost, the immigration package which was
passed with legitimate bipartisan support
remains languishing in the House of Representatives. Along with the White House,
this was a priority for Republican leaders
like senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Lindsay Graham (R-SC). Months of negotiation
produced a meaningful bill that accounted
for border security and would pay down the
deficit. A farm bill, which once had a chance
to become law, will be pushed back once
more for debate following the spending and
debt limit fight that is upon us. The farm bill
gives the government the authority to subsidize American farmers when prices are low
Congress, continued on page eight
This past June, a judge in the United
States District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled that two unpaid
interns who worked on the set of the movie
Black Swan were employees and should have
been paid. In 2011, Eric Glatt and Alexander
Footman brought a class action suit against
Fox Searchlight Pictures Inc., and Fox Entertainment Group. The two former interns
claimed that Fox had violated both New
York and federal labor laws when they classified them as unpaid interns instead of paid
employees.
The Fair Labor and Standards Act defines “employ” very broadly to include both
paid and unpaid work. However, the District Court relied heavily on a Department
of Labor factsheet that outlines six different
criteria that help determine whether an internship may be unpaid: (1) the internship
position must be for the benefit of the intern;
(2) the experience must be comparable to
training from an educational environment,
even if the work involves some actual operation of the facilities of the employer; (3) the
intern does not displace regular employees;
(4) the employer derives no immediate advantage from the intern (and that the intern
may sometimes actually impede operations);
(5) the intern is not necessarily entitled to
a job following the internship; (6) the employer and intern both understand that the
intern is not entitled to wages during the internship.
Using this set of criteria, the court found
that the intern positions at Fox Searchlight, a
for-profit organization, were not educational
in nature, and violated federal law. The judge
ruled that they should have been paid and
viewed their experiences working with the
production company as more similar to that
of regular employees. The court also rejected
what is known as the “primary benefit test,”
which states that the unpaid internship
is legal as long as the benefit to the intern
outweighs the benefit to the employer, and
instead focused on the stricter Department
Unpaid, continued on page eight
INSIDE | “No Call” Policy, 3 | Dirty Farms, 5 | Crossword & Horoscopes, 9 | Boston History, 11 | Commentary, 12
�2 | October 2013
DOCKET
UPCOMING
OCTOBER
FRI
7
EVENTS
4
MON
D I C T A
Second Annual Corporate Counsel Institute:
Technology & In-House Counsel – Managing to
Protect and Enhance Your Business
CENTER FOR ADVANCED LEGAL STUDIES
9am-5pm | Room 295
Register: 617.573.8627, als@suffolk.edu, www.law.suffolk.edu/als
FRI
18
SAT
19
THU
24
Ahead of the Game, An Evening with Bruins GM
Peter Chiarelli
DEAN CAMILLE NELSON, OFFICE OF PROFESSIONAL AND
CAREER DEVELOPMENT (OPCD), & SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT LAW ASSOCIATION (SELA)
5:30pm | First Floor Function Room
Reception to follow. RSVP to bruins@suffolk.edu.
Fall Ball
STUDENT BAR ASSOCIATION (SBA)
8pm-12:30am | New England Aquarium
SBA is maintaining a wait list for Fall Ball tickets. Email sbasocial@suffolk.edu to
be added.
Battle of Boston Softball Tournament
SUFFOLK SOFTBALL CLUB
Moakley Field (South Boston)
Players needed! SULS Softball is defending its title in the annual tournament which
features all the Boston area law schools. For more information, contact AJ Chalifour
at sulssoftball@gmail.com.
Internship Information Sessions
INTERNSHIP PROGRAMS
Session I, 2-4pm; Session II, 5-6:30pm | Corcoran Room, Floor 7
Multiple for-credit internship programs will be discussed. For more information,
contact wrodriguez@suffolk.edu.
NOVEMBER
TUE 5 Boston General Municipal Election
CITY OF BOSTON
7am-8pm
Vote for mayor and city councilors. Visit cityofboston.gov/elections for more information and voter status.
TO BE DETERMINED
First Annual Golf Gala: “A Night That Has
Nothing to Do With Golf.”
SUFFOLK LAW GOLF CLUB
Featuring drinks and food pairings inspired by your favorite legal cases. Tickets go
on sale soon. Check www.facebook.com/SuffolkLawGolfClub for updates.
Skyzone Trampoline Dodgeball & Open Jump Night
PHI DELTA PHI & DICTA
Reserve a spot: thesuffolklawpaper@gmail.com.
D I C T A
The Suffolk Law Paper
Volume XV No. 2
October 2013
thesuffolklawpaper@gmail.com
Editor-in-Chief
Jennifer Faillace
Managing Editor
Alexandra Hassell
Art Director
Yuen Yi Chung
News Editor
Andrew K. Di Iorio
Layout Editor
Hillary S. Cheng
Opinion Editor
Alex Zamenhof
Staff Writers & Copy Editors
allie deangelis Jeff Gangi Shannon O’Connor
Lucas Oliver Alex Maur
Board of Publishers
Jennifer Faillace
Alexandra Hassell
Melanie Klibanoff
Casandra Medeiros
Dicta is the official student newspaper of the Suffolk Law School community, existing
solely to help foster a sense of community through communication. The goal of Dicta is to
educate, inform, enlighten, and entertain the student body through outstanding reporting
and editorials on news, events, trends, sports, arts, food, and popular culture.
The opinions and views expressed in Dicta are not necessarily those of the Dicta staff
and are not the opinions of Suffolk University Law School or the student body. Suffolk
Law School students control and conduct all facets of this paper. Dicta does not discriminate against any persons and complies with the university policies concerning equality.
Dicta encourages students, alumni, faculty, and administrators to submit letters to the
editor and articles for publication. Submissions should include the author’s name, class
and/or position at the university or in the community. Dicta reserves the right to edit and
publish all submissions. Anonymous submissions will not be published.
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Suffolk’s
New “No Call”
Policy
Jennifer Faillace
Editor-in-Chief
October 2013 | 3
Suffolk University School of Law recently added a “no call” policy to the
student handbook. The policy addresses the increasing incidence of parents
calling the school on behalf of their enrolled student-child. If you‘re interested
in reading the policy, you might have to dig a little bit, it’s located in the handbook’s section on the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA).
Under FERPA, access to a student’s “education records” has always been
restricted. The Act defines “education records” as records “directly related
to a student and maintained by the institution or by a party acting for the
institution.” However, despite the privacy restrictions, Suffolk previously allowed students to permit some communication between the administration
and students’ parents through an informal waiver of their FERPA rights.
Suffolk’s new policy codifies the Administration’s position that appropriate communications about such matters as a student’s current enrollment,
academic record, or requests for transcripts should occur solely between the
student and the administration directly.
Now, your parents cannot call to request a transcript on your behalf, cannot email the Dean of Students to ask about your course load, and certainly
cannot ask what time you will be home for dinner. They have no
right to communicate with the school in order to access
any of your information that may constitute “education records.”
The policy was drafted by the Dean of Students office with assistance from additional
associate and assistant deans.
For the complete policy, go to law.
suffolk.edu > Offices > Dean of Students
> Student Handbook > Policies > Family Education Rights and Privacy Act.
After the launch of the new Suffolk
Law website, the student handbook
should be located under “Student
Life” > “policies.”
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FALL
2013
Calendar
Hearsay Hazards | September 12
Developing an Exit Plan: How to
Realize the Value of
Your Law Practice | September 26
2nd Annual Corporate Counsel Institute | October 4
The Masterman Institute:
Tribute to Anthony Lewis | October 10
Facing Complex Issues in Family Court Issues | October 17
Crash Course--What Is IP Anyway? | October 18
40th Annual NLRB/U.S. DOL Labor Law Conference | October 24
Emerging Trends in Health Care Fraud Litigation | November 7
Policing in Trying Times:
Law, Policy, and Practice in a Post-9/11 World | November 8
Resolving Business Disputes
Using Collaborative Law | November 15
Legal Practice Innovation 101 | November 21
Design Patents: Modernizing an
Old Property Interest | November 22
Veteran’s Benefits | December 6
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Feeling Cooped Up
October 2013 | 5
From farms to “Concentrated Feeding Operations”
Photograph by Hillary Cheng, Layout Editor.
By Jennifer Faillace
Editor-in-Chief
Lawsuits are mounting against industrial agricultural operations in the U.S. Two recent lawsuits involve Concentrated Feeding
Operations or “CAFOS” in Iowa and Maryland. These animal-growing operations are
contracted to produce chicken, beef cattle,
and other animals for companies like Perdue.
CAFOs confine animals to cages indoors for
their entire lives until they are slaughtered.
As a result, the operations produce large
amounts of animal waste which is not regulated under the federal Clean Water Act or
Clean Air Act. According to a recent article
in the Westlaw Journal Environmental, there are
about 450,000 CAFOs in the U.S.
These feeding operations are being sued
by citizens and non-profit groups for polluting the water and air with runoff and noxious
odors caused by large amounts of manure
and other by-products of raising animals in
confined spaces.
Trouble in the Hen House
A suit in Maryland was just dismissed
for failure to identify the correct source of
the pollution – chicken poop or cow poop?
Lead plaintiff Waterkeeper Alliance alleged
it was chicken poop (actually, the technical
term is “chicken litter”) from the “chicken
houses.” The court decided that the source of
the pollution was likely from the cattle manure and not the chickens.
Waterkeeper Alliance, a non-profit
with members in Maryland, brought the suit
against the Maryland chicken CAFO, known
as Hudson Farm. Hudson Farm was under
contract with Perdue to raise Cornish hens.
Waterkeeper sued Hudson Farm and Perdue
alleging that the chicken litter (a mixture
of chicken manure and other material) was
contributing to the significant pollution of
the nearby river. Samples of the river showed
levels of pollution in excess of federal Clean
Water Act standards. Waterkeeper, the
court, and the defendants agreed that the
river was polluted, and likely from animal
manure. The decision stated “the Pocomoke
River, a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay, in
whose watershed the Hudson Farm is located, is impaired by nitrogen, phosphorus, and
bacteria, all pollutants that are associated
with animal manure.” Waterkeeper Alliance,
Inc. v. Hudson, CIV.A. WMN-10-487, 2012 WL
6651930 (D. Md. Dec. 20, 2012).
However, the court was not satisfied
by Waterkeeper’s investigation of Hudson
Farm. Waterkeeper’s investigation included
an aerial fly-over, multiple aerial photographs, twelve water samples of the river
over two years, and an analysis of their samples in conjunction with sampling done by
the Maryland Department of Agriculture.
The court found that the sampling and testimony of both of Waterkeeper’s experts was
insufficient to establish that Hudson Farm’s
chicken house caused the pollution. Instead,
the court concluded that the likely cause of
the pollution was the cow manure - not the
chicken manure. The court dismissed the
suit entirely, stating that “any claim under
the [Clean Water Act] based upon discharges from the cattle operation would be beyond
the scope of the [Notice of Intent to Sue letter], which was clearly limited to poultry
waste.” Id.
The only upside to this story is that the
court refused to order Waterkeeper to pay
the defendants’ multi-million dollar legal
fees. The court denied legal fees for Hudson
Farm and Perdue, finding that “Waterkeeper
Alliance's lawsuit was not ‘frivolous, unreasonable or without foundation’ or that the
group continued to pursue the lawsuit ‘after
it clearly became so.” See Waterkeeper Alliance
Inc. v. Hudson, 2013 WL 4561739 (D. Md. Aug
27, 2013). The court applied the standard for
civil rights cases in this environmental citizen suit brought under the citizen suit provision of the federal Clean Water Act in finding in favor of Waterkeeper.
Bad Air in Iowa
This past August, parents of children attending a school in Iowa sued a local CAFO
for air pollution emissions. The suit alleges
that emissions from the CAFO, which is
located near the school, allegedly cause
asthma. The suit cites a 2006 asthma study
showing increased rates of asthma at the elementary school. Further, the suit includes
the findings of a 2011 air quality study which
showed levels of pollutants in excess of the
federal Clean Air Act standards. See Zook et al.
v. McCarthy et al., No. 13-CV-1315, complaint filed
(D.D.C. Aug. 29, 2013).
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6 | October 2013
TRICK OR
TREAT!
Give me
something
good to eat?
Artwork by Yuen Yi Chung, Art Director.
SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL
Fútbol Club
Season Opener at Emmet’s
Sponsored and
Supported by:
more details to be
announced soon.
Captain: Darius Pakrooh
Co-Captain: Chris Barnett and Steve DiCairano
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Congressional deadlock
Congress, continued from page one
so that they can maintain their crops when
the market doesn’t demand them. Additionally, the farm bill provides for insurance during harsh conditions such as drought, tornadoes, and crop disease. Gun control will not
move as the focus of Congress continues to
be on the spending limit and the threat of
government shutdown. Mental health reform, which is cited by Republicans as the
cause of recent mass shootings, will not receive any worthy attention from law makers
either. However, the House did pass a separate provision that cut $40 billion dollars
from the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (“SNAP”). The Washington
Post noted, “Cutting back on the food stamp
program will have a sharp impact on low-income households, the majority of which are
headed by single women.”
Why Are We at This Juncture?
Democrats and Republicans have not
been able to find common ground on where
to cut spending and where investment
should be made. Democrats will hold firm
to the funding put in place so that the ACA
can remain in effect, particularly as health
care exchanges open on Oct. 1. Republicans
seek to level funding for government operations for a second consecutive year through
the continuation of the sequester. Last edition’s readers will remember that sequester
forced significant spending cuts throughout
the government, including required days off.
However, the threat of government shutdown was coupled with the funding of the
health care law as Republicans passed a continuing resolution (“CR”), but specifically
eliminated money for healthcare. President
Obama highlighted their possible motivations on Sept. 19: “They’re focused on politics. They’re focused on trying to mess with
me. They’re not focused on you.”
Market Consequences
The real impact of a government shutdown will be felt on Wall Street. We have
seen many financial leaders speak out against
A Dicta “Thank You” to Dean Cove
inaction, and moves such as the September
20 vote, that invite conflict. Alan Greenspan,
the former Chairman of the Federal Reserve,
opined recently, “both uncompromising
sides of our ongoing debate on fiscal and
other issues need to recognize that financial crisis lurks should we fail to resolve our
deeply disruptive fiscal imbalance. And that
imbalance is far greater than the official data
portray [because of contingent liabilities to
the U.S. government from possible rescues of
large financial firms and iconic nonfinancial
firms].” The market will assuredly have a sell
off if the government stops operations on the
first of October, prompting more economic
insecurity.
What Will Happen?
Fortunately, commentators are not predicting a government shutdown on the last
day of September. (The government runs out
of money on Oct. 1, the same day as the opening of the health care exchanges. I’m not sure
if this was planned.) However, a great majority are predicting that Republicans will
be blamed by Americans for this turmoil.
They use the previous “movies” we’ve seen
in recent memory to predict the continuation of this regretful saga. Once zero-hour
arrives with the prospect of being blamed
for shutting down the government, Speaker
John Boehner (R-OH) will pull together
enough of his colleagues to keep the coffee
pots running. The “gun to the head” scenario
provides Boehner the greatest amount of political cover from tea party outlash. Since the
Democratic Senate refuses to get rid of the
Supreme Court-validated health care reform
bill, it will be in the final version of a spending measure. The President will sign the financial bandaid, which keeps the Pentagon
in the dark about how it can keep our service
members safe, and will prevent logical positive action. It is likely that the Senate will
pass a CR that has ACA funding in it, the
House and Senate bills will go to conference
committee (face-to-face negotiation) and the
requisite horse trading will commence to
keep the national parks open.
Photograph by Yuen Yi Chung, Art Director.
Photograph by Yuen Yi Chung, Art Director.
Dicta Secretary and staff writer Melanie Klibanoff shakes hands with Lorraine Cove, Associate Administrative Dean of Student Enrollment Services and Registrar in the Registrar’s Office. Mention Dean Cove to a student, and you will likely hear stories of how she personally
helped them with class scheduling, enrollment status questions, or exam day mix-ups. Thank
you, Dean Cove, for the personal touch; we should have visited your office sooner.
District court judge rules unpaid
interns have legal standing to bring
suit for wages owed
Unpaid, continued from page one
of Labor standards. Robert Weich, a Wisconsin complainant, gave an interview with
the La Crosse Tribune about his claim. He
described, “The company takes advantage
of free help…They have 15 to 20 interns at
any one time…[they have] them doing some
things that normal employees would do.”
Following this ruling in New York, debate over the acceptability of these unpaid
intern positions has increased across the
fashion, entertainment, publishing and legal
sectors. With youth employment arguably at
its highest in decades, recent graduates are
beginning to push for change and demand
more out of their internship experiences.
Commentators also worry that the acceptance of these unpaid positions is leading to
greater economic inequality, arguing that
these internships only help advance the ca-
reers of recent graduates who can afford to
work for free.
Some attorneys disagree with fighting
against this system through the courts. They
argue that these interns willingly sign up
for positions knowing that they will not be
paid. They believe that regardless of how you
classify the positions, they still help “build
resumes” and provide insight into how a particular industry operates.
The validity of these unpaid positions
in the private sector remains unclear. Since
June there have been a number of other cases
brought by interns who have shared similar
experiences. Jack Newhouse is an attorney
for former entertainment interns and noted
the future of this practice on Forbes.com,
“The recent uptick in cases indicates that the
threat of a lawsuit is no longer a theoretical
risk associated with hiring unpaid interns.”
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Horoscopes
CROSSWORD
Fall Potpourri
Fall Potpourri Faillace
By Jennifer
Libra
You always weigh your options, but the
time has come to question your routine and
who you take orders from. Networking can
be a beautiful thing and so too is your significant other. Indulge yourself in both and
think about all the cool stuff you can buy
loans you can pay back when you
land that new gig.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
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10
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ACROSS
4 November test on professional responsibility
5 fish sign
Across
8Down
Outgoing Boston mayor
9 Massachusetts Attorney General and candidate for Governor Martha Coakley had two
1 A "best friends"
4 November test on professional reof these favorite fall beer from Maine.
Grab a court Sidebar and you’ll
sponsibility
10 opinions by one at on a question that is not essential to its decision even though it may
likely enjoy the
be directly involved. aftertaste of Bud
Light.
uzzle-maker.com/crossword_FreePuzzle.cgi
2 A new Student Handbook policy
resulting from too many “helicopter parents”
3 Casual conversation about other
people, typically involving details
that are not confirmed as being
true.
6 Wondering if you’re wearing a
pair? You probably aren’t.
October 2013 | 9
Scorpio
You’ll get your
pat on the back
just as soon as
you sit down
already.
No
one rivals your
drive. Just look
at
Leonardo
DiCaprio. Everyone wants to
make money on
a blockbuster,
but who can stand
listening to the
critics? Take a seat,
and take some notes.
5 Fish sign
Sagittarius
You know the value of patience —
but it’s high time you ask for what you’ve
been looking for from that professor, supervisor, boss or editor.
8 Outgoing Boston mayor
Page 1 of 2
9 Massachusetts Attorney General and
candidate for Governor Martha
Coakley had two of these “best
friends”
10 Opinions by a court on a question
that is not essential to its decision
even though it may be directly involved.
7 This year’s Fall Ball theme
11 Lexis’s resources surpass Westlaw
in this practice area
Capricorn
Don’t let a disappointment or a missed
opportunity get you down, or as they say,
check yo self before you wreck yo self. Your
next win is right around the corner.
Aquarius
A clever law student like yourself knows
that responsibility can mean setting accurate
expectations for yourself and others. Manage
your time and own that new role, position,
project—whatever fell into your lap unexpectedly last month.
Pisces, Pisces, Pisces
You’re strong and sturdy but you’re not
ready for this little surprise. You’ll be swimming upstream with work for a while, but
you will be rewarded in aspects of your life
outside of law school.
ANSWERS
Aries
Desire to take the bull by the horns this
semester? Check. Ability to take the lead
concerning your extracurricular endeavors?
Check. While your commitment to work
is commendable (and often aggressive) all
work and no play makes Jack (or Jill) a dull
boy. Pace yourself, and don’t forget to make
room for fun this semester. You should accept that invitation to your neighbors Halloween party.
Taurus
You are passionate about your work
and you want others to take notice.
Harness
this
by working on
perfecting a resume, a project,
or a piece of
writing. It’s true
what they say—
it’s all in the delivery.
Gemini
Harmonize your
inner twins this month
by pairing your need to communicate with your natural wit.
Entertainment can be educational, and
vice versa.
Cancer
You’re all about moving forward this
month, so you don’t have time to let your
figurative outer shell (you are the crab after
all) hold you back. Make the decision that’s
been nagging you and stick with it. If all else
fails, you’ve got your friends. And a rom-com.
Leo
You need to go back to the gym. You’re
succeeding in school, but don’t get a big head
just yet. Take your friends’ advice.
Virgo
You love the fresh start that the new
school year brings. Bask in your diligence
and accomplishments thus far—you’ve been
running on all cylinders. Take a breather and
let things run their course. Unless of course
your co-pilot has a horrible sense of direction.
Created by staff writer Allie DeAngelis, edited by
staff writer Shannon O’Connor and Editor-in-Chief
Jennifer Faillace. Artwork by Yuen Yi Chung, Art
Director. All praise, comments, and concerns can be
directed to thesuffolklawpaper@gmail.com.
1. PUMPKINHEAD 2. NOCALLPOLICY 3. GOSSIP 4. MPRE 5. PISCES 6. PANTS 7. GATSBY 8. MENINO 9. LABRADORRETRIEVERS 10. DICTA 11. TAX
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BOSTON HISTORY
How much do you really know about Boston?
Photograph by Yuen Yi Chung, Art Director.
By Jeff Gangi
Staff Writer
Looking to take a break and get some fresh air between
classes? Take a walk in America’s oldest public park; it’s
right across the street. Boston Common was purchased for
30 pounds (current exchange rate makes that $48.10) and set
aside as our “common” ground in 1640, making it America’s
oldest public park. There are many statues and plaques
throughout worth a quick read.
Fact or Fiction? A giant tank of molasses exploded and
flooded the streets of Boston. Oddly enough, this is a real story. In the North End, on January 15, 1919, sometime around
noon a giant tank of molasses exploded. The explosion sent
a wall, some say as high as 15 feet, down Commercial Street,
killing 21, injuring more than 150 and destroying buildings in
its path. It took six years to reach a conclusion of the more
than 100 cases brought. After 3,000 witnesses gave testimo-
ny and six years had passed, the court ruled the United States
Industrial Alcohol Company was negligent and was ordered
to pay almost a million dollars to the plaintiffs.
“Boston Harbor-a Teapot Tonight!” Those were the
cries heard from a gathering of over 5,000 people, more than
one-third of Boston’s population at the time. After leaving
the Old South Meeting House on December 16, 1773 the angry
colonists, joined by others who had been gathering at local
taverns, dumped 340 chests of tea into Boston Harbor (That’s
why the water is still brown.) Many more interesting facts
about the Boston Tea Party can be found at http://www.bostonteapartyship.com/old-south-meeting-house-history. The
British occupied the Meeting House shortly after in 1775, filling it with dirt and using it for horse riding practice, but we
all know how that story turned out. Then the Meeting House
nearly burned in the Great Boston Fire of 1872, but was saved
by the timely arrival of a fire engine from New Hampshire.
The Old South Meeting House is still standing at 310 Wash-
ington Street, a short walk from the law school. It’s open for
tours from 10AM-4PM in the winter.
High fly ball to right center field! Boston is home to the
oldest professional baseball park in America. Fenway Park
opened its doors in 1912 and celebrated its 100th Anniversary
last year on April 20, 2012. The Sox are looking like playoff
contenders this year, so take a study break and catch a game.
Quack, Quack! Don’t take my word for it: take a Duck
Tour. The tour company uses the WWII era DUKW vehicle
(slightly modified from those used to storm the beaches at
Normandy and Guadalcanal) and gives an interesting land
and water historical tour of Boston. Tours leave from the Prudential Center, Museum of Science and Boston Aquarium.
Come back next month for another look at some Boston
history. Welcome to Boston and don’t forget to take a look
around.
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October 2013 | 11
COMMENTARY
DeAngelis: The Soul Proprietor
By allie deangelis
Staff Writer
There is this nagging echo that reverberates against my
face every time I talk to a classmate that reminds me daily of
some depressing force of reality. There’s the weak job market, the shaky economy, low funding, and cuts to budgets.
We’ve been having this conversation for the last three or four
years now. Telling someone to get over it seems a little harsh,
so let me mellow the delivery with an anecdote. I am sitting
in my favorite class in the row above a boy who brings his
computer to class. His desktop background is a plain black
screen, with plain white capital letters centered in the middle reminding him to “DO YOUR WORK.” Read that again.
The simplicity of this mantra is so incredibly fitting, more
satisfying than our empty stress and offers some zen comfort
to this crazy life. You go, Glen Coco.
It’s a familiar phenomenon: students with the least
amount of time left before graduation wish to do the least
amount of work. Obviously. We’ve all been there before. If
this time of my life were memorialized by a Thought Catalogue article, the headline would read “Top Ten Things You
Should be Stressing About, Now.” And on this list, I think
school work is number 12. Maybe 15? It depends on how
much money you opted to throw away at the bookstore this
year. Yes, this is Heartbreak Hill for us 3Ls and 4Ls in the
Suffolk Law marathon. We should be hitting our stride, but
instead we are banging our heads against the wall.
It is easy to become preoccupied by the incessant accessory noise and disenchanted by the rat race out to the legal
workforce. However, if you put the cart before the horse, you
may end up spinning your wheels. Stop panicking. Stop reading articles that justify your Gen-Y malcontent with your
place in the world. It’s uncertainty which breeds anxiety.
Our school is a virtual petri dish of sorts, but you can’t let all
the bull distract you from the commitment you made three
or four years ago.
Do your reading, go to class, know your professors and
engage in learning what you signed up to learn. Do your work.
You’ll be fine. If you let fear of the unknown sit on your back,
you will be so worn down you’ll have nothing left when the
clock runs out on this little law school gig of ours. Breathe in
some focus and push the naysayers aside - and don’t forget to
network, network, network.
PHOTO JOURNAL
fútbol
Photos courtesy of the Suffolk Law Fútbol Club.
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NESADSU Alumni Magazine
& Then
The
Spring 2008
Issue # 14
Daly Daly!
Rita Daly, now Assistant Professor in the Graphic
Design program at NESADSU, has been teaching art
and design since she was in college. From art classes for
pre-college students, to after-school programs and classes
for two-year-olds and their parents, to workshops for
graphic designers, to college-level design school courses
—Rita has taught them all. With an undergraduate
degree in interior design and a minor in graphic design
from Pratt and an MFA in Printmaking from Connecticut College, she has the background to formulate
solutions to design problems large and small. And, with
Morgan, her husband and partner, they are Daly & Daly,
Inc. specializing in “corporate, institutional and retail
identity through graphic and environmental design”.
Rita began teaching graphic design at NESADSU as an
adjunct instructor in the fall of 1998 and, in the fall of
2005, became a full-time Assistant Professor. She has
since taught a number of courses and was instrumental
in formulating the MA program in Graphic Design,
which, in its third year, now enrolls 24 students.
I recently asked Rita about her career.
“He (Morgan) starts with A and works his way through
the alphabet in an orderly way… I start with N and
bounce to P and then A… That’s why we are Daly &
Daly and not just Daly.”
Q.You and Morgan started Daly & Daly thirty years
ago. What has kept you going and what has kept
your work fresh?
A. We work together—we live together, we are
seven hours apart in age and we are both Leos. I’m
not sure what the answer is, but I do know that the
field of graphic design is an exciting and stimulating
profession.
Each client brings its own body of knowledge
that we have to comprehend in order to produce
thoughtful and meaningful
communications. The cerebral
stimulation is amazing, always
presenting us with something
new to learn, resulting in an
accumulated knowledge that
we always find useful.
Q.You two have different but very complimentary
backgrounds. That must be a significant strength. Talk
about how you work together?
A. We think differently. Morgan is an organized
thinker. He starts with A and works his way through
the alphabet in an orderly way, from one thought
to the next in a linear fashion. I do not take a linear
approach. I start with N and bounce to P and then
A, allowing me to make unique connections and easily come up with new ideas. The good news is that
most projects benefit from both approaches. That’s
why we’re Daly & Daly and not just Daly.
Q.Your clients have included such names as
Brandeis University, Brigham & Women’s Hospital,
Houghton-Mifflin, FAO Schwarz, Doubletree Hotels
and the Seaport Village Mall in Aruba.Your students
must love hearing about that project!
A. As I teach I always have many stories to tell. Our
accumulated stories often answer questions or
make points that help students understand why a
design or project should be produced in a particular way. The projects mentioned in this question all
contain three-dimensional components, now known
in the profession as Environmental Graphic Design.
In 1971 the field of Environmental Graphic Design
was in its very early stages. It really didn’t become a
known profession until the early ‘80’s. We, because
of our knowledge of creating in the built environment and our knowledge and experience in graphic
design, were poised to hit the ground running. As
witnessed by what we see each day – the Niketown
stores, Times Square, street kiosks, “T” and bus
Rita and Morgan Daly at
Daly & Daly HQ
CLIENT: Harcourt General Cinema,
time line plaque series, 1 of 20
Editor’s Note . . . . . . . . 2
Faculty Interview cont. . 3
News & Tidbits . . . . . . . . 4
Do You Know Your
Country’s Typography? . 8
Class Notes . . . . . . . . . 10
Feedback . . . . . . . . . . . 14
News & Tidbits . . . . . . . 15
Alumni Focus . . . . . . . 16
Gallery Schedule . . . . 20
�Perhaps I say this in every issue of
“& Then…”, but there is so much going
on around NESADSU that coming up
with things to write about is, thankfully,
never a problem!
Fac u lt y I n t e rv i e w
E d i t or ’ s N ot e
FACULTY
interview
Besides our upcoming reaccreditation
site visit by The Council for Interior
Design Accreditation (formerly FIDER), scheduled for the end of
March, we are actively looking at several new major programs,
to augment the existing ones in Graphic Design, Interior Design
and Fine Arts (all, of course, with the Foundation component).
We’ll keep you in the dark for a bit longer though, as any new
offerings have to pass muster with the Dean of the College of
Arts and Sciences, Ken Greenberg (who has already given his
blessing), as well as several University committees (who haven’t
yet). So, more on that later.
As always, we have wonderful accomplishments by our students
and faculty to write about.This time it’s Clara Wolverton, who
is off to London after graduation in May, and Instructor Bebe
Beard, who is likewise heading in that direction. Perhaps they
can get together with Ciara Langley, whose interview you will
find on pages 16 through 18. NESADSU is spreading its net
wider than ever! And speaking of England, our “foreign correspondent” and the designer of this magazine, Kate McLean, has
returned to the U.K. after several years in Paris. Read her article
on international typographic idiosyncrasies on page 8.
As always, the invitation to come visit the school stands.We’d
love to see you anytime. And please send us your news.
Sara
Spring 2008
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In the courses I teach, I often introduce a three-dimensional component into a project, requiring students to think about how an object
appears in three dimensions. Once they understand the approach
they are free to consider integrating this skill into their design vocabulary. Some students who have graduated have found their way
into the graphic design departments of architectural firms, where
these skills have allowed them to participate in EGD projects.
Q Where is graphic design going and what do we as a school have
to do to keep pace?
A We have to be diligent in keeping an eye on the marketplace and
carefully determine what our students need to be marketable in
this ever changing field of graphic design.
Please send your photographs and news for inclusion in the next issue. Send all
photographs, slides, or digital files, with an accompanying caption that identifies
who is in the picture and when and where it was taken. All photographs, slides
and digital files should be 300 dpi at 5”x7” (1500 x 2100 pixels, total filesize four
megabytes approximately), a high-resolution JPEG taken with at least a threemegapixel camera.
Th e N e w E n g l a n d S c h ool o f
A rt & D e s i g n at
S u f f ol k U n i v e r s i t y
A l u m n i M ag a z i n e, S p r i n g 2 0 0 8 I s s u e # 1 4
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wrap graphics, museum displays, store windows and displays honoring donors—the field of Environmental Graphic Design continues
to boom.
With NESAD’s well-formed Graphic and Interior Design programs,
I think we too are poised to offer a degree in Environmental
Graphic Design and feel that the field can do nothing but achieve
increasing growth in the future.
For those of you who are current students about to graduate, or
alums who are job-hunting, take a look at the article “Avoid the
Top Ten Resume Mistakes”, courtesy of Monster Worldwide. It’s
one of the most valuable articles of its kind I’ve seen in a long
time. It’s all common sense but, as they say, common sense isn’t
usually all that common.
EDITOR:
Sara Chadwick
design concept & DESIGN:
Kate McLean
CONTRIBUTING designer:
Rita Daly
contributing authors:
Molly Ferguson, Kate McLean
printing:
Reynolds DeWalt, New Bedford, MA
web site: www.suffolk.edu/nesad
Send updated contact information, questions or requests to Sara Chadwick at
schadwic@suffolk.edu or call (617) 994-4294 or use the new online form on the
Alumni page of the website.
cont.
The field is constantly expanding and we have to prepare our
students for what is going to happen next, while also protecting
the basics of design. An amazing array of pertinent technology is
out there today, all progressing at a dizzying pace. We have to teach
our students to understand the principals of multi media—the
principles of design in motion and usability interface and the basic
principles of the software that will guide them. Web knowledge is
essential, then there’s animation, games, user applications, interaction, miniaturization, as well as considering the social implications
and possible applications of all of the above.
But most of all I think we are poised to make a difference. Our Masters students are working on an amazing array of projects, from the
invention of a new way to e-shop, to a print guide for graphic designers to sustainability in paper selection, an instant guide that literally
reduces paper waste to nothing and even offering suggestions on
how to run a more sustainable office. The mind stretching innovation we encourage them to address is all good: for society, for the
general field of art, for the field of graphic design and for NESADSU.
Q. A letter of recommendation written on your behalf by one
of your former students cited your ability first to inspire your
students and then to teach them the “true value of researching a
project thoroughly before starting to design—… one of the foundation stones of successful graphic design.” Is research the most
important ingredient in successful design?
A. Research is the starting point of any project—even buying an
airplane ticket requires research—so why would it be eliminated
from the most important influence in your life, your education? But
design requires many other tasks and skills. You have to be able to
distill all the information you gather, facts from your client as well
CLIENT: Buick Street Café/City Covenience Store
as research, the cultural aspects of the audience focus and the most
important aspect of any design problem: the communication of a
clear, succinct point.
All of this is about approach. Once this aspect of the design process is well on its way, true designing starts. The voice a student
has formed, and the aesthetic fine-tuning of type, color, form and
composition are essential to the success of any project.You can talk
about a project for as long as you want, but, in this field, until your
ideas take physical form you have nothing.
I am pleased to hear that I inspire. I am lucky to love my work, and
am lucky to be able to communicate my excitement.
Q. Why do you teach? After all, you must be busy enough running
Daly & Daly. And what keeps you at NESADSU?
A. Morgan says I’m like a ‘Busy Box’, one of those kid’s toys with
the doors that open and close—zippers that zip and wheels that
buzz as they turn. I like Buzz. I like the challenges and I like figuring
out how to balance many things at one time so working at Daly &
Daly and teaching suits me. There is a strong link between the two.
Business keeps me aware of current client needs, current technology, where the marketplace is going and how it’s changing. Without
this I don’t think my teaching would be as successful or at least I
feel that putting my feet in both arenas helps me place a perspective on both the graphic design profession and teaching.
What I feel is important is my ability to share the knowledge I have
collected over the years with my students. Within my professional
career lots of thinking and concluding has happened allowing me to
help students do the same.
Another part of what makes my heart sing is seeing students
progress from sometimes not even knowing what graphic design
is, to becoming proficient designers. Seeing them use all the small
things we all have contributed to their education, enabling them to
create a voice for themselves and to find a life’s work that satisfies.
What they do, and what they become, makes all our lives so much
richer. S.C. §
�N e w s & Ti d b i t s
NEWS tidbits
&
Avoid The Top 10
Going for the Gold(smiths)
It’s deceptively easy to make mistakes on your resume and exceptionally
difficult to repair the damage once an employer gets it. So prevention is
critical, especially if you’ve never written one before. Here are the most
common pitfalls and how you can avoid them.
1. Typos and Grammatical Errors
NESADSU Fine Arts
senior Clara Wolverton
learned in January that
she has been accepted
into the Master of
Fine Arts program at
Goldsmith’s College of
the University of Lon-
Detachment, 2007
Resume Mistakes
don. She will be following in the footsteps of
Sara Dziadik (Fine Arts
2004) who completed
her MFA there in 2006.
Goldsmiths is one of Britain’s “premier art schools”,
in the words of Fine Arts Program Director Audrey
Goldstein. A college of the University of London
since 1904, and located in southeast London,
Goldsmiths was founded in 1891. Its long list of
famous alumni include Lucien Freud, Mary Quant
and Damien Hirst.
According to Audrey, Goldsmiths “is a rigorous,
highly regarded program. Charles Saatchi, the
contemporary collector and gallerist, often takes
students right out of the MFA program to collect
and show, so the level of competition is intense.”
She goes on to say, “It is very difficult for students
coming out of a BFA program in the Fine Arts to
be accepted directly into MFA programs. Most
schools will not accept students immediately after
graduation, preferring instead to build their Masters
population on more experienced students, so this is
a real honor for Clara”.
Your resume needs to be grammatically perfect. If it isn’t, employers
will read between the lines and draw not-so-flattering conclusions
about you, like: “This person can’t write,” or “This person obviously
doesn’t care.”
The work that Clara has recently produced (and
• Recruited, hired, trained and supervised more than 20
employees in a restaurant with $2 million in annual sales.
that also appears on the back cover of this magazine) deals with detachment. “The portraits that I
create are intimate and real. In the tradition of their
British rulers, Kenyan children are portrayed with
the technique, style and presentation that would be
acceptable to an affluent colonialist… I want the
viewers strolling by the collection to recognize the
detachment we excuse. But this isn’t history. We
embrace our ignorance in the same way when we
change the channel. Skipping from doe-eyed starving
children to America’s national talent show. …. We
detach ourselves from the reality of a majority of
the world, and with conscious intention.”
Clara’s next works will involve scenes from a
Kenyan childhood, done in fresco, a technique
we’re accustomed to, but used here to bridge the
gap between our aesthetic ancestors and another’s
reality. S.C. §
2. Lack of Specifics
Employers need to understand what you’ve done and accomplished. For example:
• Worked with employees in a restaurant setting.
Both of these phrases could describe the same person, but clearly
the second one’s details and specifics will more likely grab an
employer’s attention.
3. Attempting One Size Fits All
Whenever you try to develop a one-size-fits-all resume to send to
all employers, you almost always end up with something employers
will toss in the recycle bin. Employers want you to write a resume
specifically for them. They expect you to clearly show how and why
you fit the position in a specific organization.
4. Highlighting Duties Instead of Accomplishments
It’s easy to slip into a mode where you simply start listing job duties on your resume. For example:
• Attended group meetings and recorded minutes.
• Worked with children in a day-care setting.
• Updated departmental files.
Employers, however, don’t care so much about what you’ve done as
what you’ve accomplished in your various activities. They’re looking
for statements more like these: future organizational reference.
Spring 2008
• Used laptop computer to record weekly meeting minutes and
compiled these in a Microsoft Word-based file for future organizational reference.
• Developed three daily activities for preschool-age children and
prepared them for a 10-minute holiday program performance.
• Reorganized 10 years’ worth of unwieldy files, making them
easily accessible to department members.
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5. Going on Too Long or Cutting Things Too Short
Despite what you may read or hear, there are no real rules governing the length of your resume. Why? Because human beings, who
have different preferences and expectations where resumes are
concerned, will be reading it. That doesn’t mean you should start
sending out five-page resumes, of course. Generally speaking, you
usually need to limit yourself to a maximum of two pages. But don’t
feel you have to use two pages if one will do. Conversely, don’t
cut the meat out of your resume simply to make it conform to an
arbitrary one-page standard.
6. A Bad Objective
Employers do read your resume’s objective statement, but too
often they plow through vague pufferies like, “Seeking a challenging
position that offers professional growth.” Give employers something specific and, more importantly, something that focuses on
their needs as well as your own. Example: “A challenging entry-level
marketing position that allows me to contribute my skills and experience in fund-raising for nonprofits.”
7. No Action Verbs
Avoid using phrases like “responsible for.” Instead, use action verbs:
“Resolved user questions as part of an IT help desk serving 4,000
students and staff.”
8. Leaving Off Important Information
You may be tempted, for example, to eliminate mention of the jobs
you’ve taken to earn extra money for school. Typically, however, the
soft skills you’ve gained from these experiences (e.g., work ethic,
time management) are more important to employers than you
might think.
9. Visually Too Busy
If your resume is wall-to-wall text featuring five different fonts,
it will most likely give the employer a headache. So show your
resume to several other people before sending it out. Do they find
it visually attractive? If what you have is hard on the eyes, revise.
10. Incorrect Contact Information
I once worked with a student whose resume seemed incredibly
strong, but he wasn’t getting any bites from employers. So one day,
I jokingly asked him if the phone number he’d listed on his resume
was correct. It wasn’t. Once he changed it, he started getting the
calls he’d been expecting. Moral of the story: Double-check even
the most minute, taken-for-granted details -- sooner rather than
later. PeterVogt, MonsterTRAK Career Coach §
Copyright 2007 — Monster Worldwide, Inc. All Rights Reserved. You may not copy,
Prohibited/Protected, 2007
reproduce or distribute this article without the prior written permission of Monster
Worldwide. This article first appeared on Monster, the leading online global network
for careers. To see other career-related articles, visit http://content.monster.com.
�N e w s & Ti d b i t s
NEWS tidbits
&
Pre-College Alumnus
John Bogan
Molly Ferguson talks with John Bogan, BFA 2008. John Bogan of Beverly, MA will be the first alumnus of our Pre-College
program for high school students to earn a BFA (in Graphic Design) from NESADSU.The Pre-College program, which began
in 2000 with 10 students, this past summer enrolled 23 in 2 sections. John, who took part in Pre-College in the summer of
2003, entered NESADSU in the fall of 2004 and will finish his degree program in May. Our congratulations to him and
thanks to Molly Ferguson, Continuing Education program staffer, for putting this interview together.
Q. Why did you decide to take Pre-College at the
School of Art & Design?
Although I have had a passion and talent for art since
childhood, my high school art teachers and family deserve a lot of credit for encouraging me to pursue that
passion. During my junior year my art teacher informed
me about the various Pre-College-type programs in
the area. I decided that instead of bumming around the
entire summer, I would take Pre-College at Suffolk. I
wanted to prepare for the more difficult assignments
in my senior-level classes and also wanted to get an
idea of what college art classes would be like. I liked
the location of Suffolk, and I liked the idea of going to a
small art school within a larger university.
Q. What is your best memory from Pre-College?
My teachers, (Assistant Professor) Randal (Thurston)
and (Instructor) Paul (Andrade) took the time to show
us their own work. It was really strong stuff that left
me impressed and inspired. I will always remember
painting with Paul, and how he played Tom Waits or
some other crazy tunes on a little boom box.
Q. What was your favorite project or fieldtrip?
I remember going to local galleries around Back Bay
and seeing work that really resonated with me. I was
so eager to grab any gallery cards I could, to find out
more. I wanted to soak it all up.
Q. What did you enjoy most about the studio/classroom environment?
I was really fond of the teachers. The way they presented the assignments and activities was exciting. I was
curious about everything; the studios, Boston, classes,
teachers. In high school I had fine-tuned my technical
drawing and painting skills, but it wasn’t until Pre-College that I began to learn the conceptual ins and outs
of design.
Q. How was the Pre-College experience different from
your high-school art classes?
The Pre-College experience was totally new and
unique. At that point I had no experience with the basic
elements of design, apart from composition. Pre-College gave me the freedom to develop my own ideas,
and I also got a sense of what college would be like.
Q. What type of student would you recommend take
Pre-College?
I would recommend Pre-College to any student who is
considering studying art or design and wants to get a
preview of what college studios are like.
Q. How did Pre-College help prepare you for the
undergraduate arts experience? Did participating in
Pre-College influence your choice of major?
I was introduced to more advanced concepts of design
and process. Participating in Pre-College really helped
solidify my decision to go into graphic design, and made
me feel that Suffolk was the right school for me!
Spring 2008
Q. Now that you are about to graduate with your
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design, what are your
plans for the future?
I plan to pursue a job while also focusing on my art
and music. I am interested in publication, packaging
and print design. I’ve applied to Project M, a summer
program where small groups produce designs that will
help others. I’m also touring Europe with my band over
spring break! I’m just looking forward to graduating
and starting to work on amazing stuff! Molly Ferguson §
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John in Color
NESADSU Seeks Reaccreditation of
its Interior Design Programs
Having undergone reaccreditation by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design
(NASAD) last year, one might think that would
hold us for a while. Not so. This year it’s the
turn of the Interior Design programs, graduate
and undergraduate.
While NESADSU’s interior design programs
have been accredited by FIDER (which is
now called the Council for Interior Design
Accreditation) since 1983, those programs, like
the department as a whole, must periodically
undergo review in order to maintain accredited status. (The Graphic Design and Fine Arts
programs do not have specialized accreditation.) The rapidity with which programs change
at NESADSU makes this not only mandatory
but highly desirable.
Interior Design Co-Program Director Nancy
Hackett has taken charge of this reaccreditation and has authored the program analysis
report (relieving me of the task for the first
time since the initial accreditation, for which
I am very grateful!), due in the Council’s national office eight weeks prior to the site visit,
scheduled for March 28th through April 1st of
this year.
Like the NASAD reaccreditation, Council reaccreditation looks at the program philosophy,
mission and goals, the curriculum, faculty, facilities, administration, and assessment methods
and results. The curriculum review is especially
thorough, examining every aspect of both the
BFA and MA programs, and looks at such areas
as the curriculum structure, the development
of professional values, design fundamentals, the
knowledge, skills, processes and theories of interior design, communication, building systems,
materials, regulations and professional practice.
In short, we need to demonstrate that our
programs meet certain very high standards
governing the professional education of the
interior designer.
While here, the visiting team members will
meet with students, faculty, administrators and
alumni and, should, by the end of their stay, be
able to formulate an accurate assessment of
the interior design experience at NESADSU.
Needless to say, we’ll keep you fully apprised
of the outcome of the reaccreditation process.
S.C. §
Everybody’s Going to London
NESADSU Foundation Instructor Bebe
Beard has been invited to participate in
FILMOBILE, an international conference
of artists who use cell phone video in
their art making, taking place in April at
the University of Westminster in London.
A screening and panel discussion will be
held April 2nd and 3rd at Regent Street
Polytechnic (now a part of the University), where, in 1896, brothers Auguste
and Louis Lumiere demonstrated their
machine to show moving photographs to
an audience. Bebe will also take part in
a month-long exhibition of her work on
the Harrow Campus of the University in
conjunction with the FILMOBILE conference. For more information on her work,
please visit http://bebebeard.com and for
information on the conference, please see
http://rhizome.org/announce/view/51012.
S.C. §
�Ov e r s e a s C or r e s p on d e n t
OVERSEAS
correspondent
Do you know your country’s
punctuation and typography?
Sitting writing this I have re-relocated to my homeland, the UK, where the rules of punctuation and typography are different yet again to those of the
USA and to those of France. As I was pounding the pavements (striding the sidewalks in US speak) of Manchester in my search for a wonderful design
job in a top design or advertising agency I came across a little store selling fresh fruit and vegetables, some tinned goods (canned goods) and newspapers.
Neither the newspapers nor the labels on the tinned goods were written in English. I was in the foreign foods aisle of an American supermarket that had
been removed and put into its own premises. Just for fun I bought a couple of newspapers, one Spanish, one German to see if they could add any more to
this idea of different countries having their own typographical rules, and to see if I could actually spot the differences. (See what happens when you have
too much time on your hands?)
American novel with “m-dash”
English novel with “n-dash”
Spring 2008
Compulsory spaces before punctuation in France !
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The Lesser-spotted Guillmets in situ.
Q. Was this type done in the UK or the USA?
A. This is easy. Just look at the dashes; not the hyphens, the
dashes. In the USA the long “m” dash is used to indicate a
break in thought and as an alternative to parentheses. The “m”
dash has no spaces either side of it but is kerned optically to
give a hint of white space. In the UK the “m” dash is an endangered species and rarely seen; in its place we use an “n” dash
with a space either side. Next time you travel to the UK buy a
magazine or a book and have a look.
Q. Which country has spaces BEFORE some of its
punctuation?
A. France. (And Canada?) In France you are obliged to insert
a non-breaking “n” space between the end of a sentence and
an exclamation mark or a question mark or an ellipsis (three
dots in a line) or a colon or a semi-colon or a slash. Curiously, a certain word processing package, when set to work
in French, automatically adds a normal space for you if you
forget. And curiouser still, if you receive a file from a French
version of the software, that file will add a space automatically
when you use it on your Anglophone computer. This is somewhat disconcerting the first time it happens – a sort of “there’s
a ghost in the machine” type of action! If you are a little
underworked at present I can send you a file to test this out.
Q. A guillmet, that’s a type of seabird that nests in cliffs, yeah?
A. No. Guillmets, plural, are French quotation marks which
appear quite naturally on a French « AZERTY » keyboard but
are nowhere to be seen on yours or mine! For the superpicky it has to be noted that guillmets are not the same as
two less than (<) or greater than (>) signs so don’t even try it!
Guillmets require a non-breaking « n » space between them
and any text just like the punctuation mentioned in the previous paragraph. There is another rule about when you have
a quote within a quote in French you use standard double
quotes as the secondary quote but it all gets very messy and
sometimes a secondary quote is simply italicized instead.
You learn your country’s typography by osmosis—you grow up reading, studying books at high school and at college, reading magazines and newspapers. And if
you choose to become a graphic designer then you study the rules of typography to make sure you don’t look like an amateur using a nasty Microsoft application
on a PC. My personal typographic osmosis happened in the UK. My design education was in the USA. I was, as they say, “conflicted”. And at the time I was not sure
enough of my ground to question Laura Golly, so I simply elected not to. Now, with the experience of 2 years in Paris and 2 months in the UK I know that there is
no right or wrong.You just have to understand where you are, and make a point of learning the local rules.
What follows are extracts from my Unofficial Guide to the Minutiae of Punctuation and Typographical Peculiarities. Enjoy reading them and please feel free to
correct me if I am mistaken on any point. Send your own Minutiae Rule or comment, either to Sara Chadwick (schadwic@suffolk.edu), or to me, Kate McLean
(mcleankate@mac.com).
Q. Where do speech marks invert their order with the first
one being baseline aligned?
A. In Germany. And it looks very weird. I went all the way
through the newspaper to make sure that it was not a printing error, and then I even bought another newspaper another
day to confirm. Somebody out there will be able to explain
the history of this.
German speech marks
Q. Everywhere in the world follows the laws of hanging
indents, don’t they?
A. Not in France they don’t! Nor in Germany, nor in Spain.
And boy does it look ugly. And the UK, well the jury is still
out depending on the quality of the designer (pretty much like
the USA really). For those of you who don’t know what I am
talking about I have redesigned the example according to the
way I was taught at NESADSU.
Q. How do I know if this is a question?
A. I look at the end of the sentence to see if there is a question mark. Except if I am reading in Spanish in which case I
look at the start of the sentence whereupon I will find an
enormous clue of an inverted question mark at the beginning
of the sentence. For example, ¿Por qué dices eso? (“Why do
you say that?”) I am a big fan; it alerts me to what I am reading. ¡And they do the same with the exclamation mark as well!
Q. What new piece of punctuation can I use legally to make
my work look different?
A. Well you can always try using the “interrobang” which is
non-standard form used to end sentences expressing surprise
and question. The symbol is a combination of the question
mark (aka the interrogative point) and the exclamation mark
(known in printers’ jargon as a bang); it superimposes one
mark on top of the other!
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was recently selected as an Artist Member
of the American Society of Marine Artists. Already a Copley Master of the Copley Society
of Boston, and a member of the New England
Watercolor Society, the
Rockport Art Association,
and The Whiskey Painters of America, he has
exhibited his work at the
Smithsonian Institute in
Washington, DC. and was the recipient of
Yankee magazine’s Robb Sagendorph Memorial Award for Art. Ralph and his wife, Muffy,
currently live in Waldoboro, Maine. If you’d
like to get in touch with Ralph, please email
the school (schadwic@suffolk.edu) and we’ll
put you in touch.
Spring 2008
Please be sure to send your updated information
to Sara Chadwick at schadwic@suffolk.edu (for
our database and/or for publication) and also, if
you wish, to classnotes@suffolk.edu for the Suffolk
Alumni Magazine.
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1962 – Dan McCarron (Graphic
Design) presented a seminar, “in case form,
to registered attendees at the Print Vendor
Fair which was held for Harvard University design and print buyers last Thursday
[November 1, 2007]. Titled ‘Green Graphics
for a Crimson Community’, the focus of the
presentation was on the manner in which
graphic designers and printing companies
can use intelligent design and print manufacturing solutions to help Harvard meet its
commitment to the environment. Harvard
is truly dedicated to a green campus! I hope
that NESAD students are learning to design
‘green’. It’s important!” You can get in touch
with Dan at dmccarron@wordtechcorp.com.
1963 – Lynne Foy (Illustration) moved
from Newton to Provincetown two years
ago, where she is showing her fine art work
at Thanassi Gallery, after nine years at the
recently closed
Galleria Artemisia. She also
does commercial
illustration and
design and is
nearly finished
with a children’s
book, which
she will begin
marketing shortly.
The advantages to Provincetown? “I live on
the ocean and enjoy glorious sunrises and
sunsets almost daily”. Take a look at Lynne’s
website at www.lynnefoy.com and get in
touch at lynne.foy@verizon.net.
1972 – William Bradbury (Graphic
Design), while still at the Lowell Sun newspaper, is now teaching a graphic design class
at Middlesex Community College. He and
his wife, Lois, also have a studio on Western
Avenue in Lowell, a 4-floor space they share
with 150 other artists, one of whom is Gary
Destramp (Graphic Design 1982). You can
reach Bill at bbrad4745@billbradbury.com.
1974 – John Roman (Graphic Design)
let us know the other day that he has been
commissioned by Suffolk to produce a new
illustrated map for the University. “As you
may know, I have been specializing in illustrated campus maps for colleges and universities
across the country for many years and am
excited to be applying my work to NESAD
and Suffolk. The new Suffolk University map
will depict the City of Boston’s attractions
and landmarks and their relationship to
Suffolk and NESAD campuses. This commission has been in the works for a few months
now, but I just got word today [January 11,
2008] that the purchase order has been
issued, making the map project official.” John’s
website (www.johnromanillustration.com)
currently shows one of his maps, though
shortly will display over sixty of them. Check
it out and contact John at john@johnromanillustration.com.
1979 – Laurie Dovale (Graphic
Design) recently completed the Alumni
Update Form on the NESADSU website,
giving us the first information we’d had on
her since her graduation. After returning
to the Caribbean, Laurie put her graphic
design skills to work in her father’s ad agency
and publishing firm for ten years, before
leaving Curacao for the neighboring island
of Bonaire. There she worked at various
jobs before starting a B&B in 1990, at her
mother’s suggestion. (“There weren’t any on
the island and all the little hotels seemed to
be making way for bigger ones.”) She ran
the B&B until 2001 and is currently working
with disabled children and helping a friend
with his dining guide (“selling ads, distribution,
copy writing, pretty much what I did for my
dad”). She’s also doing translations (Dutch/
English and the reverse) and selling antiques
left over from the B&B. “Oh, I forgot, before I
started the B&B, I worked on a movie, made
especially for Showtime, called “Curacao”,
with George C. Scott and ‘whatshisname’
before he got famous on CSI. That was some
experience. I had to find and buy/rent stuff
from all over the island for the sets. It was
just what I liked – rustic old stuff, most of
which they gave me afterwards. A 40-foot
container full….” Now Laurie is thinking of
moving, perhaps to New Mexico or Africa.
We’ll keep you posted. In the meantime, you
can reach Laurie at yuanablou@yahoo.com.
1981 – Eli Cedrone (General Art) has
exhibited her
painting “Autrefois” at the
Winter Juried
Show at the
Art Complex
Museum in
Duxbury. The
show, of 100
works selected
from over 500
entries, runs
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until April 13, 2008 at the museum complex
on Alden Street in Duxbury. Another painting of Eli’s, “Mercato”, won an Award of Excellence in the 2008 Members Show of the
North River Arts Society in Marshfield Hills
in February. You can reach Eli at artfulhand@
comcast.net.
1981 – Michele (Cormier) Biondo
(Graphic Design) stopped by several
months ago with her two daughters, one of
whom, Katie, is currently a Suffolk student but is considering a change of major.
Michele’s younger daughter, Gina, is in high
school and is looking at colleges so both
came to look at NESADSU. Michele, besides
assisting her children with college decisions,
is working as a graphic designer for Action
Unlimited in Concord, MA, so both girls are
familiar with the design world. You can reach
Michele at mmcbiondo@yahoo.com.
1983 – Carolann (DiNitto) Kovach
(Graphic Design) and her husband have
returned to the Boston area, having spent
some time in Baltimore. “Of course, I love
Boston and was very happy to be back near
family, friends and clients.” They’re now living
in Charlestown where Carolann has a busy
freelance design business, under the name
Oltre Studios, Inc. “I have a couple of steady
clients that are keeping me busy but, as
always, I’m looking to diversify and expand
my client base a bit.” You can reach Carolann
at carolann.howard@comcast.net.
1983 – Paul Harrington (General Art)
is participating in an Illuminations show at
the Yawkey Center for Outpatient Care at
Massachusetts General Hospital through May
2008. The Yawkey Center is located directly
across from the MBTA (Red Line) Charles
Street station. For more information, call
(617) 726-4808 or email illuminations@partners.org. You can also reach Paul at paulharrington@luminism.net.
1983 – Terri (Thomas) Coutu (Graphic Design) reconnected with NESADSU
after a long separation while researching
Suffolk University for her daughter, Holly,
who will graduate from high school in June
of this year. Terri, currently living in Rhode
Island with her husband and other daughter
Leah (14), is working for Stevens Publishing
as a graphic designer. “We produce a weekly
shopping guide called The Reminder, consisting of print advertisements, classified ads and
community notes… We also do business
cards, letterheads, menus, etc. I also do
freelance work, with a small but strong client
base.” Contact Terri at coutu142@cox.net.
1986 – Armando Bettencourt (Graphic Design) is giving up the corporate
design world and is getting into (or, rather,
back into) fine arts and music, with a little
design thrown in. As ABettencourt Studios
in Attleboro, he’s pursuing his “kid-dream of
incorporating fine art with my own original
music. Each of my paintings is accompanied
with an original song from CD albums I’ve
written and recorded in the past.” Check out
Armando’s website at http://home.comcast.
net/~armando1965/abettencourthome.html
and contact him at armando1965@yahoo.
com.
1989 – Mark Fisher (General Art)
recently supplied us with contact information
for classmate Jack Kacian (see below), in the
process of which updating his own information as well. Mark has taken a leave from
real estate (“another casualty of this crazy
market!”) and has gone back to City Music,
where he has worked for 9 of the past 12
years. City Music is a two-store chain that
sells “most things musical as well as a lesson
program with about 300 students”. He’s also
just finished a new CD (you can find music
downloads at myspace.com/markfishermusic). Mark, who’s been married to his wife
Nancy for 10 years, has two stepchildren.
“Our daughter has just returned from 27
months in Benin, West Africa and is now
enrolled in a Masters program at Brandeis
University. Michael is a big-time computer
geek working for the U. Mass. president’s
office on the network keeping all MA state
colleges running. I feel like an underachiever
hanging with this crowd sometimes!” You can
reach Mark at mnfisher@verizon.net.
1989 – Suzanne Fletcher (Graphic Design) is living in Livermore, CO, where she
is the marketing manager and designer, with
three others, for Scuba Schools International
(www.divessi.com) in Ft. Collins. She has a
stepson, a daughter (9) and a 6-month-old
baby to keep her busy as well. You can reach
her at thetreehousegroup@yahoo.com.
1989 – Jack Kacian (Graphic Design)
sent us a
long email
in October
about his
doings since
graduation. For
the past 12
years, Jack’s
been with
the Holbek
Group,
Inc. (www.
holbekgroup.
com), an
education exhibit design and fabrication
company in Orange, MA. While they do a
wide variety of jobs, most involve natural history, for clients such as the Audubon Society,
U.S. Fish and Wildlife, the National Parks
Service and various zoos and aquariums.
They have also worked with clients such as
Dreamworks, Jeff Corwin, Warner Brothers,
Sprint and Verizon. For the latter, they have
done concealment structures for cell phone
antennas, in the form of architectural details
(atop buildings) or what one cynic called
“Frankenpines”, designed to look like trees.
“We have developed the technology to
produce the longest branches in the industry
(18 feet), which allows us to make the trees
look like trees and not bottle brushes!” While
Jack is an art director, he occasionally gets
his hands dirty making models or painting
murals. He also does freelance work as well,
currently for the Boston Children’s Museum.
You can get in touch with Jack at jack_kacian@yahoo.com.
1992 – James Schenck (Graphic Design), whom you read about in the spring
2007 issue of “& Then…”, is continuing his
work as a Park Ranger at the Grand Canyon
and was a member of the team tapped to
design a 1400-square-foot exhibition on the
�Civilian Conservation Corps and its work in
the park for the CCC’s 75th anniversary. The
exhibit, which runs through October 31st,
includes historic photographs and artifacts,
never before viewed by the public, on the
work of the CCC and the positive changes
brought to the lives of the over 1400 men
who worked in Grand Canyon National Park
between 1933 and 1942. James was one of
five members of the design team, charged
with presenting the “golden years” of the National Park Service and the contributions of
the CCC. For more information go to www.
nps.gov/grca/historyculture/ccc.htm. You can
reach James at James_Schenck@nps.gov.
Spring 2008
Please be sure to send your updated information
to Sara Chadwick at schadwic@suffolk.edu (for
our database and/or for publication) and also, if
you wish, to classnotes@suffolk.edu for the Suffolk
Alumni Magazine.
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1995 – Carroll Conquest (Graphic Design) has just returned from a 12-day trip
to Cuba with
a group of
Tufts University graduate
students. “We
did research
in our areas
of interest for
our capstone
degree projects [Editor’s
Note: Carroll
is currently
enrolled in a Masters of Art in Teaching
program at Tufts University, in conjunction
with the School of the Museum of Fine Arts.]
My research included meeting contemporary
female artists in Cuba to discuss their art and
the role of female artists in Cuba; also art
education in Cuba with a focus on elementary school art education since that is the
focus of my MAT degree. I am currently student teaching at Angier Elementary School
in Newton and have been hired at the MFA
as an adjunct museum art educator. I am
spinning with excitement for what I learned
in Cuba and the opportunity to teach art to
elementary children in the public schools. For
Coordinator at Office Environments, a major
New England office furniture distributor. You
can reach her at donovan@oene.com.
my personal art, I am working in a new medium – steel. I learned to weld and cut steel
in one of my SFMA studio classes and now
I am hooked.” You can contact Carroll for
more about her adventures at c.conquest@
conquestdesigninc.com.
1996 – David Phile (Interior Design)
wrote to let us know that “the best Christmas present” he got this year was to find out
he’d passed the NCIDQ (National Council
for Interior Design Qualification) exam!
The exam, required for licensing (where
applicable) and for professional membership
in various interior design associations, covers
the whole field of interior design and is extremely rigorous. So congratulations, David!
Send yours to him at dphile@buildersdesign.
com.
1998 – Melissa Horvath (Graphic
Design) and fiancé Ron Plyman were married on November 9th at The Bethwood in
Totowa, NJ. Fellow NESADSU alum, Lynn
(Janz) Lloyd (Interior Design 2000) and her
family attended as guests. After a snowboarding honeymoon at Whistler/Blackcomb
Mountains Ski
Resort in British
Columbia, they
returned to
New Jersey and
are now in the
process of buying
a house. Both
Melissa and Ron
work in New York
City so “wanted to
be in a nice town
that was close to
NYC”. Melissa,
a Senior Interactive Art Director at VML, is
working on the Colgate-Palmolive account
and has just launched phase one of the redesign of a new website (www.softsoap.com).
You can send your congratulations to Melissa
and Ron at melissa@melissahorvath.com.
2001 – Angelique Donovan (Graphic
Design) has a new job as the Marketing
2001 – Sarah (Rowe) Ankrom (Graphic Design) has returned to Rhode Island,
this time to Hope Valley, where she and her
husband have bought their first house. In
addition to working on the house, she has a
new job with the Westerly (RI) Sun newspaper, doing advertising design. You can reach
Sarah at saraheankrom@yahoo.com.
2002 – Katherine Garbarino (Interior
Design) has relocated to New York City
and is working for Hokanson, the carpet firm
she was with at the Boston Design Center
before her move. You can get in touch with
Kate at kgarbs@aol.com.
2002 – Nicholas Heigelmann (Graphic
Design) has returned to Maine after a stint
in Boston, and is working at Silver Oven,
a design and web development studio, in
Portsmouth, NH. You can reach Nick at
nheigelmann@gmail.com.
2002 – Shari (Longstaff) Mason (Fine
Arts) and her family (husband Russ and
children Russell and Silas) have relocated to
Petersburg, VA, where Russ has taken a position as an assistant pastor, alongside a friend
from Zion Bible College. Shari is using her
fine arts training as a muralist in both residential and commercial settings. As she says,
“I enjoy getting out of the house to paint. I’m
hoping that, once the boys are bigger, I’ll be
able to do it more.” You can reach Shari at
shari331@gmail.com.
2002 – Patricia Ramos-Otero (Fine
Arts) has moved to Madrid and founded
an association to promote art and culture.
Called Espaciorojo (www.espaciorojo.com),
its website features, among other things, a
gallery of Patricia’s work. You can get in touch
with her at pitopato@hotmail.com.
2002 – Shelley (Robertson) Sullivan
(MA in Interior Design) has been working since graduation at Warner
& Associates, a
healthcare design
firm in Boston.
Warner was
recently bought
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out by HDR, Inc., a healthcare architecture,
design and engineering firm with offices all
over the country, making Warner now the
Boston office of HDR. While Shelley loves
her work, her “true joy” is her family, her
husband and their daughter, Cara, one year
old in January. You can contact Shelley at sullys04@norwoodlight.com.
2002 – Kodiak Starr (Graphic Design),
while still in New York, has left Foote, Cone
& Belding for a position as a web designer at
RDA International. RDAI is a “full-service advertising, interactive and experiential agency
focusing on special interest categories”
(RDAI website) in the hospitality, technology,
entertainment and fashion fields. You can
email Kody at kodiakstarr@gmail.com.
2003 – Laura Hanson (Graphic Design) has left Small Army and, for the past
year, has been working at Partners + Simons,
a design and marketing firm specializing in
the healthcare, financial services, life sciences
and technology areas. You can reach Laura at
lhan42781@yahoo.com.
2003 – Sara MacAllister (Graphic
Design) has moved to Rockland, MA and is
working for the Casual Male Retail Group in
Canton, where she’s been since September
of 2006. You can reach Sara at smaca18@
hotmail.com.
2003 – Aimee Whitlock (Interior
Design) is working as the Greater Boston
Rep for Durkan Hospitality, a Mohawk Carpet company based in Dalton, GA. As such,
she calls on local architecture and interior
design firms that work in hospitality design as
well as restaurants, casinos, universities, etc.
Recent clients have included the Boston Park
Plaza Hotel, the Lenox Hotel and Harvard
University. You can reach Aimee at aimee_
whitlock@mohawkind.com.
2004 – Erika Brown (Master of Arts in
Interior Design) has left Gensler to take
a job as a Facilities Planner at Wentworth
Institute of Technology in Boston. She has
generously offered to provide information
and networking contacts for any students
interested in facilities management, so, if you
fall into that category, please get in touch
with Riki at browne4@wit.edu.
2006 – Jin Koh (Fine Arts) has returned
to South Korea and is getting ready to make
application to graduate school in painting. You
can reach her at jinkoh80@gmail.com.
2006 – Kelly Pearson (Fine Arts) has
recently moved to New Bedford, where she
has bought “an historic sea captain’s house”.
No longer with Grand Circle Travel, she is
freelancing for such clients as PartyLite and
Thomson CompuMark. You can reach Kelly
at kmartypea@hotmail.com.
2007 – Timothy Enright (Graphic
Design) has deserted his fans at NESADSU,
leaving us with barely a smile to remember
him by (Editor’s Note: I was instructed to
make this note “light-hearted and hilarious”…a tall order) and moved back to New
Jersey. He’s now working in New York at
Match Fine Print, a 3-person print production, design and consulting firm that does
print work for luxury goods companies.
They’re currently working on the redesign of
packaging for Harry Winston, as well as projects for Moet-Hennessey, Kangol, Pentagram,
and H. Stern. “Things are going great and I
could not be happier in my position. A small
firm with great people that understand that
this field is not about being a commodity but
an art….exactly what I always talked about
@ NESAD.” And, if your clients are handing
out free samples, Tim, remember your friends
at school. You can reach Tim at enright.timothy@gmail.com.
2007 – Hanna Kim-Seda (MA in
Interior Design) has taken a job with
Zebrowski Design Group, a hospitality design
firm in Culver City, CA. Zebrowski focuses
primarily on hotels and restaurants, as well as
some private residential projects, now including the Ritz-Carlton in Half Moon Bay (near
San Francisco), a resort in Tucson and an
Intercontinental Hotel in Montreal. Contact
Hanna at hannakimseda@gmail.com.
2007 – Ciara Langley (MA in Interior
Design) has relocated to London and has
found a job as an Assistant Architect with
TTG Architects, a design, architecture, construction and management firm specializing
in retail projects. “I am learning an incredible amount and the people are fantastic.
They put a lot of faith in me and give me
great work to do. I was lucky to land the
job almost instantly. I found it via Consensus
Recruitment, which deals with architectural
job-finding. A good company to keep on
contacts lists if any other student heads toward London in search of a job!” You can get
in touch with Caira at ciara.langley@hotmail.
com. And look for her interview in this issue
of “& Then…”.
2007 – Kaitlin Palaza (Interior Design)
left Duncan Hughes Interiors and started a
new job in September at CBT/Childs, Bertman, Tseckares Architects in Boston. You can
email her at kaitlinpalaza@gmail.com.
2007 – Helen Principio (Diploma in
Interior Design), who was with the Expo
Design Center in Burlington, MA, has been
working since August at Berard Martel Architecture in Bedford, NH. Berard Martel is a
general architecture firm, handling corporate,
retail, hospitality, healthcare, institutional and
residential clients. You can reach Helen at
hprincipio@yahoo.com.
2007 – Emilie Tucker (MA in Interior
Design) has a new job with the interior
design firm Manual de Santaren in Boston.
You can get in touch with her at ejmittel@
yahoo.com.
2007 – Karen Urosevich (MA in Interior Design) has a new job at Benson
Interiors, a residential interior design firm in
Boston. You can get in touch with Karen at
karenurosevich@hotmail.com.
2007 – Daniela Wong-Chiulli (Graphic
Design) recently took part in a two-person
show, called Framing the Line, of drawings
inspired by the Japanese comic book art,
manga, at the Distillery Gallery in South Boston (www.distilleryboston.com). Manga refers to comic book art, which in turn is often
brought to film, becoming anime (Japanese
animation). “The main distinction to be made
between the art works on display and manga
is that the latter involves images that are
continuously in motion. The images drawn
by …Wong-Chiulli exist by themselves for
themselves. They are manga-like images taken
out of the context of narrative and placed
in the context of contemplation.” (Distillery
Gallery website). You can get in touch with
Daniela at sleighted@gmail.com.
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I realize that, to some extent, every piece of
information—new job, new baby, etc.—that I
receive from an alum is “feedback” of a sort and
that is, of course, one thing that drives this
magazine. But every once in a while, an alum
writes a note to someone at NESADSU that
really deserves to be read in its entirety. Such
is the case with Carl Grivakis (Graphic Design
2004) and the email he sent to Graphic
Design Program Director Laura Golly (and
her colleagues, Jennifer Fuchel and Wallace
Marosek) in January.With only the most minor
editing, here it is:
teacher in Massachusetts. I am taking the MTELs on
Jen, thank you for teaching me the ropes of the pro-
March 8th. My goal is to teach art and design at the
grams. Without the tools to work with I don’t know
high school level to better prepare students who
where I’d be. My boss still thinks my Photoshop skills
want to enter the field directly or to move on to a
need work. I agree but I am the master of Illustrator
college program. I’m excited and a little nervous, but I
and InDesign here and everyone comes to me if they
have found a love for helping people along when they
ing, but I’ve given up on coding. I have a friend handle
authored several articles on Designer Today offering
that...the design work is usually all mine. As far as the
advice ranging from portfolio development to profes-
newest technologies go, I haven’t a clue.
sional practice and spec work.
Wallace, thank you for the extraordinary time in GD
Along with all of this I have been active working with
III and IV as well as the illustration classes. Apologies
local political campaigns, trying to bring a unique design quality to each candidate so that they will stand
some of the projects. My work schedule was a little
out in the crowd of cookie cutter work produced
overbearing and I would have been better served
in many of the sign shops. I have done logo work for
taking fewer classes and devoting more time to my
Peer Servants and helped Unite for Sight as well. Fi-
portfolio in my senior year.Your lessons have always
stuck with me and I see much of the senior course
for a local anime (Japanese cartoons) convention in
work coming through in my professional life.
Students at NESADSU are taught to work together on
projects, to collaborate, pooling their talents for the best
result. Whether within a discipline or between two (say,
interior design and graphics), the sum is nearly always
better than its parts.
for never being able to put the proper time in on
nally I set some time aside to lay out program guides
“Hello Laura, Jen and Wallace,
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need technical help. As far as web design goes, I’m try-
are struggling to get into the industry. I have even
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New Hampshire.
It’s been quite some time since I’ve been around
So I just wanted to thank all of you properly. Sorry
NESADSU. I’ve been meaning to come to the senior
If you’ve read this far I’m glad. One of the thrills I
it took me four years to get to it, but I wanted to
shows the last couple years, but work has prevented
hope to have as a teacher is hearing the stories of
be able to come to you with some info. on my ac-
it. I’m happy to say I work as an in-house designer at
my students. I want to thank each one of you for
complishments. I wish the program and all of you well.
InScribe, an invitation and stationery company located
all the work you’ve done in the design program.
I will try and visit soon.
in Woburn. I’m going on my third year here…. Now
NESADSU was one of the best decisions I’ve ever
that I’m at a small place like InScribe, I find myself
made in my life.
Cheers,
wearing many hats, designing mostly print mate-
Carl”
rial, brand identities for new products and product
Laura, thank you for driving me to always do better in
samples for our merchandise.
my work. I regret having not taken the Electronic Publication Design class. I had to learn on the job how to
My work also brings me to New York once a year to
lay out a document that’s 16 to 90 pages long. Though
the National Stationery Show where I can see much
as a student I often disagreed with your critiques, I
of our product put on display at the largest both in
realized afterwards you were absolutely correct. I
the show. I’m quite content with what I am doing,
apologize for not being able to take the guidance to
but looking to the future I am considering teaching.
heart at the time.
I am currently applying for licensure as a vocational
A similar collaboration took place recently, in a small space
in Harvard Square. Stephanie Rossi (Interior Design 2001),
a practicing interior designer (www.spaziorosso.com),
whose husband, Jerome Picca, is a chef, decided in 2006 to
open a small restaurant in Cambridge, in the space previously occupied by the iconic Iruña. Starting from scratch,
and leaving the food issues to Jerome, Stephanie set about
designing the space. But what about a logo? Turning to her
former NESADSU classmate and good friend, Joel Gendron
(Graphic Design 2000), Stephanie and Jerome entrusted
this important piece of the puzzle to him. The result? A
snappy logo that says it all, to go with a small restaurant
that, as the Boston Globe says, gives you “a distinct feeling
that you are eating inside someone’s home dining room”.
The restaurant, which opened in October of last year, consists of two small rooms, seating about 50 people, and is
done in a sophisticated palette of warm tones with accents
of red and gray. (Beginning this spring, there will also be
outdoor terrace seating for about 15.)
Small Plates is a restaurant and wine bar, specializing in
tapas or appetizer-sized portions that, in some cases, can
be ordered in entrée-sized versions as well. One entrée or
two tapas makes the perfect meal and allows the diner to
try several different dishes. Everything is cooked or baked
by Jerome and his staff and is “reminiscent of a dinner
party given by someone who is cooking to please you”
(Boston Globe).
In the interests of a full confession, I should tell you that I
dined at Small Plates, with two family members, in February,
on a Tuesday evening. The restaurant was full (reservations
are a necessity!), the place looks wonderful, and the food is
fabulous. Personally, I’m not fond of restaurants that serve
plates piled high with food, half of which goes uneaten or
goes home. Small Plates is perfect for those who want, well,
a small plate, or who want to try several dishes. I had one
tapas of baby lamb chops on a bed of Israeli couscous and
vegetables, and another of puff pastry filled with lobster
and asparagus. Both were beyond delicious and very
reasonably priced. Then, the advantage of “small plates”
being obvious, there was room for dessert, a peach/ginger
bread pudding that was out of this world. A small but very
good list of available wines added just the right finish. All
in all, it was a wonderful meal in a lovely setting. That’s
my review. For the Globe’s, check out http://www.boston.
com/lifestyle/food/articles/2008/02/06/small_plates_offers_eclectic_choice_of_nibbles/ or http://www.boston.
com/ae/food/restaurants/articles/2007/12/21/entcing_tapas_in_a_refined_room/. You can also see a menu at
www.smallplatesrestaurant.com. So support your fellow
alumni! And bon appétit! S.C.§
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Pa s s ag e s
Spring 2008
Stephanie Rossi
It is with great sadness that we learned just before Christmas of the death of
Christopher Nolin (Interior Design 1995). Chris, who was living in
the Albany area, had been the operations manager and then a group sales
manager for Macy’s, before becoming the assistant manager of the Kohl’s
store in Saratoga Springs. In 2006, he started Chris Nolin Home Improvement Services, combining his retail background with his interior design
training. Chris leaves a wife, Tammy Bamford Nolin, one brother, and
numerous other relatives. A funeral was held on November 30th, 2007.
Our heartfelt sympathies go to his family and friends.
Small Plates, Cambridge
�A l u m n i Fo c u s
ALUMNI
focus
BFA Installation
BFA Installation
Ciara Langley
One thing I find fascinating about
the students in the Master of Arts
program in Interior Design at
NESADSU is the astonishing variety
of their backgrounds. Not only
do they come to us from some of
the most prestigious colleges and
universities in the U.S., but they
also represented, in the 2006-2007
school year, over a dozen foreign
countries. Ciara Langley is a good example of the best of them.
“Originally from Dublin, I traveled quite a bit from an early age
and lived in Saudi Arabia for four years during my childhood. This
instilled in me a fascination for and desire to travel and experience
other cultures. After returning to Ireland and the Irish educational system, my parents saw some talent in my love for art. They
encouraged my siblings and me to follow our passions in life and
afforded us every opportunity possible to explore various interests,
in my case art. When I was about nine, my parents enrolled me in
classes with a local artist named Fionnula O’Keefe. Classes were
very small, with only a few students, which afforded each of us
great attention and really helped me to explore a range of mediums and approaches.
“At the age of fifteen I expressed to my parents my desire to follow art as a career path. They were again incredibly supportive,
with great faith in my abilities. They explained to me the difficulties
I might confront in a professional field in which it can be very hard
to create a stable career. However they trusted me to find my own
direction in life, knowing that I understood the amount of dedication it would require.
“I began a weekend portfolio course in a DLIADT (Dun Laoghaire
Institute of Art, Design and Technology, a university in south Dublin). I was the youngest in the course as most people were eighteen
and preparing for entry into college the following academic year.
The course was incredibly challenging and really made each of us
question our ability and dedication. The professor was very critical
and demanded a huge amount of effort from us. I spent two years
doing this course, spending my final year of school taking state
exams and compiling my final portfolio for college application.
“I applied to NCAD (the National College of Art and Design, a
central Dublin university known for being the leading art institution in Ireland). Competition for places at NCAD was tough but
my application was strong enough and I was accepted on my first
application after reviews of my portfolio and Leaving Certificate (a
state exam required to get into college in Ireland).
“My time at NCAD was a difficult one. Natural talent was not
enough and the professors constantly questioned our abilities
and our dedication to the field of art. Having broken away from a
very traditional arts approach in the 1960’s the college strove to
produce work strong in concept and powerful in effect. There were
many supporting subjects that we were required to take including
history, media studies, sociology, aesthetics, etc. Our finals included
an extensive 10,000-word written thesis along with a much anticipated final degree show attended and reviewed by the Irish media.
Plaza Chair
Spring 2008
Dog Sketch
“In 2003 I graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art honors degree,
specializing in printmaking. My final degree show in NCAD was
very abstract in nature and I chose to exhibit a final selection of
lithographic prints in conjunction with a drawing installation. The
installation consisted of a large 8’ x 8’ completely enclosed room
filled with abstract drawings and visible only through small strategically placed view ports. Viewers had to maneuver around the
structure and engage with it to fully explore and receive from the
work. The drawings evolved over a period of about six weeks and
were catalogued with photographs throughout this period. These
images were created in conjunction with the set of lithographs and
together explored over three semesters the nature of underlying
forms, notions of their spatial relationships and my perceptions of
the world around me. I was using the process of drawing itself to
understand something more about myself, my philosophy of reality,
experience and an understanding of reality beyond the tangible
physical form.
“Now I began contemplating earning a Masters degree. I had enjoyed the challenge and stimulation of university life and was eager
to continue to pursue my education in some capacity. The drawings
and the work I created during this time became very architectural
in nature as I explored spatial relationships, encounters between
forms and personal experience when engaging with a structural
form. At the time my sister was finishing an architecture degree and
I found myself intrigued by the complexity of concept and detailing
in her models and drawings. Then, as I was finishing my studies at
NCAD, I was offered a job as a graphic design intern in Burlington,
Massachusetts. I was eager to travel more and had never been to
America so I jumped at the opportunity to spend time in New
England traveling and gaining work experience. I spent a couple
of summers working there, at the same time researching various
Masters programs.
“My original intention was to undertake my next degree in Europe
and carry on with the fine arts route, obtaining either a Masters
in Fine Arts or perhaps a degree in Art Therapy. Then, during one
commute to work on the subway, I saw a poster for NESADSU
and decided to see what programs they had to offer. I discovered
the MA program in Interior Design and became really excited by
the descriptions of the courses involved. I contacted NESADSU for
more information about the program requirements and was told
about an upcoming informational evening, so decided to attend.
I recall very clearly meeting Mark Brus at the event and sitting
around a table with him and other prospective students discussing
the courses and the fields of interior design and architecture. He
had a great passion for design and a dedication to the field that was
incredibly encouraging and inspiring. I owe him a great thank you
for convincing me to apply to NESADSU. So, I made my decision to
put in an application and thankfully was accepted. It was quite a big
leap of faith for me to leave Europe, my family and my life as I had
known it but the decision came very easily somehow. I felt great
excitement to be pushing my career in a new direction that still
remained rooted in my passion for the arts.
“I began my classes in the fall semester of 2004. I was immediately
excited by the possibilities and the complexity of interior architectural design. The professors were incredibly knowledgeable and
passionate about their subjects, which made for very enjoyable
educational experiences. I found a dedication to students and a
supportive network I believe was lacking in some of my previous
educational experiences. Students weren’t competing aggressively
with one another but rather actively engaging with each other,
exchanging ideas and stimulating creativity. I also began to find a
satisfaction in design that wasn’t supplied by my fine art endeavors.
I began to recognize the power of good design to infiltrate the
lives of people, affecting and inspiring in a multitude of ways, while
satisfying the creative and conceptual drives I had found in fine
art. Architectural design permitted me to express a creative voice,
then move that voice beyond the confines of the gallery and the
exhibition.
“During my time at NESADSU I continued with internships in
graphic design and interior design to support my education. While
entering my final year I heard about a graduate fellowship at
Suffolk’s Ballotti Learning Center. I approached Laureen Simonetti
[the BLC’s Educational Consultant attached to NESADSU] about
the position and was instantly excited by her enthusiasm and
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M a s t e r o f A rt s i n I n t e r i or D e s i g n 2 0 0 7
�A l u m n i Fo c u s
ALUMNI
focus
Ciara Langley
dedication to the student body. I was awarded the fellowship and
worked closely with Laureen for my final year at NESADSU. This
was an incredibly rewarding learning experience for me. Laureen
provided me with every possible support to enable me to offer the
students at NESADSU the guidance and information to help them
excel in their studies. I worked with a dedicated and inspiring team
of tutors and greatly appreciate what the students I served with
offered me in return. The work itself was very demanding and quite
stressful on top of a full course load, but was an invaluable learning
experience. We offered our students group workshops on various
computer programs, specific skill sets and techniques as well as
support in difficult classes. We also offered one-on-one regular
tutoring sessions as well as study guides, informational handouts
and study groups.
“In my final semester at NESADSU I was invited by Nacer Benkaci
to work as a teaching assistant in his Contract Design Studio class.
Working alongside Nacer proved to be another fantastic experience at NESADSU.
He was a very de“ � have become heavily involved in a major, multiI
manding professor
million pound retail development for a high profile
with high expectaclient in Cardiff, the capital ofWales.The work itself tions of his students
has become increasingly challenging but I am lucky but he taught in a
way that challenged
to have a director who puts great faith in my abilithem to produce
ties and the increasing responsibilities of my role.”
engaging, refreshing
design proposals. He
instilled in me great enthusiasm for the potential of teaching in this
field and I hope in the near future to be able to return to higher
education in a teaching capacity again.
“In the spring of 2007, I completed my Masters degree. I had spent
the best part of the past four years in Boston and had come to
love the city and make great friends and professional contacts
Spring 2008
The Houses of Parliament, London, UK
while there. As graduation approached, however, I felt the need to
address decisions about my future again and what path I wanted
to travel next. I felt that now was the time to continue with my
travels and push my career in a new direction. For some uncertain
reason London was enticing me in much the same way Boston and
NESADSU had. I woke one morning and just made the decision to
move to a wild and exciting city, filled with outstanding design firms
and unlimited potential.
“So, after graduation I returned to Europe, spending most of
the summer traveling around the continent and finally settling in
London in August. I found a fantastic apartment in Waterloo, a
very central area in the south of the city. It allows me to walk to
almost anywhere in central London in about thirty minutes and
the apartment itself is quirky and filled with great character. Within
two weeks I had sent out numerous applications and was offered a
job on my first interview with a firm called TTG Architects. They
sounded excited about my application and I was very attracted to
their genuine desire to provide me with a challenging and exciting
opportunity with the firm.
“I have now been working at TTG for seven months and with each
month that goes by I feel greater excitement and enthusiasm about
going to work. I have become heavily involved in a major, multi-million pound retail development for a high profile client in Cardiff, the
capital of Wales. The work itself has become increasingly challenging
but I am lucky to have a director who puts great faith in my abilities
and the increasing responsibilities of my role. My position is technically “assistant architect” rather than interior designer, but it is
giving me great experience in areas like construction and detailing
and I feel my knowledge base continue to explode after the strong
foundations provided by my education at NESADSU.”
With our thanks to Ciara for sharing her experiences – and our
best wishes for a bright future. S.C§.
The River Thames, London, UK
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G a l l e ry S c h e du l e
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schedule
Student Exhibitions 2008
Summer Exhibitions 2008
Work by current students of The New
England School of Art & Design at Suffolk
University
NESADSU White Box Gallery (Studio 208):
NESADSU Fine Arts Alum Critique Group
Foundation
March 24th to April 4th
Reception: Friday, March 28th 5-7pm
Graphic Design (Undergraduate)
April 7th to April 18th
Reception: Friday, April 11th 5-7pm
Fine Arts
April 22nd to May 2nd
Reception: Friday, April 25th 5-7pm
Interior Design (Graduate and
Undergraduate)
May 5th to May 19th
Reception: Friday, May 9th 5-7pm
exhibition
Organized by Mish McIntyre and Jessie
Schloss
May 12th to June 27th
Reception: Friday, May 16th 5-7pm
Main Gallery:
Prints and Related Drawings: Fine Arts
Faculty Print Portfolio
Organized by Assistant Professor Randal
Thurston
May 27th to July 12th
Reception: Friday, June 27th 6-8pm
July exhibition:TBA
Fall Exhibitions 2008
Graphic Design Graduate Student Exhibition
September 2nd to September 13th
Reception: Friday, September 5th 6-8pm
String Theories
September 18th to October 25th
Reception: Thursday, September 18th 6-8pm
Pop Life
October 30th to November 30th
Reception: TBA
Please call (617) 573-8785 to confirm dates and times of
exhibitions and opening receptions.
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& Then
NESADSU Alumni Newsletter
Spring 2007
Issue # 12
NESADSU Graphic Design Students:
Learning to Make a Difference
What can we do?
Here we all are in Boston leading privileged lives,
when so many across the globe live in such desperate circumstances. What can you, as art students, do
to influence the lives, for example, of the world’s 40
million HIV-positive people? It seems like an impossible task; however, any small step you can take is
worth the effort.
Since the spring of 2004, the students in Graphic
…a desire to have simple, impactful visuals that could
be used to solicit discussion among health care clinicians.
The issue? How can pre-natal clinicians engage men in
caring for their children?
Design II (ADG S207) have been assigned projects
dealing with sustainability, both environmental and
social. One project addressed
the design of posters directed to
partners of HIV-positive pregnant
women in Namibia. This project
was inspired by the work of a dear
friend, Mary Jo O’Hara, who is an
international AIDS educator. Her
work takes her to India, China
and sub-Saharan Africa, where 29
million of the world’s 40 million
HIV-positive people reside. She had
expressed to me a desire to have
simple, impactful visuals that could
be used to solicit discussion among
health care clinicians. The issue?
How can pre-natal clinicians engage
men in caring for their children?
After intense research, my students,
in teams of two, produced posters based on their own concept
Poster design by Kayla Hicks
conclusions. PDF files of their work
were sent to Mary Jo in Namibia, where she is
working on a draft curriculum for nurses implementing programs to reduce HIV transmission to
infants born to women with HIV. An important challenge for health care workers has been erasing the
stigma of implementing HIV testing during pregnanEditor’s Note . . . . . . . . 2
cy, as women are often perceived by the community
Make a Difference (cont.) 3
as being responsible for the ongoing epidemic since
News & Tidbits . . . . . . . . 4
they are the ones getting tested.
Zorking in q Foreign
Lqnguqge . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Mary Jo shared the students’ work with colleagues
Life Lessons in
who viewed and evaluated the images sent.
Advertising . . . . . . . . . . 8
Inside
Tim Enright’s and Gregory Mills’ poster image was
enthusiastically received by her Namibian colleagues
as was a design done a year earlier by Kayla Hicks.
Because the images portrayed men as being strong,
powerful and engaged in family decision-making, it
offered a different approach to the fear and recrimiPoster design by Tim Enright and Gregory Mills
continued on page 3
Class Notes . . . . . . . . . 10
Alumni Interview . . . . 14
Faculty Interview . . . . 18
Gallery Schedule . . . . 20
�E d i t or ’ s N ot e
After two-and-a-half years of designing the NESADSU alumni magazine (I
refuse to call it a “newsletter” anymore;
it’s become much more than that!), Kate
McLean (Graphic Design 2004) is contributing this time in a second way. Kate
is, as some of you know, many things besides an extraordinarily talented graphic
designer. She is English, a perpetual traveler, a photographer,
a snowboarder, a keen observer of the world and everyone and
everything in it, a foodie and wine connoisseur, and one of the
most inquisitive, open-to-experiences-of-all-kinds people it has
ever been my pleasure to know. She is also married, to Mick, and
that has taken her to Paris, where the two of them are comfortably ensconced in a balconied (the better to observe the city)
apartment on rue Gounod in the 17th arrondissement.
Not content to spend her days exploring a city most of us would
love the chance to see full-time, Kate has established herself as a
practicing professional graphic designer in a new city and in a
(fairly) new language, with all the attendant pleasures and pitfalls.With some months of work behind her, she thought it might
be interesting to write about her experiences for “…And Then”. A
very quick “Go right ahead” from me and she was off on the first
of a planned three articles for this and our next two issues. So,
for spring 2007, we bring you “Working in a Foreign Language”,
to be followed in the fall by “Cultural Differences” and, next
spring, “KnowYour Country’s Typography”. All I’ll say at this moment is that it’s a whole different ballgame. Read and enjoy.
Sara
Lost Alumni
Does anyone know where I can find these NESADSU alumni? They’re
no longer at the addresses I had for them and I haven’t been able to
trace them. If you know, please email me at schadwic@suffolk.edu.
Many thanks, detectives!
Sara
Christine Jellow
Anne Noble
Jean Kuntz
Jessica Huang
Ricardo Gonzalez
Josephine Place
Bethia Haider
Darren Breault
Dan Meuleman
Sun Sun Ye
Lucy Beltran
Shawn Mullen
Interior Design
Interior Design
Graphic Design
Fine Arts
Fine Arts
Interior Design (MA)
Graphic Design
Graphic Design
Graphic Design
Fine Arts
Graphic Design
Interior Design
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Spring 2007
A l u m n i N e w s l e t t e r, S p r i n g 2 0 0 7 I s s u e # 1 2
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EDITOR:
Please send your photographs and news for inclusion
in the next issue. Send all photographs, slides, or digital
files, with an accompanying caption that identifies who
is in the picture and when and where it was taken. All
photographs, slides and digital files should be 300 dpi at
5”x7” (1500 x 2100 pixels, total filesize four megabytes
approximately), a high-resolution JPEG taken with at least
a three-megapixel camera.
Sara Chadwick
design concept & DESIGN:
CONTRIBUTING designer:
special thanks:
printing:
Kate McLean
Rita Daly
Mish McIntyre
Reynolds DeWalt, New Bedford, MA
web site: www.suffolk.edu/nesad
Send updated contact information, questions or requests to Sara Chadwick at
schadwic@suffolk.edu or call (617) 994-4294 or use the new online form on the
Alumni page of the website.
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SPECIAL
feature
continued
NESADSU Graphic Design Students:
Learning to Make A Difference
continued from page 1
nation that are often seen in HIV prevention messages. The image,
used as a “trigger” to generate discussion among healthcare providers, aims to find strategies to educate men as to the important role
they can play in their babies’ health, and to raise awareness among
them regarding HIV transmission to their partners and children.
The image was included in the draft curriculum being used to train
nurses and midwives providing care to pregnant women throughout Namibia. After success there, the image was then added to the
draft curriculum, regarding prevention of mother-to-child transmission, in the 56 nursing schools in Tanzania. Because student nurses,
men and women both, are at risk for HIV, the image can be used
for discussion within personal relationships, within the classroom,
and within the community.
A success story? Yes. We as graphic designers have at our disposal
a powerful means of communication. We need to realize our gift
and use it to improve life as often as we can.
Namibian children (featured above and below) will benefit from the
knowledge passed on by the AIDS awareness program..
Rita Daly §
Many thanks to Mary Jo O’Hara for
access to her photo archives.
A typical Namiibian village hut.
Mary Jo O’Hara (second from left) with the
nursing team in Namibia
Enormous sand dunes are one part of the varied landscape.
�NEWS & TIDBITS
NEWS tidbits
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A N e w O p p ort u n i t y f or
NESA/D/SU Alums
View from the Downtown Harvard Club of Boston
As alums of Suffolk University – and this
includes grads of NESA and NESAD as well
– you are all invited to become members
with full privileges at the Downtown
Harvard Club of Boston. Located on the
38th floor of One Federal Street in Boston,
the club provides sweeping views of the
city (and the Suffolk campus), as well as
à la carte dining Monday through Friday
for breakfast, lunch and dinner. In addition,
members can host or sponsor private
functions or meetings and attend special
member events. Membership in the Downtown Harvard Club also includes reciprocal
privileges at over 130 national and international private clubs. Join alumni of Harvard,
Babson, Bentley, Cornell, Dartmouth and
Holy Cross and find out what the Club has
to offer you. For information, visit www.
harvardclub.com and click on “Become a
Member”. Then just follow the instructions
for applying. And check the Suffolk website
(www.suffolk.edu) for information on Suffolk events being held at the Club.
S.C. §
A n A f t e r noon O f Tu s c a n S u n s h i n e I n Th e
M i d d l e O f A N e w E n g l a n d Wi n t e r
Noted author Frances Mayes, whose book Under the Tuscan Sun was an international best seller, spoke to Suffolk students, faculty and administrators on the
afternoon of Thursday, February 1st, as part of Suffolk’s Centennial celebration.
Through her words, Frances transported her audience to Tuscany, making them
feel the sun’s mid-summer warmth and the breezes flowing through the swaying
cypress trees, fluttering bowers of jasmine, and bobbing heads of roses found in
her gardens at Bramasole in Cortona, Italy.
Suffolk, specifically NESADSU, has begun a wonderful relationship with Ms. Mayes.
Last year, the students in Wallace Marosek’s 6-week Italian Journal program enjoyed a day of painting throughout Frances’ gardens. The students captured with
watercolor the beauty that she has so deftly and poetically described with words.
Spring 2007
Catherine Headen (left) with noted author Frances Mayes (right)
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Pictured (at left) is Frances Mayes with Catherine Headen, who presented the
author with an original watercolor of Bramasole. Catherine is a graduate student
in the MA program in Graphic Design who happily spent last summer in Italy
along with 10 other students watercoloring a journal of her travels as part of
the Italian Journal program. Italian Journal is offered each summer through the
Graphic Design program at NESADSU to all University undergraduate and
graduate students. For more information, contact Wallace Marosek at
wmarosek@suffolk.edu.
Wallace Marosek §
�NESADSU Undergoes
R e ac c r e d i tat i on P ro c e s s
Shortly after the merger with Suffolk University in 1996, NESADSU
applied for and was granted accreditation by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD). NASAD is composed of
“schools and individuals representing the highest traditions and aims
in the education of the artist and designer….NASAD is the only accrediting agency covering the whole field of art and design recognized
by the U.S. Department of Education.” (NASAD Handbook).
Accreditation must be renewed on a regular basis and ours came due
during the 2006-2007 academic year. The renewal process involves
submission of a self-study, describing and assessing everything the
school does, in terms of its mission and goals, the faculty and administration, programs and curricula, finances, facilities and equipment, the
library, recruitment, admissions, record-keeping and advising, published
materials, and much more. The self-study, written over the course of a
year by Sara Chadwick, ran to 338 pages, not including faculty resumes
and other appendices. Submitted to NASAD in January, the self-study
was then reviewed by a two-member team of art and design school
educators, who were then to visit the school to see whether all we
had said was true.
The visiting team of Alan Barkley, Dean of the Lyme Academy College
of Fine Arts (CT) and Anedith Nash, Provost of Columbus College
of Art and Design, arrived on Sunday, March 25th and were here until
Wednesday the 28th. They met with NESADSU Chairman Bill Davis
and Sara, with the Suffolk Provost, Patricia Meservey, and the Dean
of the College of Arts and Sciences, Ken Greenberg, as well as with
undergraduate and graduate students, faculty members, program directors, alumni, and numerous members of the art school administration. The team also reviewed a comprehensive display of student work,
covering nearly every available wall in the school. The visit ended with
an exit interview on Wednesday morning.
While the decision to renew or deny reaccreditation will not be made
until October, at the NASAD annual meeting in St. Louis, we were left
with the impression that we had demonstrated to the team’s satisfaction that NESADSU is worthy of continuing recognition by NASAD, as
a demonstrated leader in the field of arts education.
The reaccreditation process is long and exhausting and could never
have been completed without the help of the entire NESADSU community. As the “driver”, I’d like to extend heartfelt thanks to all who
participated. I’m very grateful.
S.C. §
“ ew England’s
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Finest”
While our pride in all our graduates’ accomplishments is evident, we wouldn’t want to be
accused of exaggeration, so “New England’s
Finest” isn’t necessarily a phrase we’d toss
around freely. However, Yankee magazine
thought it appropriate to describe the work of
Paul and Lianne (Cortese) Stoddard (Graphic
Design 1992) in just that
way. The December 2006
issue of the magazine highlighted several holiday items
produced by New England
designers, among them Paul
and Lianne’s tree ornaments that sell under the
name “Swirly Designs”. The
painted polymer clay ornaments (for seasons other
than Christmas as well) sell
for between $17.00 and
Samples from “Swirly Designs” lauded by $24.50 and are worth every
Yankee Magazine
penny, as you can see. Their
line of ornaments “presents
a playful, contemporary
take on snowmen, Santas,
stars and so on…..and each
ornament has 3-D details
– such as a bell that actually
rings, ribbon, sparklers, and
danglers – that capture
the magic of the season”
(Yankee). Check out their
webpage at www.swirlydesigns.com. What the article
doesn’t describe, however,
is how Paul, an illustrator, and Lianne, now in
the Publications Department at the Museum of
Science, can work full-time, raise son Gryffin,
now nearly two, and still have time for their
rapidly-growing ornament business. Sleep must
be a luxury.
S.C. §
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&
NEWS & TIDBITS
We Love A Parade
Lori in her Imperial Officer’s uniform (with two friends from Detroit)
Careful readers of this magazine may remember that Lori Sartre (Graphic
Design 1992) is a fan of the Star Wars movie series. An obsessed fan? We’ll
leave that to you to decide. But, in any case, she has an abiding love for the
movies and more knowledge about Star Wars minutiae than anyone I can
imagine. So it shouldn’t have come as any surprise when, last December, I
received an email from Lori saying that she had been selected, from the millions of fans all over the world, to march in costume in the 2007 Tournament
of Roses Parade in tribute to George Lucas.
Apparently Lucasfilm had sent out word that they wanted to see videos
from various 501st clubs (that’s the Stormtrooper Legion) marching. A video
audition, so to speak. So Lori and her group submitted one and 8 of their 25
members were chosen to march in the parade. It turns out, though, that they
had something more in mind for Lori.
Fine Arts
Students Score!
Students from NESAD’S Fine Arts program
have recently been included in several prestigious juried exhibitions.
Christina Watka and Kaitlyn Sullivan participated in the 18th annual Student Exhibition
at Boston’s Copley Society, a competition
open to students in all Boston area schools.
Christina’s work was awarded the Johnson
Paint Creativity Award.
Kaitlyn and Clara Wolverton were included
in the BFA/BA exhibition at the University
of South Florida. The juror was Dave Hickey,
noted author and critic.
Spring 2007
Juan Berrios, Bonnie Birge, Imonga WellsWingfield, Sam Spano, Shawnna Lyons, and
Silvi Naci exhibited their work in the Arches
student show, part of the 60th Annual Boston
Printmakers North American Biennial.
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Additionally, Kaitlyn, Kimthy Nguyen, Christina
Watka, Jazmin Brown, Alison Balcanoff, Mike
Farley, Rachel Rickert, Mitsu Toda, and Richard
Schum have installed their work in Suffolk’s
new Sawyer Library at 73 Tremont St. where it
will be on view for the next year.
Randal Thurston§
Not having been chosen with that group, Lori sent a note to a friend at
Lucasfilm, offering her services in a different capacity, any capacity. After all,
she had all the experience in the world: Drill Captain, member of the 501st
for 5 years, Trooper of the Month in February 2006, coordinator of costumed
characters for 30+ events at the Boston Museum of Science, and participant
in two Star Wars Weekend parades at Disney’s MGM Studios Park. She even
volunteered to stick flower petals on the Star Wars float if that would get her
to Pasadena!
Then, suddenly, an email from Lucasfilm offered her the chance to be part of
the Elite Squad, a dozen members who would help with anything that could
make the parade, or at least the Star Wars part of it, work.
So Lori flew to Pasadena, with Lucasfilm paying her airfare and hotel accommodations, to be a bus monitor, a make-up artist, and a pants hemmer,
anything to support the marchers. She made sure everyone was where they
were supposed to be, she painted, head-to-toe, alien women, starting at 2 in
the morning, and she hemmed the pant legs of 175 Grambling State University marching band members. Who says show business isn’t glamorous? But,
more than that, she was one of a dozen Imperial Officers who made sure the
Star Wars portion of the parade went off without a hitch.
More than 350 costumed characters, including Stormtroopers, Imperial Officers, Ewoks and Darth Vader entertained the nearly one million people who
lined the parade route, and the millions more who watched on television.
George Lucas, who was the parade’s Grand Marshall, sat in the stands until
his Star Wars battalions passed by, then rode in a car for the remainder of
the parade.
Adding to her trove of Star Wars–related memories, Lori, who had met Lucas
at the Museum of Science some months before, distinctly heard him say
“Lookin’ good, Lori” as she passed by during one dress rehearsal. Needless to
say, that was the icing on the cake.
S.C. §
�Ov e r s e a s c or r e s p on d e n t
OVERSEAS
correspondent
Zorking in q Foreign Lqnguqge
Kate McLean, whom you all know as the designer of this magazine,
graduated from NESADSU in 2004 and, in 2006, she relocated to
Paris. After establishing herself there as a graphic designer, Kate has a
unique perspective on the joys and pitfalls of the trans-cultural work
experience. So, if you think you might like to try designing somewhere
other than in the US, read on.
My first day at Jean-Louis’ “boîte”, as every office or studio is
known as in Paris, was the first of many learning opportunities in
working in a foreign language. The first question was about coffee;
did I want it long or short? Long is about one fiftieth the size of
your average Starbucks coffee and short is half the size of a long. I
requested a “long”. The next question concerned which language
we would speak—we started in French, moved to English, and
continued in Franglais (an ungrammatical combination of French
and English). I realized that my French was not fully up to par for
work as a designer in France and swiftly signed up for a semester of
intensive classes at the Sorbonne.
My semester at the Sorbonne passed. I studied the rules of French
grammar and the exceptions to the rules of French grammar (there
are many more exceptions than rules) and simultaneously negotiated the tax office and the “Maison des Artistes”. In order to work
legally I had to complete whole dossiers of bureaucratic forms.
The second time I went to Jean-Louis’ “boîte” I was ready
to work. On his desk I spotted a brief from a famous
historical site in the south of France, called the Pont du
Gard. I asked if I could come up with some ideas and
in return he asked how much it would cost him.
This project was in the form
of a bid, or a competition
(locally known as a “spéculatif)—where you work for
no fee. If the client selects
your work, you are awarded
the contract and are paid for
the remainder of the work
involved. Jean-Louis paid
me, but we did not get
the contract.
I then started
working on
my own
freelance
Aaaah bon –Illustrator menus in French
The French keyboard–not QWERTY but AZERTY
projects at the boîte.There is a spare computer in the eaves with
CS2 and Quark, which is now known as Kate’s computer. I sat down,
opened Illustrator and freaked.You see what I mean? Some of the
menus are obvious, others rely on an instinctive knowledge of where
the option is located in relation to the others, and the keyboard
shortcuts thankfully keep their American keystrokes, so if you get
stuck figuring out what “associer” means, you see the shortcut “apple” (called “pomme” here) and “G” and obviously it is the command
to group a set of objects. My vocabulary for strange, design-specific
words has thus expanded enormously. However, using these words in
everyday conversation tends to result in people rolling about laughing.
The following paragraph is touch-typed on a French AZERTY keyboard:
Qnd qs for the keyboqrd; let ,e introduce you to the %QWERTY%
keyboqrd: Of course you hqve qll those chqrqcters qccents to deql
with first; so the nu,ber keys are forced into second plqce qs qccented vozels tqke pride of plqce on the 2nd roz 9under the function keys0: Since there are not enough qccents to fill the roz, some
s,qrt cookie qdded in speciql sy,bols used in French typogrqphy
that qre not used qnyzhere else. To type a nu,ber you have to hold
down the shift key to get &; é; “; ‘; (; §; è; !; ç qnd à: The “Q” qnd “A”
keys qre inverted qs qre the “Z” qnd “W”, the “,” is sepqrqted fro,
“N” it ,oves up & line and lives next door to “L” qnd zorse still to
hit the period key; you hqve to hold down shift!! This ,qkes typing
zeb qddresses qnd e)mqil qddresses with the 2 sign exceptionqlly
pqinful.
I know you are clever enough to figure out what it says.
My client-list currently comprises several multi-lingual small businesses. Thankfully the business language is English as I am still
happiest discussing design concepts in my native language. When
I first studied Graphic Design at NESADSU (having moved from
England) Laura Golly liked my accent but “couldn’t understand a
word I said”. In France equally, everyone appreciates my efforts and
loves my accent but cannot always understand what I am trying to
say. Plus ça change, plus c’est la meme
chose!
Kate McLean §
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Life Lessons In Advertising
On Tuesday, February 21st, I had a call from a 1970 NESA alumnus by the name of Rob Lopes. Rob, who lives in Connecticut and produces television
commercials in NewYork, was planning to be in Boston the next day, on a round of college visits with his son, Giancarlo, and wanted to know if he could
stop by NESADSU and see how things had changed in the intervening 37 years. Of course I said yes, as I always like to see alumni I’ve not met before.
We had a wonderful chat and I gave them a tour of our facilities, which I think was an eye-opener to Rob, to say the least.The next day I received the
following email, which I’d like to share with our current students and recent alums alike:
Dear Sara,
Can’t express how wonderful the tour was—immensely nostalgic.
Giancarlo, as well, was very impressed and now happily wants to include
Suffolk in his list.
I [wanted to pass along my resume] from my fifteen years (1970-1985) as an
art director before [I became] a commercial film director. Here it is. With
hopes it won’t bore you to tears and might serve as some encouragement to
your students.
1970: Photo-Lettering (spacing type). My very first job out of
NESA.
Lesson # 1: Even if your first job is not optimum, in most cases
take it anyway/get working.You¹ll make contacts, get a pay check
and use it as a base to move on. It¹s always easier to get a job if
you already have one. Employers need permission to believe.Your
former employer tacitly gives that permission. Quit to join...
1970: Lois Weiss Advertising (mechanical man in the bullpen). Was laid off when they lost their biggest account, Cunard Lines.
Lesson # 2: Don’t let setbacks bring you down - they’re inevitable.
Wasn’t it Nietzsche who said, “What doesn’t kill you will make you
stronger”?
1971: Alexander and Associates (mechanical man/bullpen,
some designing). This was a tiny, rinky-dink ad house in Brooklyn.
Huntley, Schmidt. After about six months Allen Beaver made me his
assistant and after a year I became a full-fledged art director. In the
early and middle 70’s, the five most creative shops in New York were Ally,
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May of 1971-1975: Marvin and Jesse Levine (mechanical
man/bullpen, some designing). This was a smallish, agency with
primarily fashion accounts in Manhattan. It was there that my career
really took off. The future Advertising Hall of Fame team of Allen Beaver
(advertising) and Larry Plapler (writer) were hired as creative directors
and under their considerable talent transformed this smallish fashion
house into a medium-sized, all-around agency. It was renamed Levine,
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Lesson # 3: From bad comes good. Even if the place is horrible,
and this one was, there’s always something good coming out of it. I
met my best friend of 36 years there. Quit to join...
Gargano; Doyle, Dane, Bernbach; Scali, McCabe, Sloves; Della Femina; and
Levine, Huntley, Schmidt. Levine was by far the smallest and yet it, pound
for pound, would win more Andy and One Show awards than any of the
rest. In those years I won many awards and, at the end of my stay, I was
made a senior AD.
Lesson # 4: When a good opportunity comes, be open and savvy
enough to recognize it. Milk it for all it’s worth. If you¹re lucky
enough to land in a phenomenal creative shop that’s the equivalent
of, say, Microsoft in the tech world, and if they recognize your talent, reward you with promotions and raises on a timely basis, then
don¹t be stupid - stay. However, keep in the back of your mind such
places and opportunities are far and few between. Quit to join...
1975: Kurtz and Simon. Ostensibly came to get more TV commercial
work as opposed to just print.
Lesson # 5: Don’t be afraid to move on when it¹s obvious a place
is going to be limiting. Don’t feel you have to stay in any one place
forever, even if it was your creative womb. Moveon.com is generally
a good philosophy—doing so broadens your contact base. At least
in my day, the creative world was not like the corporate world
where you get points for longevity. Creative directors loved to hire
young hot shots who they knew were in demand elsewhere. Quit
to join...
1975: Burson-Marstellar Advertising. Came here with the idea of
getting more TV. I won’t say I was laid off. I was out and out fired, largely
because I didn’t care for Marstellar’s level of creativity and was naïve
enough to say so openly.
Lesson # 6: Learn to curb your tongue and bide your time. If a
place is beneath your creative standards, make your ultimate comment by quitting to join a better place. Never bitch from inside.
Remember: most ad agencies, design firms, etc. [tell] themselves
that their creative environment is just tip-top. And again resurrecting lesson # 3—from bad comes good. This firing turned out to be
a great turning point.
1976: Wells, Rich, Greene. After a great summer off, I was hired at
WRG to work in the late, great Bob Wilvers’ group (another Hall of Fame
inductee and even more legendary a personage than my two earlier
mentors). This man taught me that a television commercial need not
�All photos from Rob Lopes’ personal archives.
be a still-life. At that time the great majority of AD’s clung to their print
background and were either too afraid or too unschooled to move the
camera. Film should move.
Lesson # 7: Always seek out mentors who can elevate you, challenge you. Although Wilvers was tough as nails, he brought me up
to another level. Without his influence, I probably wouldn’t have
become in later years a director. Bob became not only a great
mentor but a great friend all the way up to his untimely death.
Adjunct to Lesson # 7: Don’t smoke (he was a chain smoker). Quit
to join...
1976: Ally, Gargano. There I met and I worked with the late, great
Pat Kelly (Advertising Hall of Fame-- considered one the ten greatest
writers in advertising history. He came up with the famous and much
copied Federal Express commercials of the 70’s and 80’s.). Pat also
became a dear friend. And it was he who encouraged me to follow in his
footsteps and leave the agency side to become a commercial film director as he had done.
Lesson # 8: Even if you’re hired into the holy of holies, as Ally was
considered in those days, you have to take a very critical look at
the political and structural landscape of any place you join. It was
clear that the creative director (AD) was hogging all the choice
work and it would have taken me years to get around that. People
thought I was crazy to quit an agency that hundreds of AD’s would
have killed their twin to get into. But it was the right move. Milton’s
Lucifer was right, at least in our industry...” Better to rule in hell
then serve in heaven.” Quit to go back to...
1977-1979: Wells Rich, Greene. Back again for more TV. Then
around 1980, I quit to follow a dream. One which, sadly for me, I’ve yet to
accomplish; i.e. write and direct original screenplays. People thought I had
taken leave of my senses to leave Wells, in that I just bought a house.
Lesson # 9: There comes a time in your life when, even if it’s
financial lunacy, you have to chase the muse. If you don’t she’ll turn
on you and devour your spiritual guts.
1980 - 1983: Wrote screenplays (never sold any) and, in
between, took freelance jobs to pay the bills.
1984: Wells, Rich, Greene. When Wells asked me to come back for
the third time to be a VP/ Group Head I drove a hard bargain. Following
Pat Kelly’s advice (he had already made a successful transition from celebrated writer to director), I asked to do the same; i.e. to direct any and
all commercials and campaigns I came up with. Amazingly they went for
it. Over the next eighteen months, I built a reel of ten spots, most notably
the HEFTY-WIMPY campaign for Hefty Garbage Bags.
Lesson # 10: When the time is right, don’t be afraid to ask for
the juice. All they can say is no. If you want to build a following of
believers, the first person you must start with is yourself. P.S. At the
time the prevailing wisdom coming from the big time sales reps and
executive producers that I polled was that I was insane to leave
my post as an established AD to become a fledgling director. They
told me that, “the pond was glutted”; said “I’d be eaten by all the big
fish”. They were right about the pond being glutted but what they
failed to mention was that was only true at the bottom and middle.
At the very top there’s plenty of swimming room!
1985: Started Pfeifer-Lopes Pictures. In the year that I left Wells
to form my company with my partner Chuck Pfeifer, I was named the
East Coast Director of the Year by Ad Week Magazine.
Lesson # 11: Don’t always listen to the prevailing wisdom.
1992:The Lopes Picture Company. After seven years with my
partner Pfeifer we decided to part company and the outfit was renamed.
Over the years we’ve had close to twenty directors shoot through our
company; however never more than five at a time and usually averaging about three at any given time. As a side note my dear old friend Pat
Kelly also shot through us until his sad and untimely death. In total we¹ve
been shooting commercials for the past eighteen years. During that time
I¹ve garnered many an award, including an Emmy for HBO featuring the
world champion boxer George Foreman. At this point I¹m probably being
redundant since some of these notes should be covered in the website,
but I’ve shot Henry Kissinger, Jesse Jackson, and Rush Limbaugh for the
New York Times, Michael Jordan for Hanes, supermodels like Rachael
Hunter to Saturday Night Live comics like Dana Carvey and Jon Lovitz
for American Express. After 37 years in the business, my career is starting
to wind down, happily. Now I can spend time with my kids. But It’s been
a terrific ride and it’s largely due to my fabulous and state-wide honored
high school art teacher, Pauline Hopkins, and the wonderfully nurturing
environment of NESA. Back in 1967 I couldn’t have either academically or financially gotten into RISD, the Art Institute of Chicago, Pratt, the
Museum School in Boston or any of the top LA schools. But if I had a five
spot for every time, over these past thirty-seven years, that… grads from
those schools have had to run around and fetch me a decaf latte, I could
take this year’s NESAD graduating class out to a banquet at the best
restaurant in Boston.
Lesson # 12: NESAD will give you all the tools you need to kick
ass and take names out there in the commercial art world. Don¹t
let anyone tell you differently.
Hope this proves of some help and encouragement to the kids. If not, I
apologize for the long windedness of it all.
Best Regards, Rob Lopes
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1969 – Coral (Moon) Lewis (Advertising Design) recently contacted the school
with an update on her life since NESA. After
graduation, she worked for seven years as a
graphic designer for The Arizona Bank, before
moving to State Farm Insurance, where she
was communications coordinator, designer,
editor and photographer for 26 years. Having
taken early retirement, she is now a fine
artist. Coral and husband John live outside
Phoenix, AZ where she can be reached at
clewis06@cox.net.
1972 – Ed Mitchell (Graphic Design)
has recently changed jobs, moving from
Quinn Printing to Pond-Ekberg. It’s a business
Ed knows well, so, if you have printing needs,
get in touch at 1mitch@comcast.net.
1980 – Christine (Lahiff) Slatas (Interior Design) is currently working in international admissions at Bentley College, while
doing freelance design work on the side.
Chris’ daughter has just applied to Suffolk,
where she hopes to study communications
while taking art classes on the side. You can
reach Chris at cslatas@bentley.edu.
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Please be sure to send your updated information
to Sara Chadwick at schadwic@suffolk.edu (for
our database and/or for publication) and also, if
you wish, to classnotes@suffolk.edu for the Suffolk
Alumni Magazine.
1980 – Nancy Mouat (Graphic Design)
has moved to Monterey, CA, after some
years in Santa Barbara, where she and two
partners are co-owners of the East Village
Coffee Lounge. (You can Google her to read
the shop’s reviews.) Nancy’s been in the
restaurant business for a number of years,
up and down the California coast, but loves
Monterey, where she lives just above the
Monterey Bay Aquarium. (Editor’s note: I
visited the aquarium two years ago for the
first time. It’s an amazing place and absolutely
worth the trip if you’re in the neighborhood.) Email Nancy at nlynm@hotmail.com.
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1980 – Karen Neskey (Graphic Design) has given up Texas (“land of the big
hair”) to return to New England, specifi-
cally Marlborough, MA. She’s a Senior Art
Director for the TJX Companies, owners of
TJMaxx, Marshalls, Home Goods, and other
great places to shop. Karen and Nancy
Mouat (see above) are planning an Eastern
reunion sometime in 2007, having stayed in
touch since graduation. You can reach Karen
at karen_neskey@yahoo.com.
1982 – Nancy (Khoury) Flosdorf
(Fashion Illustration) recently got in
touch with us to update us on her activities
since graduation. After 25 or so years as a
graphic designer, she stopped working when
she decided she was missing out on watching
her son, now 8, grow up. Now she’s working
part-time and trying to motivate herself to
get back into drawing and painting. Though
she misses the graphic design field, the
thought of becoming comfortable with the
computer is daunting, so, for the time being,
she’ll stay with non-design work. You can
reach Nancy at gfloz@comcast.net.
1982 – James Kraus (Graphic Design)
and Art Guy Studios had a great 2006. Jim
launched a new website (www.artguy.com)
and continued to do a weekly Boston Globe
piece (examples of which are added to
the website on a regular basis). In addition,
he was asked to provide artwork for the
premier issue of Harvard’s new magazine,
02138, “designed by the folks at Pluto Media,
owned and run by Patrick Mitchell, the original designer of Fast Company magazine”).
In addition, James does a weekly radio show
called “In With the Old” on WZBC 90.3 FM.
“If you love independent and alternative
music with a nod to the past, check it out.”
You can also stream the freshest show and
the past two weeks’ worth by checking out
http://www.artguy.com/radio/index.html. In
March he also appeared on Boston cable’s
BNN-TV, on a show called It’s All About Arts,
which focuses on local artists, writers and
musicians. He tells us he gave NESADSU a
big rave, for which we thank him! To keep up,
email James at jfk@artguy.com.
1982 – Paula Whalen (Fine Arts) is
currently working on a series of paintings
of Hull’s last open spaces with a grant she
received from the Hull Cultural Council, a
local offshoot of the Massachusetts Cultural Council. In addition to painting, Paula
has a freelance apparel design company,
Whalen Studio, as which she designs for such
companies as TJMaxx, Marshalls, Chadwick’s
of Boston, Fresh Produce, and Telluride
Clothing Company, to name a few. She and a
partner also recently
started Two-Studios.
com, which designs
websites for small
businesses. When
not busy with any
of these enterprises,
Paula works with
her husband, James
Hardison, restoring
carousel horses. She
and James also have a nine-year-old daughter,
Louise and a house in Hull, very near the
ocean (“…which was a lifelong dream of
mine”.) Email Paula at whalenstudios@
cs.com.
1986 – Brida (DaSilva) Moreno is
currently living in Madrid and is working for
Euroamykasa, and architecture and interior
design firm doing residential and commercial
projects in Spain, France, Britain, Saudi Arabia,
Morocco, and the Dominican Republic.
Check their website at www.euroamykasa.
com and contact Brida at dasilvabrida@
yahoo.com.
1986 – Juan Lucero (Graphic Design)
has landed a job with the Newbury Street
design firm, Kaminsky Strategik Design,
whose client list includes Cabot Corporation,
Gillette, Mass. General Hospital, and Palmer
& Dodge. Check them out at www.ksdboston.com and email Juan at chanoc455@
hotmail.com.
1991 (BFA Suffolk 1993)– Kathryn
(Mahoney) Hehir (Graphic Design) is
living in Douglas, MA and has been teaching
art in the Sutton public schools for 12 years.
Happily married, also for 12 years, Kathy
has four children: Emily, Isabelle, Thomas
and Molly. Her eldest daughter, Emily (11) is
interested in art, from fashion to sculpture
and drawing so let’s see if she ends up at
NESADSU! You can contact Kathy at kathyhehir@charter.net.
1992 – James Schenck (Graphic
Design) is working as a Park Ranger at the
Grand Canyon and has managed to design
himself the perfect job. “I, unlike many others,
�M o r e C l a s s N ot e s
got into the permanent side of the Park
Service very quickly and for that I am very
fortunate and thankful. It seems that in my
attempts to change careers a few years ago,
to get out of the office and as far away from
cubicles and 20-hour days, I somehow created a unique job for myself where I can still
pursue my heart’s creative needs, the artistic
side of my brain, my love of people, teaching,
and being outdoors most of the day… My
responsibilities include researching, writing
and producing interpretive programs for a
wide audience ranging from 10 to hundreds
of visitors each day. I patrol trails, helping
hikers. I work with a team of historians
designing and producing a large exhibit for
the 75th anniversary of the CCC (Civilian
Conservation Corps) in 2008 here at the
park. I am responsible for producing all promotional signage for programs, events and
advertisements. And, during any given day, I
work at the visitors center desk answering
questions from the 4.5 million visitors that
move through here every year… I am very
glad that I can finally say with honesty…
I love what I do and do what I love.” Isn’t
that what it’s all about? Contact James at
jschenck2007@yahoo.com.
1995 – Carroll Conquest (Graphic
Design) has been accepted to graduate
school at Tufts University/The School of the
Museum of Fine Arts, beginning in late May,
where she will be working on an MAT in Art
Education. Carroll has her own graphic design firm, Conquest Design Inc. in Arlington
and teaches in the Graphic Design program
at NESADSU as well. You can get in touch
with her at c.conquest@conquestdesigninc.
com.
1995 – Matt Ohnemus (Graphic Design), Creative Director for FOX-5 and MY9 in New York, was married in September of
2006 to Phyllis Silverman, a writer/producer
for WNBC. Send your congratulations to
Matt and Phyllis at matohnemus@mac.com.
1998 – Del Hawbaker (Graphic Design) was married on June 17, 2006 to Edith
Gutierrez, the Art Editor of Business Week’s
SmallBIZ magazine. Del is still with Tommy
Hilfiger as the Design Manager in men’s
sportswear, doing the graphics for t-shirts,
hats, knits, etc. You can send congratulations
to Del at delhawbaker@mac.com.
1998 – Charleen Hilton (Interior
Design) keeps in regular touch regarding
her classmates, as the Secretary for the class
of 1998, but recently filled me in on her own
doings since graduation. From 1998 to 2000
she worked in Washington, DC for interior
designer Lisa Vandenburgh Ltd., for whom
she had worked part time while at NESAD.
“I was a design assistant to Lisa and was so
fortunate to have this experience. My favorite clients and homes…were on Embassy
Row and Nantucket Island. I was even fortunate enough to live in a client’s guest house
for 8 months to see the completion of one
project.” Then, from 2000 to 2001, Charleen
fulfilled a life-long desire to do floral design,
working for KaBloom on the South Shore. In
2001 she went out on her own, as Charleen
Marie Designs (CMD), consulting, in partnership with several contractors, for clients on
the Cape and South Shore. Now she’s also
an independent consultant for Arbonne
International products (“pure Swiss skincare”) as well. Charleen would love to find
classmates, Kavi Kittani and Chris Bordence,
so if anyone knows their whereabouts, please
email Charleen at charleenmd@yahoo.com.
Other classmates too: please get in touch
with Charleen and give her an update!
1998 - Melissa Horvath (Graphic Design) has left Boston to return to the New
York area, where she’s a full-time freelance
at Pearson Education/Prentice Hall, designing
high school literature textbooks. She’s also
freelancing at the same time for Maxim and
Stuff magazines. Though she’s hoping to find
a full-time position in New York in the near
future, the freelance work provides flexibility
as Melissa plans for her November 9, 2007
wedding to Ron Plyman, an Associate Art
Director at Business Week magazine. Our
congratulations to Melissa and Ron! Send
yours to her at melissa@melissahorvath.com.
2000 – Mary Ellen Stefanides (Graphic
Design) is in her fourth year with Wilkins
Management in Cambridge, doing both
design and musicians’ management for this
entertainment company. “Over the last year,
I have helped my boss design pieces related
to post-Katrina fundraising, specifically for the
Habitat for Humanity Musicians’ Village.” Mary
Ellen, who married John Fortin in August of
2003, is expecting her first child this summer.
Send your congratulations to her at omaryellen@hotmail.com.
2000 – Anna Valleser (Graphic
Design) is now working for Kovel-Fuller, a
full-service advertising agency in Culver City,
CA, as a production artist. She is also in her
second year as a Navy Reservist and has recently been promoted to Petty Officer Third
Class. As she says, “I am not yet deployable
but I will be within six months.” Anna has
also applied for the Officer’s Program, with
a special interest in public affairs, where her
design skills will be put to good use. You can
email Anna at anna_valleser@hotmail.com.
2000 – Jose Miguel Zulategui (Graphic
Design) has, in partnership with a friend
who has a two-branch advertising agency,
with offices in Madrid and Pamplona, opened
a third in Marbella, Spain. While the three offices are independent, they work in concert
on special projects or for special clients. The
agency, Gap’s Comunicacion Costa Del Sol,
does all kinds of advertising (TV, radio, print),
as well as graphic design and event planning.
Check out Miguel’s website at www.gapscostadelsol.com or the other two agencies
at www.gaps.es or www.gapspamplona.com,
and email Miguel at jmzulategui@hotmail.
com.
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2001 - Laura Granlund (Fine Arts)
took part
in a show
called Soft
Sell: A Plush
Exhibition at
DVA Gallery
in Chicago in
December.
Get in touch
with her
at intimidnation@
hotmail.com.
2001 – Malena Luongo (Graphic Design) has taken a job as a graphic designer
in the in-house design department of the
Milken Family Foundation in Santa Monica,
CA. The Foundation’s mission is to “discover
and advance inventive and effective ways of
helping people help themselves and those
around them lead productive and satisfying
lives….primarily though its work in education
and medical research…”.
You can email Malena at malenaluongo@
hotmail.com.
Spring
Please be sure to send your updated information
to Sara Chadwick at schadwic@suffolk.edu (for
our database and/or for publication) and also, if
you wish, to classnotes@suffolk.edu for the Suffolk
Alumni Magazine.
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2001 – Orsolya
Windhoffer
(Graphic Design)
just emailed us
with a change of
address (she’s still
in Maryland though,
working as Creative
Director for FlavorX,
a company that
develops flavoring for children’s medicines),
and added that she’s going to be married on
November 3rd. You can read all about it, see
lots of photos, and offer your congratulations
by logging on to www.orsolya.net.
2002 – Nick Heigelmann (Graphic Design) is working as a designer for Wellington
Management Company on State Street in
Boston, where his manager is Catherine
Pipes (Electronic Graphic Design 2002).
Check out Nick’s website at www.nickheigelmann.com and contact him at nheigelmann@
gmail.com.
2002 – Joyce Parent (MA in Interior
Design) has moved from Oak Point Associates to JSA Architects/Interiors/Planners in
Portsmouth, NH, where she joins two-year
veteran Chris Carver (Interior Design 2004).
You can reach Joyce at jpjm@gwi.net.
2003 – Vy Horwood (Interior Design)
has moved to Washington, DC and, since
October of 2005, has been working for
Gensler in Arlington, VA. She is engaged
to John Knaus, who is with the National
Endowment for Democracy, with plans to
marry on June 9, 2007 in St. Mary’s City, MD
and honeymoon in Italy. She also sends a
“hello” to Mark Brus (“I’m glad to hear he’s
still teaching at NESAD – he was one of the
best teachers I had.”) You can reach Vy at
vy_horwood@gensler.com.
working on the Renaissance in Boca Raton, a
Marriott in Ft. Lauderdale, and Waters Edge
in CT. You can reach Lauren at ldorazio@
dileonardo.com.
2004 – Earl Misquitta (Graphic Design) is working as a graphic designer for
United Gulf Management, Inc., an investment
management company in Boston. You can
reach him at earl@earlmisquitta.com.
2004 – Jemima Pierre (Graphic Design) has relocated to Los Angeles, where
she is an admissions representative for Argosy University in Santa Monica. She is also a
student at Argosy, pursuing her MBA degree.
You can reach her at jemima__pierre@
hotmail.com.
2004 – Brian Reardon (Graphic
Design) has left Houghton Mifflin and has
moved to Cool Gear International in Plymouth, where he’s working with Larry Kwong
(Graphic Design 2004). You can get in touch
with Brian at brian.reardon58@gmail.com.
2004 – Samantha Calden (Graphic
Design) has moved to Oakland, CA to pursue a Master of Fine Arts degree in Graphic
Design at the Academy of Art University
in San Francisco. At the same time, she is
working remotely as a freelance designer
for Hearts on Fire, a Boston-based diamond
company and one of the luxury industry’s
fastest growing companies. Get in touch with
Samantha at scalden79@yahoo.com.
2004 – Julie Richard (MA in Interior
Design) has left the Duffy Design Group
and opened her own firm, Shelter, specializing in residential and small hospitality
design, in Salem, MA. She is also teaching at
Endicott College in Beverly, retail design last
fall semester and construction documents
this spring. In addition, Julie and husband,
Keven Hobbs, are expecting their first child
in July. Email your congratulations to them at
jricharddesign@comcast.net.
2004 – Katherine DeMelo (Interior
Design) has relocated to Miami Beach,
where she is an interior designer for RTKL
Associates, Inc., an international architecture,
engineering and planning firm. You can email
her at kdemelo27@yahoo.com.
2004 – Lisa Young (Interior Design) has
returned to Massachusetts and is currently
working as an Account Manager for Office
Environments of New England in Boston. You
can reach her at lisayoung05@yahoo.com.
2004 – Lauren Dorazio (Interior
Design) has left her job in the facilities
management department at Rhode Island
Hospital in Providence and has moved to
DiLeonardo International, a hospitality design
firm in Warwick, RI. There she joins the
subject of our last alumni interview, Marc
Ciannavei (Interior Design 1985), who has
been with the firm for about a year. Lauren is
a Specifier, which means that she works with
a designer, helping with the design itself and
the finishes, furniture and equipment, then
adds all the design specifications. She’s now
2005 – Michele Levy-Kodarin (Interior
Design) has returned to Toronto and is
currently the Manager, In-Store marketing
for jewelry and footwear for the Hudson’s
Bay Company. Working for 98 Bay stores and
400 Zellers stores across Canada, Michele is
putting to good use both her background in
visual merchandising and her interior design
experience (“The best of both worlds!”). You
can reach Michele at mlevyk@msn.com.
2005 – Elizabeth (Viall) Lazay (MA in
Interior Design) is the Design Direc-
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tor for her family’s business, Tweed, a chain
of retail stores in New Jersey and Virginia,
soon to expand elsewhere. Liz is the Vice
President for Design and Communications
for stores that sell furniture, home accessories and gifts, for which she does visual
merchandising and graphic design, as well as
the corporate website. Prior to her joining
the firm, Liz practiced interior design for
William Hodgins in Boston. Contact her at
Elizabeth@tweedathome.com.
2006 – Colleen Barrett (Interior Design) is a junior designer at ARC/Architectural Resources Cambridge, an architecture,
planning and interior design firm with such
clients as the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, Genzyme, Syracuse University, and St. George’s School in Newport, RI.
You can reach Colleen at colleenbar@gmail.
com.
2006 – Marissa Borst (Interior Design)
has taken a job as an interior designer at
Boeckl Gates In Washington, CD. Boeckl
Gates is a full service design firm that does
a variety of work, from retail (many of the
stores on M Street in Georgetown) to the
Croatian Embassy in Washington. In her
spare time, Marissa works for Anthem Entertainment, a Washington events firm, doing
sales and marketing. Soon, however, she’ll be
starting her own firm, All’s Well That Ends
Well: Designs by Marissa Borst, as a freelance
graphic designer. With her full-time job and
freelance interior design work, that will make
a full schedule. You can reach Marissa at
marissa@boecklgates.com.
2006 – Emily Burgess (Interior
Design) has moved to the Washington,
DC area and is working for an interior
design firm in Annapolis, MD. She is a junior
designer in the model homes division at
Interior Concepts, a company that, among
other things, creates model home designs
for homebuilders nationwide. You can reach
Emily at emilypburgess@hotmail.com.
2006 – Jennifer (Caldwell) Chambers
(Electronic Graphic Design) and her
husband, Brett, moved to North Berwick,
Maine in September. Once settled, Jennie
started her own stationery and greeting card
company (check out www.20limedesign.
com) with one line of note cards, but
reception has been brisk so she’s expanding
quickly. “I’m also taking on some freelance
work and recently designed an identity system for a charter school in Pennsylvania and
an annual report and newsletter for a community hospital, also in Pennsylvania… I can’t
believe that it has already been a year since
graduation. Seems like time is flying these
days.” Contact Jennie at jenilime@mac.com.
2006 – Margaret Furlong (MA in Interior Design) is currently with Group One
Partners, Inc., an architecture and interior
design firm with offices in South Boston.
You can reach Margaret at mfurlongdesign@
verizon.net.
2006 – Allison Hughes (Interior Design) has started her own residential interior
design business, Hughes Design, in Beverly,
MA. She also took part in the designers’
showhouse sponsored by the Jewish Community Center of the North Shore, which
opens to the public on May 6th, running
through June 3rd. Questions? Email Allison at
a.hughesdesign@gmail.com.
2006 – Layla Khashogji (Interior
Design) returned to Saudi Arabia after
graduation and has found a job with a firm
called Signature Interiors, a young and growing firm based in Jeddah. The company does
residential, corporate and commercial architecture and interior design work throughout
Saudi Arabia. Since returning, Layla has been
in touch with Hasan Al Mutawakel (Interior
Design 1986), who himself owns an interior
design firm, called Multiform, in Jeddah. You
can reach Layla at khashogji.layla@yahoo.com
and Hasan at Multiform2000@yahoo.com.
2006 – Brooke Knight (Interior Design) is an interior designer with TRO/Jung
Brannen, along with Cheryl Spigler (MA In Interior Design 2006). TRO and Jung Brannen,
two of the Boston area’s best known design
firms, merged in October and will relocate
this summer to new offices on Boston Wharf
Road. You can reach Brooke at bknight105@
yahoo.com.
2006 – Oriana Merlo (Interior Design)
is currently working for the internationally
known architectural firm of Moshe Safdie
& Associates in Somerville. She is also an
adjunct instructor at NESADSU, teaching
Interior Materials & Finishes. You can reach
Oriana at orianamerlo@comcast.net.
2006 – Lisa Sobolewski (Interior
Design) has joined Marilyn Shen (MA in
Interior Design 2006) and Michele Kennedy
(MA in Interior Design, September 2005)
at Visnick & Caulfield, Inc. Architects and
Interior Designers, around the corner from
NESADSU on Boylston Street. You can reach
Lisa at yasuadio@yahoo.com.
2006 – Eileen
Umba (Fine
Arts) is taking
some time off
from work to
care for her
new daughter,
Siena Bella, born
September 16,
2006. You can
reach Eileen with
congratulations
at eileenumba@
hotmail.com.
2007 – Mary Orlando (MA in Interior
Design) has taken a position as an interior
designer with SLC Interiors in South Hamilton, MA. SLC Interiors is owned by Suzanne
Csongor, who used to teach at NESAD, and
is also where Karin Barrows (Interior Design
1999) has been employed for a number
of years. You can contact Mary at maryorlando2002@yahoo.com.
2004 – Bethany Lyford (Interior
Design) is working as an interior designer
in Providence for Robert Amendolara Associates. You can reach her at hedkrueger@
cox.net.
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I w e n t b ac k t o w h at I or i g i na l ly wa n t e d,
w h i c h wa s a rt.
Mish in California, 2006
One of the most interesting aspects of interviewing an alum for
this feature is finding out what that person did before they came
to NESADSU, then where those two sets of experiences led after
Balsam. I was in the Grand Canyon for six months and it was aweinspiring. It really changed me, changed everything I did and thought.
It was the first time I was immersed in a culture that was so alien
graduation. In other words, what goes in and what comes out.
Michelle McIntyre is a case in point. For all I thought I knew about
her, there were 100 things I didn’t.
from my own that I had no reference points. Everything from flora
and fauna…to prayers in the morning and the flow of life was
totally, totally different. I was able to spend some time with the
elders of the Hopi tribe. We whitewater rafted the Grand Canyon
together to look for traditional cultural property…a property that
is identified by the tribe itself as being valuable. They were caring
and open, treating me as a granddaughter during the trip, teaching
me at night the names of the Hopi constellations.”
Spring 2007
After an unsatisfying semester at Bridgewater State College, Mish
returned to college in 1990, attending Massasoit Community College, not so much because she thought it was ultimately the place
for her but rather as a steppingstone. “My parents were against me
pursuing any kind of a bachelor’s degree in art. Both were convinced I would starve to death as an artist…so I hatched a plan to
attend a two-year community college where I could work and pay
the tuition in several payments. The time would allow me to build a
strong GPA to apply
I went for the closest thing, half-science, half-art, for scholarships to
transfer to a four-year
which was archeology. And I absolutely loved it.
institution.” Massasoit,
I did illustrations, photography, everything, but I however, was more
life-transforming that
loved the science as well.
Mish realized it would
be. As a big fish in a relatively small pond, she found herself taking
leadership roles more than once, and developed an intense interest in politics. As a member of the Student Senate, she organized
a rally to protest state cuts in education funding. From this one
experience came a dawning awareness of the power of politics, of
crowd manipulation and abuse of power. The underlying political
overtones of much of her artwork were born here.
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Mish’s successes at Massasoit led to her being awarded a scholarship to Franklin Pierce College in New Hampshire, where she
completed a bachelor’s degree in anthropology (“halfway between
science [where her parents wanted her to be] and art”). Upon
graduation, in 1993, “I literally threw my cap off, got in a car, and left
for Arizona. I’d won an internship at the Grand Canyon, with one
of the most famous up-and-coming archeologists of the day, Jan
I then asked how Mish got from the Grand Canyon back east.
“They wanted me to stay…but they were only paying me $42 a
week and I couldn’t survive on that!” While with the Hopi, she
had been working with the GIS system, “basically an early global
positioning system. I was doing GPS work with the government and
their satellites…. So, when I came back, I fell into computer work,
and got a job with a company that was associated with Microsoft,
so we were basically Microsoft’s help desk…. Then I moved to
Compaq. I’d been working for a Visual Fox Pro product, a relational
database that Microsoft had, so at Compaq I did remote control.
That’s now standard in any computer but at that point it was
revolutionary. Now if you have help desk problems, you can call and
they can connect to your computer through the Internet.”
Then I asked how she’d decided to go into art from the computer
world. “I didn’t. At that point, I got the call, in 1997, telling me I
had a brain tumor. So I left Compaq. I had several operations and
I was really sick. It took me years to gain back health enough to
do anything. I was REALLY disabled. Then, after the second brain
operation, I started feeling better. I was still having sight problems
but I was really feeling better. So I said, look, I can have a complete
do-over. I have no ties, I have no job to go back to. I couldn’t go
back to archeology, because I physically couldn’t do that anymore. I
had been an artist when I was in high school and I’d always wanted
to be an artist my entire life, but my parents refused to allow me
to. They said I’d starve to death. So I went for the closest thing,
�“As soon as somebody plays a glass the entire room turns and…becomes involved.
half-science, half-art, which was archeology. And I absolutely loved
it. I did illustrations, photography, everything, but I loved the science
as well.”
So was that when she decided to go to art school? “At that point,
they didn’t know what was going to happen to me, how long I was
going to live, if this was going to be a life-shortening sort of disease.
So I thought, if I had only so much time, I was going to do what I
wanted to do! So I went
“I had such a love for drawing and painting back to what I originally
and sculpture. I couldn’t bear to leave it! So wanted to do, which was
art. I still had that sciI didn’t…”
ence thing, so I thought of
architecture or interior design. I could combine all that in interior
design, and that’s why I came here [to NESADSU]. I wanted to do
the Masters program and I didn’t care how long it was going to
take. Disability paid for the first semester…and that’s all I needed.
At that point I could get scholarships. I could show Suffolk real
financial need and academic excellence. I went through the Foundation program, loved it, started the interior design program, started
working for [Interior Design Program Director] Karen [Clarke]
with a [library] fellowship, loved working for Karen. Then I started
my first actual, technical interior design course – hated it! I didn’t
care what the fire code of the building was. I just wanted to draw
and design and craft, so quickly decided I was in the wrong major.”
So Mish transferred from the Master of Arts program in Interior
Design to the Diploma program in Fine Arts. “I had such a love for
drawing and painting and sculpture. I couldn’t bear to leave it! So I
didn’t. I worked under [Fine Arts Program Director] Audrey [Goldstein] and [Adjunct Instructor] Deb [Weisberg] and they kicked my
butt! It was good for me. It really pushed me out of the box I was
in and made me think about other things. They gave me the ability
to give a strong opinion in a narrative direction.”
From here our conversation turned to Mish’s art work. The first
thing out of her mouth was, not at all apologetically, “I am a video
game geek! I love board games, I love card games, I love everything
about games! Sudoku, all those strategy games. I just like that
challenge and that engagement. It’s like submersing yourself in a
new environment: everything else just floats away, except for what
you’re doing. It’s a natural instinct. One of the most basic human
natures is to play the game successfully. It goes back to natural
instinct, survival of the fittest. If you have a challenge in front of you,
you want to solve it. You have a biological need to solve it, so you’ll
be successful. It engages your whole mental capacity…it helps hone
your memory and your skills. The whole idea of strategy is to guess
the other person’s next move. If you can figure out what they’re
going to do before they do it, then you have the edge.”
Mish’s work also contains some potent political statements. “My
family is terrible! Half of us are Republicans and half of us are
Independents. I’m the only Democrat. There’s a lot of yelling and
screaming going on all the time. I have this sense of what’s right and
wrong and I get really angry when I believe things that are wrong
happen, which is all the time now…. I believe a politician should
rise above and be the best of us and guide us…. But now you have
all these actors and actresses and it’s all about public speaking and
presentation. I get so angry about it all.”
How to combine the two? “I’m starting on a new piece now. I’m
in the design phase and I’ll take about three months to research.
I’m thinking about the game of Monopoly and the city of Boston.
There’s a complete disconnect between what they’re saying [about
the local economy] and what’s happening on the streets. There are
more and more people losing their jobs, more people are being
forced out of Massachusetts, college kids can’t stay here. So I’m
going to take Monopoly, as it’s based on land and land prices and
housing, and turn it into a commentary, economically and socially,
about Boston. It’ll be about foreclosures, land prices, crime, Mayor
Menino and what he’s doing…. I’ll use it like a science project.”
A science project is what gave life to October, one of Mish’s most
provocative works. “I recorded my leisure time every day for the
month of October, to see how much leisure time I actually have in
a day and how that varies. The other part of the research had to do
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“October” by Mish McIntyre
with the fact that Benjamin Franklin once created what was called
an armonica, which was a series of bowls, with differing amounts
of water in them, on a spindle. Instead of moving your finger over
casually and Jill did my senior thesis review. I looked at MIT, Cal
Arts, San Francisco Institute of Art, the Museum School, I checked
out Chicago. When I visited the schools, I found that the faculties
the glasses to make a tone, the spindle moved the glasses and you
could actually play it, kind of like a piano roll. With the armonica,
there was a certain interaction of the kind I want between the artist and the public. The glasses and the water look beautiful but, until
an audience member actually plays with the piece, it doesn’t come
alive. As soon as somebody plays a glass the entire room turns
and…becomes involved. That’s what I want.”
were amazing. But when I talked to the students, I was significantly
disappointed. This sounds really ignorant, but I was well beyond
them intellectually. They weren’t being pushed the way I wanted
to be pushed…and they were so isolated. They didn’t have any
understanding of what was going on locally or internationally in
art. And they argued with each other. They weren’t supportive and
I didn’t want any of that, not after NESADSU.” But she obviously
didn’t find the same conditions at Mass. Art? “Nope, a completely
different story. Jill came and did my final review. She had amazing
insights into my work…. It was the first time someone other than
Audrey or [Assistant Professor] Randal [Thurston] or Deb, just
exceptional faculty members, really had insight I hadn’t thought
about. And, when I went and talked with their grad students, they
were intellectually equal, AND they were supportive of each other.
I don’t want to go into a graduate program that is so competitive
that everyone is isolated. Another reason I chose Mass. Art. is that
there’s been a loss of the master/apprentice relationship in the art
world, since the Bauhaus in the 1930’s. You’ve lost that one-on-one
with a master. Both Audrey and Deb were mentored by Jill and Judy
so, by moving from Audrey and Deb to Jill and Judy, I’m reestablishing that kind of master/apprenticeship. It’s a similar pedagogy that
I’m comfortable with.”
Spring 2007
The wine glasses that make up Mish’s own armonica are filled with
levels of water corresponding to the amount of leisure time she
registered each day in the month of October. The differing levels
give each glass a different tone (“I even had a musician come in
and identify the fifteen different tones they made.”) So you could
actually play a song? “And people did! But it doesn’t come alive for
me until I see it. Hiding in the back of the room, I get to see that
private moment when the audience actually explores the piece.
There’s a wonder that takes over and they engage. Then it’s a community builder as people play the glasses together.”
& Th e n
16 17
Many, if not most, art works say “Do Not Touch” and that aggravates Mish. “One of my big challenges is trying to engage the audience without telling them what to do.” In Lost Hopes, Lost Dreams,
Lost Prayers, she filled a military-issue body bag with thousands of
Islamic prayer beads (the “lost prayers”), one for each civilian casualty of the Iraq war, inviting the public to take or add beads. A sign
on the bag gives the unofficial, but, in Mish’s mind, more accurate
tally of the dead and wounded (“The US government actually had a
policy of not counting civilian casualties, until it became such a big
deal in the press. But the count is still not accurate.”), providing a
political context for both bag and beads.
I asked whether Mish’s goal, while a student at NESADSU, had
always been to go to graduate school. “Yes! I want to teach!… I
applied at Massachusetts College of Art, in Fine Arts/3-D, because
of Judy Haberl and Jill Slosberg-Ackerman. I’ve met both of them
“Lost Hopes, Lost Dreams, Lost Prayers” by Mish McIntyre
�“Lost Hopes, Lost Dreams, Lost Prayers” by Mish McIntyre
At the moment, Mish is working at NESADSU as Program Coordinator for the Graphic Design program, under the direction of
Program Director Laura Golly (“YAY!”). Where is she healthwise?
“April’s my next MRI. I have a fourth brain tumor so am looking
at my fourth surgery. It’s no big deal”, she said with a laugh. “I hate
the hospital so much that I rebound really quickly! But the surgery
is more difficult this
time because of all the
What about teaching, which is what Mish
scar tissue. And radiawould like to do after graduate school? Her
tion will kill my pituitary,
teaching philosophy, like so many things, devel- which controls just
oped, in part at least, from her association with about everything, so I’d
have to go on all kinds
the Hopi in Arizona.
of drugs. Unfortunately
I’m allergic to just about everything, drug-wise, so that complicates
things…. It’s going to be hard but the last time I went through this,
I found a social worker who taught me all the tools I needed to
make these decisions, without allowing them to consume me…to
keep my life together.”
There have been so many obstacles that illness has put in Mish’s
way, but, for all that, she can still see the positive. “Randal remembers in 2003, in my first semester here, when I took 2D Design
from him and Drawing I from Jeff Hull. I actually lost my eyesight
during that semester, so I would actually come to class with a cane
because that was the only way I could get there. Randal taught me
how to draw by scientific formula because I couldn’t draw what
Jeff wanted otherwise. It was brilliant! Jeff taught me how to relax,
Randal how to use tricks to identify what was going on visually. I’ve
used those tricks to this day, in every aspect of my life.”
I asked Mish about her various philosophies, her political philosophy and the one that dictates that, because she doesn’t know
exactly what may happen down the road, tells her to “seize the
day”, to do what is important to her and not to others. Are there
others? “Yes. The other is because I like and attract people. I naturally migrate to leadership roles, I have a huge skill set because of
my crazy life, and I have a lot to contribute. But I also have played
around with numerology and I know that I have a karma debt of
abuse of power. There’s a line between leading and helping and
being a good person, and abusing my ability to manipulate people.
That’s my balancing act.”
What about teaching, which is what Mish would like to do after
graduate school? Her teaching philosophy, like so many things, developed, in part at least, from her association with the Hopi in Arizona. “The elders shared their knowledge with me but the teaching
method was radically different from anything I had experienced at
school [at Massasoit and Franklin Pierce]. The Hopi elders are leaders but they let their students come to their own conclusions, so
all they do is to manipulate the environment to allow the students
to figure out the solution to the problem. The emphasis was on
the self-esteem-building that comes from figuring something out
yourself. From that point on, when I tutor or teach, or present my
artwork, it all revolves around the “game” I’ve put out for you and I
allow you to figure it out for yourself. I poke you in a certain direction with a little stick you don’t even see.” Doesn’t sound like a bad
way to learn.
S.C. §
�FACULTY
interview
A n I n t e rv i e w w i t h C h a r l e s G i u l i a no
After over a quartercentury with The New
England School of Art &
Design, Charles Giuliano
is retiring at the end of
the spring 2007 semester.Therefore it seems
only fitting that he be
Charles (center) with Lydia Martin (left) and
given the opportunity, in
Michael Brodeur (right) circa 1989.
this interview, to tell the
story of his years with the school, the legions of students who have passed
through his classes, and what he’s done and plans to do outside of school.
The holder of a BA in Fine Arts from Brandeis University and an MA in
American Art and Architecture from Boston University, Charles was hired
as a part-time instructor of art history in January of 1980 and as Gallery Director in 1995. Since then, he’s had in class the vast majority of
students who have passed through NESAD and NESADSU and it’s safe
to say most remember him vividly. Charles’ goal in teaching art history
to non-art historians was always to make the class much more than a dry
recitation of names and dates. After all, the course description says that
“the objective of this… survey course is to provide a path by which the
student may take the ideas and lessons extracted from the study of art
history and turn those ideas into meaningful insights to be utilized in
the studio”.
Spring 2007
In addition, Charles is also a writer and critic, well known to New England artists, curators, and gallery-goers, as well as the keeper of Maverick
Arts and Berkshire Fine Arts web-based newsletter on all aspects of the
American art scene. But we’ll let him tell you about all of that.
& Th e n
18 19
Q. What brought you to NESAD in the first place?
A. It was a matter of chance. I happened to be late getting to a class
at Boston University, where I was a graduate student, and bumped
into a classmate who was also running late. In that encounter
she informed me that she was graduating and would be leaving
Boston. She asked if I would be interested in applying for the job
she was vacating at The New England School of Art & Design. I was
interviewed by Bill Davis, who was then second in command to the
director, Chris Rufo. Bill hired me, I don’t recall the year, probably
around 1980 or so, and I have been with NESAD ever since.
Q. As an art history major in college myself, I can attest to the fact
that the subject can be as dry as dirt or as fascinating as anything.
What’s your technique for avoiding the former and keeping your
students interested in the subject at hand?
A. That is a most challenging question and issue. I often point out to
students that the course is called Ideas of Western Art and is not
just about memorizing images and dates, although that is an aspect
of what they learn. Memorizing is the hard part of art history and
there is no way to avoid that. But more importantly objects and
buildings need to exist in a place that includes what we call the
zeitgeist, which is the mood of the period. What are the ideas and
issues that surround the pyramids, Chartres cathedral or the new
building of the Institute of Contemporary Art? Works of art and
buildings get created for a reason and reflect the concerns of the
time. So in that sense an artist and art historian needs to know and
be curious about virtually everything from religion and philosophy,
to politics, history, science and technology. This is what I try to
bring to students and often they feel overwhelmed by the glut of
information. But most of all I try to stimulate their curiosity of
the world they live in and the images that surround them. That art
and architecture may also signify propaganda and marketing. Art is
always about selling us something. And, of course, most of all I try
to make the classroom a place where learning is fun. That entails
really bad and now ancient jokes.
Q. Since the merger with Suffolk, how have your students changed?
Are they more mainstream, so to speak, or still the free thinkers
they used to be? And has your teaching philosophy changed over
the years? Are you still as provocative as you used to be or have
you been mainstreamed too?
A.Yes, students have changed dramatically from the wild west
years on Newbury Street. The students of that era were not gifted
academically but many of them were wonderfully creative and went
on to have brilliant and successful careers. All of us old timers can
readily recall the infamous ‘class from hell.’ We were so glad to
push them out the door but they were also demanding and amazing on other levels. The students today are far more qualified and
disciplined. There were questions about how they would succeed
when we merged with Suffolk. I was unique at the time as I was the
only professor who was then teaching for both institutions. So I
had a different perspective. It was wonderful to observe that when
our students got folded into the Suffolk community they were often the most dynamic and successful. Ask any Suffolk professor and
they will readily state that their NESAD students are outstanding.
For one thing they are far more serious and disciplined.You can’t
party your way through NESAD in the manner that has become
all too familiar at Suffolk. It is just not possible to fake studio assignments and pass those courses after an all-nighter. As to being
provocative, unfortunately, that hasn’t changed. Maturity and reason
still elude me.
Q.You used to require performance pieces of your art history
students, many of which I remember very well as being absolutely
hilarious. Many of your former students do too…..
�A. Actually that wasn’t really my idea. Our chair at the time was
Steve Belcher who wanted an extreme makeover of the entire curriculum including art history. So I was mandated to find a different
way to teach art history. The performances as an end of the year
alternative to exams was the outcome. They were great but clearly
belong to another era. Some of the pieces were truly inspired while
other students were self conscious and uncomfortable. It seemed
to bring out the best and worst of the students. Most importantly
if brought out the freedom of truly being avant-garde. Some of the
students went on from there and continued as performance and
video artists. Often when we did those pieces it felt like we really
were an art school. Even now that feeling is all too rare.
Q. Talk about your tenure as Gallery Director. What have you tried
to do with the gallery and how has that changed since the merger?
A. It has been wonderful to have the chance to serve as the director of exhibitions. It was an opportunity to pull together a lot of
elements particularly functioning as an art critic and arts activist
for many years before evolving as a full time curator. I had done
shows prior to that including exhibitions that traveled to museums.
But programming the gallery twelve months a year and creating
consistently relevant exhibitions that fit the mandates of the school
and community was enormously challenging. The first issue was
convincing first class artists that it was to their benefit to show
with us. Those initial shows were so well received that after that I
was basically never turned down when approaching the best artists.
Some projects never came through because of unforeseen factors.
Most of the time artists delivered and we only really got stuck on a
couple of occasions. Once when an artist cancelled at the last minute. That resulted in a student having a much deserved solo show
of which I was enormously proud. And the notorious show last
year when the artist strung me along for a year, was evasive about
the project, and then wrote on the wall “This exhibition has been
cancelled” and listed several reasons why. I approached it as a “conceptual” project but it caused a backlash from faculty and students
that I tried to channel into a dialogue about the avant-garde. I still
stand by allowing an artist the freedom and opportunity to make
that conceptual statement. It was actually quite an important statement and learning experience. Also our two shows with Native
American artists have been pioneering and of great importance to
the University. Our show with the Visionary artist Paul Laffoley got
little media attention but won a critics award and it was gratifying
that the artist was given a huge spread in the Globe and our show
was finally recognized.
Q.You’ve got quite a reputation as a writer and critic. Is that where
you’ll put your post-retirement energies? And what about the
website? Any plans there?
A. Thanks for asking and readers are invited to check them out at
www.maverick-arts.com and www.berkshirefinearts.com. Both sites
have been growing steadily and now equal or exceed the readership of magazines such as Art New England. So I will continue to
put creative energy into further development of the sites.
Q.You’ve always done a great deal of photography. Are you going
to continue that or are you headed in another direction? Are you
showing these days?
A. For the past several months I have been going through a vast archive of images and scanning them into Photoshop. I am preparing
for a retrospective of the portraits for a show in the gallery in May.
They cover all aspects of my creative interests and interviews from
art through jazz and rock. I think it will be a fun show. It is typical of
me to plan my own retirement party and I hope lots of people will
come and see the result of all these years of covering the arts.
Q. If you could choose your replacement, either as a teacher of art
history or as Gallery Director, what would you look for and how
could you be certain that person would fit in here?
A. It is absolutely clear that in today’s academic world I would
never get hired. The University is far more established with a
greater emphasis on credentials. But I hope that whoever teaches
art history realizes and adjusts to the reality that they are teaching artists and designers. That is a very special audience with a
unique range of challenges and opportunities. So I would hope
that the search is for someone who combines both creativity and
art history. Perhaps an individual who is an artist, curator or critic
and not just an academic. As to the gallery I have hand picked and
trained James Manning. Given a chance I have every confidence that
he will do a terrific job.
Q. What has kept you at NESADSU for 27 years?!
A. Good heavens. Has it really been that long? That makes me feel
so old. But the truth is that I have really and truly loved being a
part of NESAD. A couple of times over the years I actually went
into Bill’s office and offered to resign. He always talked me out of
it. So we have Bill to thank or blame.
It’s his fault. And I am sure that is true
for a lot of us. He has been a terrific
and supportive person. He saved not
just me but NESAD itself during some
dark days. We all owe him our love
and gratitude. Hey guys, thanks for the
memories.
Charles shortly before his retirement in 2007.
�The New England School of
Art & Design at Suffolk University
75 Arlington Street
Boston, MA 02116
G a l l e ry S c h e du l e
GALLERY
schedule
2007
MAIN GALLERY: Last Call: A Retrospective: Charles
Giuliano
This will be Charles’ last exhibition as Gallery Director at NESADSU and the opening reception will constitute his retirement party.
Come and let Charles know how much you appreciate his years
of teaching!
May 17th to June 29th
Reception/retirement party: Friday May 18th 5–7 PM
MAIN GALLERY: Stencils
MAIN GALLERY: John Powell
A sculptural lighting exhibition.
September 4th to October 6th
Reception: Thursday September 6th 5–7 PM
MAIN GALLERY: Susan Nichter
Recent paintings by a NESADSU faculty member.
October 11th to November 10th
Reception: Thursday, October 11th 5–7 PM
These interactive installations will be guest curated by Hiroko
Kikuchi
July 26th to August 25th
MAIN GALLERY: Ozspirations
Reception: Thursday, July 26th 5–7 PM
November 15th to December 22nd
Reception: Thursday, November 15th 5–7 PM
The Land of Oz, curated by Associate Professor of Graphic
Design Jennifer Fuchel.
Note: The Gallery will be closed from August 25th to September
3rd for repainting and preparation for the fall 2007 season.
* Call (617) 573-8785 to confirm dates and times of exhibitions
and opening receptions.
�
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NESADSU Alumni Newsletter
& Then
Fa l l 2 0 0 7 I s s u e # 13
85-Year-Old Graduate has Great
Success with Women…
And great success with the general public as well.
NESA alum John Burbidge (1948 Fashion Design) is
currently exhibiting his collection of 59 costumed
mannequins, made to scale, which he calls Les
Petites Dames de Mode, at Ventfort Hall in Lenox,
MA. The exhibition, which was to end in September,
has been extended until December 31st (2007) due
to the unprecedented numbers of visitors it has
attracted, including the likes of cellist Yo-Yo Ma who
dropped by in August.
The “Little Ladies”, as John calls them, must be seen
to be believed and that’s why I’m urging everyone
to make the trip to Lenox, in the Berkshires of
western Massachusetts, before the end of the year.
This interest was fueled by a chance wartime trip to the
Louvre in Paris.There he found on exhibit nearly 300
27-inch mannequins dressed by the leading Parisian
couturiers of the day.
The “Ladies” are 29 inches tall and are dressed in
historically correct costumes, all designed and executed by John, of the Victorian and Edwardian eras
(1855 to 1914). Wedding gowns, tea dresses, ball
gowns, traveling suits, all are meticulously crafted
and completely original. Tiny hats, parasols, fans, jewelry and other accessories complete each ensemble.
John, who was associated for 40 years with Priscilla
of Boston, perhaps the premier bridal company in
the country (he designed Tricia
Nixon’s wedding gown), decided,
upon retirement, to resolve
his “mid-life creative crisis” by
indulging his long-time interest in
period costuming. This interest
was fueled by a chance wartime
trip to the Louvre in Paris. There
he found on exhibit nearly 300
27-inch mannequins dressed by
the leading Parisian couturiers of
the day and designed to demA costume for Ascot Races circa 1907
onstrate that, despite the war, French couture was
alive and well. From this experience came John’s
life-long fascination with period costume.
In addition to the exhibition at Ventfort Hall, you
can see (and you will be amazed by) John’s work in
his book, Les Petites Dames de Mode, which is available at Ventfort Hall, in the NESADSU library, and
through bookstores or on line. The book details the
evolution of the “Ladies”, the history behind each
one, and John’s biography as well. Liberally illustrated with amazing photographs of each creation,
and of John at work, the book is a feast of history,
craftsmanship and inspiration.
John Burbidge at work
Though it’s subject for another article, John’s wife
of 57 years, Cile, also a 1948 graduate of NESA,
has also been intimately involved with the bridal
industry for over 50 years, not dressing brides, but
feeding them. To call her a “cake designer” would be
a gross understatement, like calling Michaelangelo
a painter. While John creates in fabric and lace, Cile
works her magic in flour and sugar, creating cakes
that boggle the imagination. But I’ll leave that for
another time.
“Les Petites Dames de Mode” is available for viewing until December 31, 2007.Ventfort Hall Mansion
and Gilded Age Museum is located in Lenox, MA
at 104 Walker
Street. For
information, telephone (413) 6373206 or email
info@gildedage.
org. S.C. §
Afternoon dressing circa 1910
Inside
Editor’s Note . . . . . . . . 2
Lost Alumni . . . . . . . . . 2
Whatever Happened to? . 3
Did You Know? . . . . . . . 3
News & Tidbits . . . . . . . . 4
Little Cultural
Differences . . . . . . . . . 8
Class Notes . . . . . . . . . 10
Feedback . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Alumni Focus . . . . . . . 16
Faculty Interview . . . . 18
Dinner gown circa 1883
Gallery Schedule . . . . 20
�When I first started this alumni magazine, I worried about whether I would
be able to fill an issue each semester. At
times I couldn’t imagine ever having
enough to write about, though should
have known better, after 29 years at the
school! So, here is the 13th issue, as large
as ever and still full of news I hope you
find interesting.
In this edition we offer you installment #2 of Kate McLean’s
series on the Paris design scene, called “Cultural Differences”,
along with a “Whatever Happened to…?” by its subject, former
faculty member Steve Lyons. Another welcome contributor is
Mish McIntyre, who, along with Jessie Schloss, has written about
a new collaborative effort among recent Fine Arts graduates.
(Part of the secret of filling this magazine is getting others to do
some of the writing…)
If you’re interested in finding out how our recent NASAD reaccreditation went, turn to page 5 for the verdict. And, as always,
check out the Class Notes, to find out what your friends are up
to. If you don’t see your name, it’s because I have no recent news
of you. C’mon, send it in!
Remember that this magazine exists for you, so please let me
know if there are things you’d like to see in it. If you feel like
contributing photographs or an article, let me know that too.
You can show off your work, talk about what you’re doing
design-wise, or write about something else that’s important to
you. If you just want to comment on something you’ve seen in a
previous issue, then Feedback is the section for you.
Lost Alumni
Does anyone know where I can find these NESA/D/SU alumni?
They’re no longer at the addresses I had for them and I haven’t been
able to trace them. If you know, please send me an email at
schadwic@suffolk.edu.
Many thanks, detectives!
Sara
P.S. Last time, this worked and I found Christine Jellow (Interior Design
1979), thanks to Laura Glen (Interior Design 2001).
Alyssa Weaver
Jessica (Chih Yun) Lu
Pedro Carrasquillo
Patricio Calderon
Rachel Lane (nee Miller)
Deborah (McCarthy) Richard
Aimee Whitlock
Interior Design
Interior Design
Graphic Design
Graphic Design
Interior Design
Graphic Design
Interior Design
2003
1995
1985
1989
1994
1982
2003
S.C. §
Please send your photographs and news for inclusion in the next issue. Send all
photographs, slides, or digital files, with an accompanying caption that identifies
who is in the picture and when and where it was taken. All photographs, slides
and digital files should be 300 dpi at 5”x7” (1500 x 2100 pixels, total filesize four
megabytes approximately), a high-resolution JPEG taken with at least a threemegapixel camera.
So stay in touch and please let me know if you change your
address or your job.
Thanks and happy Fall,
Sara
Th e N e w E n g l a n d S c h ool o f
A rt & D e s i g n at
S u f f ol k U n i v e r s i t y
Fa l l 2 0 0 7
A l u m n i N e w s l e t t e r, Fa l l 2 0 0 7 I s s u e # 13
& Th e n
2 3
EDITOR:
Sara Chadwick
design concept & DESIGN:
CONTRIBUTING designer:
special thanks:
Kate McLean
Rita Daly
Molly Ferguson, Suzanne McCarthy, Kate McLean, Mish McIntyre,
Jessie Schloss
printing:
Reynolds DeWalt, New Bedford, MA
web site: www.suffolk.edu/nesad
N e w s & Ti d b i t s
E d i t or ’ s N ot e
NEWS tidbits
&
Did You Know?
Whatever Happened To…?
Steve Lyons
“Upon leaving The New England School of Art & Design as an adjunct faculty
member in 1987, I went to work for the Boston office of Ligature, a Chicagobased educational development house. As a designer there, I worked with
editors and production staff conceptualizing and producing middle school and
high school textbooks for publishers including Houghton Mifflin and Holt,
Rinehart and Winston. I eventually became Managing Director of the Boston
office, overseeing a staff of 75 people. In 1991, I left Ligature with a colleague to
form DECODE, Inc., (www.decodeinc.com) a graphic design office dedicated to
providing creative services to the educational publishing market. DECODE has
produced textbooks for Houghton Mifflin, Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, Prentice Hall,
Silver Burdett and Ginn, and Holt, Rinehart and Winston, in a variety of content
areas including social studies, US and world history, science, math, literature, and
language arts.
“In 1994, my partner and I moved the company to Seattle, leasing space downtown on the 10th floor of a 14–story building overlooking Elliot Bay and ten
years later, along with other partners, I purchased a three–story, turn–of–the–
century brick building in historic Pioneer Square. DECODE has been operating
there with a staff of four ever since.
“In 2004, I co-founded Platform Gallery (www.platformgallery.com), a commercial contemporary art space dedicated to exhibiting sculpture, painting, works
on paper, installation, photography, and new media. The gallery works with artists
from Seattle, Los Angeles, Toronto, New York, Rhode Island, Wisconsin, and
Illinois. The gallery is located in the gallery district of Pioneer Square and is open
Thursdays to Saturdays, 11am to 5:30pm. One of the missions of Platform is to
take work beyond Seattle and we are participating in upcoming art fairs including
The Affair at the Jupiter Hotel in Portland, Oregon (Sept. 14-16),Year07, a fair
taking place in County Hall in London (Oct. 11-14), and Aqua Art Miami, the
Aqua Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida.
“And with all of that going on, I still maintain a
studio practice working on my own art. I’ve most
recently been working on conceptual drawings
and mixed media on paper and panel. I fondly
remember my teaching days in Boston and refuse
to believe that that part of my life was over 20
years ago!” Steve Lyons §
During the 2006-2007 school year, NESADSU
enrolled 426 art and design majors. 221 were
BFA candidates (108 in Interior Design, 82 in
Graphic Design, and 31 in Fine Arts) and 116
were graduate students (106 in the Master of
Arts program in Interior Design and 10 in the
MA program in Graphic Design). There were
also 12 Certificate students, one Diploma
candidate (the Diploma programs were discontinued in 2004), and 76 continuing education
students.
That same year, we spent $2,145,450 on fulland part-time faculty salaries.
We currently have in school 256 computers,
105 Macs and 151 PC’s, 36 in offices and the
rest in classrooms and other student areas.
Software is updated with every new release,
hardware every three years.
The cost of one roll of paper used in Foundation drawing classes is $60. We use about 30
rolls per school year. That’s $1800.
The NESADSU Library currently holds approximately 10,000 books, 53 periodical
subscriptions and 30,000 slides.
The retail price of one license for the
Adobe Creative Suite Premium Design CS3
is $1,700.00. NESADSU holds 50 licenses. At
retail this would equal $85,000 (yikes!).
The average cost of one ink cartridge is
$28.00. During the 2006-2007 academic year,
NESADSU spent $27,800 on ink and toner
(yikes again!).
The price of one AutoCAD license is $240.
NESADSU holds 75 licenses, costing $18,000
per year.
During the 2006-2007 academic year, we spent
$15,000 on models for figure drawing classes.
Last year, 84 art and design students took
advantage of workshops sponsored by the Ballotti Learning Center at NESADSU.
For 2006-2007, NESADSU’s operating budget
was $5,157,3000.
Who knew? S.C. §
�N e w s & Ti d b i t s
NEWS tidbits
&
NESADSU Successfully Completes
Reaccreditation Process
G r a p h i c D e s i g n St u d e n t
Scores for Lupus
It was formally announced at the annual meeting of the National Association of Schools of Art and Design in Kansas City in October, that The New
England School of Art & Design at Suffolk University has been granted renewal of membership, for a ten-year period of accreditation.This decision
follows the March/April site visit described in the last edition of this magazine.
The focus in the Advertising Design (ADG S208)
course at NESADSU is to develop fully integrated
campaigns—a body of work with a cohesive brand
and campaign message and a look that seamlessly
translates into various print and interactive media
outlets. For their last class project of the Fall 2006
semester, students were tasked with developing
an integrated campaign for the Lupus Foundation
Event logo design by Stormi Knight.
the presentations with other partners within the
organization, Stormi Knight’s campaign was selected
to support the Fall 2007 efforts for the Walk on the
Charles. Her interactive campaign reached out nationally to those affected by Lupus by creating custom artwork to be used throughout the campaign,
and included a poster, booklet, website and banner
work. Knight was then able to work with the class
of New England, a campaign that would increase
awareness about Lupus, an autoimmune disease
affecting more than a million people in the U.S. and
millions more worldwide. Working from a written
strategy provided by the Foundation and detailing specific messaging goals, the students designed
posters, web banners, environmental design pieces,
booklets, and other support pieces to raise awareness about the disease, and to
promote the Lupus Walk on the
Charles supporting efforts towards
finding a cure.
instructor, the client, and various printing venders to
produce the campaign for publication.
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The improvement of NESADSU faculty salaries, security and
advancement.
•
Well-maintained facilities with …many good studio spaces.
•
Arrangement attractive to students who are seeking the broad
resources of a university combined with the specialization of
art and design study.
•
A shared attitude toward student success and small freshman
classes.
•
Improved library support for NESADSU.
•
Expansion of cultural dimension to Suffolk University life.
•
A spirit of warm collegiality pervades both the University and
art/design school administration.
•
The wide-ranging liberal arts courses available to NESADSU
students.
•
NESADSU student access to University services, such as financial aid, counseling, learning center.
Suffolk University administrators including the Dean of
Arts and Sciences and the Provost appear very cognizant of
NESADSU needs and demonstrate willingness to advance the
integration of the art school within the University.”
The primary challenge cited in the Visitors’ Report involved the
need for additional facilities for NESADSU, to accommodate
increasing numbers of students, the specific needs of graduate students, and the need for work spaces for students outside of class.
In addition, the following challenges were mentioned:
NESADSU enjoys a loyal and dedicated faculty, highly committed to student success and who appear to work in a highly
cooperative manner.
Significant quantity of up-to-date computer hardware and software to support computer-dependent educational programs.
•
Evidence of high quality in undergraduate and graduate visual
arts education.
•
Poster design by Stormi Knight.
“The NESAD merger with Suffolk University made eleven
years ago appears to be a strongly supported integration
…(with) many positive results.
•
During the meeting, the Foundation
expressed to the presenting students how “beautiful”, “well thought
out” and “professional” all of the
campaigns were. After reviewing all
•
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With congratulations to Stormi Knight, we present
her work here. Suzanne McCarthy, Instructor §
In hopes of giving at least some of
the students experience presenting
their work to clients, the instructor,
Suzanne McCarthy, contacted the
Lupus Foundation of New England
to request that the class’s best three
projects be considered for production. The class evaluated the work
produced and decided that the
campaigns designed by Nelia Brega,
Stormi Knight, and Megan Clarke
were the strongest for client review.
The students and instructor then
visited the Foundation in order to
present their choices.
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The Visitors’ Report, presented to us in July, summarized the team’s
findings during their four-day visit, and, in all areas, it was stated that
NESADSU appeared “to meet all criteria for all applicable NASAD
standards”, as outlined in the NASAD handbook. The Visitor’s Report ended with a list of institutional strengths and challenges, the
former gratifyingly longer than the latter. We thought you might be
curious to know what they said. Among strengths, the team cited:
•
“The need to attend to the dichotomous views of faculty
and graduate students in regard to the mix of undergraduate
and graduate students in Graphic Design and Interior Design
classes. Grad students appear to view this as a negative aspect
to their programs; faculty members appear to feel that such
blending raises the quality bar for these classes.
•
The visiting team has concerns that the elastic completion time
for admitted MA students—from 30 to 99 credits—may be
unclear to graduate students and may compromise the stated
credit requirements for these graduate programs.
•
Need for further communication to address undergraduate
concerns about scheduling liberal arts requirements to mesh
with art and design classes in light of the University’s change to
4-credit courses.
•
Important to continue to improve art school’s ability to attract
art and design majors with demonstrated aptitude and accomplishment.”
As I said in the last article on the subject of reaccreditation, in the
Spring magazine, the reaccreditation process is long and exhausting and could not have been completed so successfully without the
cooperation of the entire NESADSU community, administrators,
faculty, students and alumni alike. The comments made by the Visiting Team, who have extensive experience reviewing the programs
of the country’s most prestigious art and design schools, should
make all of us—and you—very proud. S.C. §
�NEWS tidbits
&
Artists: Jessie Schloss, Eileen Umba-Neuwinger, and Ali Horeanopou-
NEWS & TIDBITS
NESADSU Preps
Tomorrow’s Students
e · mer · gence
1. the act or process of emerging.
2. an outgrowth, as a prickle, on the surface of a plant.
3. evolution.The appearance of new properties or species in
the course of development or evolution.
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Arduous does not even begin to encompass the tremendous shift in life from student to practicing studio
artist. From developing resumes and portfolios, securing studio work/ live space to facilitating income, it is
not surprising that many compromise the production
of artwork for rent and food. Most critical is the loss of
the peer art community that graduating students have
come to depend upon during their education.
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Recently, some of the past three years’ Fine Arts alumni
have attempted to overcome the stress and pressure
of the first years out of school by developing a critique
group based in the Fort Point area of Boston. This
group aims to support each member to enable the
continued practice of studio art and provide a place of
critical review and experimentation.
The range of subject, material, content and execution
varies greatly and to that end the critique group has
engaged in a collaborative effort to create new works
that require the exchange of work and authorship from
one artist to the next in an attempt to explore the
overall visual language of the community as a whole.
The resulting work is an examination of process and
content at a micro and macro level, so much so that
the work has taken on the distinct appearance of biological and ecological systems, some real, others imagined. The mixture of several artists per piece changes
the visual language of the individual into an emergent
communal discourse.
Emergence is both an examination of the real world
struggle for these artists to establish their studio practice in the Boston community and an introspection of
the micro community of the critique group as it grows
and develops beyond the NESADSU community.
For five weeks over this past summer a
group of twenty-two high school students
and incoming college freshmen participated
in NESADSU’s Pre-College Program.
Guided by professors and adjunct instructors Randal Thurston, Paul Andrade, Matt
Templeton and Bebe Beard, this group of
talented young students explored the visual
vocabulary of art and design while learning
the basics of portfolio preparation.
Working in the School’s studios, students
expanded their knowledge of drawing,
painting and the principles of two- and
three-dimensional design. Our ’07 Pre-College Program participants were introduced
to the vibrant cultural scene here in Boston
through field trips to area museums and
artists’ studios. The program culminated in
a student-organized exhibition highlighting
work produced over the summer.
Summer Class of 2007
Responding to the remarkable success of
and enthusiasm generated by this summer’s
program, Continuing Education has begun
offering Pre-College workshops during
the school year. Adjunct Instructor Matt
Templeton is teaching a five-week Pre-College Portfolio Preparation Workshop this
fall designed to help prepare students to
present their work at Boston’s National
Portfolio Day.
For more information regarding the School
of Art & Design’s Pre-College programs
please contact Karianne Noble, Director
of Continuing Education and Preparatory
Programs, at knoble@suffolk.edu or call
(617) 994-4233. Molly Ferguson §
An exhibition of the critique group’s work will be held
in the White Box Gallery (room 208) at NESADSU
from May 12th until June 27th, 2008. There will be an
opening reception, to which all are invited, on Friday,
May 16th from 5 to 7pm. Mish McIntyre and Jessie Schloss §
All work featured on this poster was created by high school students.
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OVERSEAS
correspondent
Little Cultural Differences
Cultural differences are what make foreign
travel such a wonderful adventure, and they
are what make a country or a city unique
to work and live in. Here are some of the
cultural differences between Paris, France and
anywhere in the Anglo-Saxon world:
The working day. Parisians
Morning commute on the Paris métro.
really want to be Mediterranean. They love to
eat late and stay up late. The problem is waking
up; the morning métro is full of people still
soundly asleep despite being fully clothed for
work. The working day starts later here—usually between 9.00am and 10.00am—and
most people finish work between 6.00pm
and 7.00pm. The 35-hour working week only
applies to those employed by large companies
and government employees (who signed that
into law?). Most people work way in excess of
this figure. If you do the math it is clear something else must take up a part of the day…
The importance of
lunch. Lunch is a right.The French
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Lunch time at the “Quatorze Juillet” bistro.
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will happily work through later in the evenings
if a deadline is looming, but will absolutely not
skip lunch. It lasts between one and two hours,
often it is an event used to discuss business;
it is however sacrosanct. Indeed should you
munch a sandwich at your desk other people
will disparagingly refer to you as having lunch
“a ‘l’anglais” (like the English). At least a third
of Parisians lunch in restaurants and bistros
every day and the remainder of us bring in
creative options from home and stop work
to eat together. Lunch is a social occasion for
everybody and it is the height of bad manners
to start without asking your co-workers if they
are going to join you.
How to approach a
deadline. In December 2006
Anne-Claire and I shared the design work for a
program for an annual film festival. The overall
design was approved; all we were waiting for
was the copious copy to arrive as well as all
those small little program details such as name
of event, venue, time, price, etc., etc. for over
1000 events. The printing deadline was fixed, as
it had to piggyback on to another job so as to
save costs. We waited and we waited. Four days
before the printing deadline the text started to
trickle through… then even I started spotting
the spelling errors (yep, in French) and we
realized that none of the text had been proof
read. So the text went back to be checked and
a committee from the festival camped downstairs from our office fixing spelling errors on
the printed pages, meaning we had to correct
them electronically. In the end, with no leadership and even less organization Anne-Claire
and I worked from 9.00am to 11.00pm (without lunch) for three days to accommodate the
festival committee. This last minute approach
happens all the time. To deliver another project
on time another member of our team got on
his motorbike and sped through the streets of
Paris; he got the official stamp of receipt just 2
minutes before the deadline.
Fear of commitment.
The French fear of commitment and their
desire to leave everything open should suit my
personality very well, but as in all such cases
the most extreme party retains the behavior and forces the other party into inverse
behavior. I have been pushed to the inverse
as I try to work with Jean-Louis. One recent
project was (spéculatif of course) to develop a
POS for a company selling “Coffrets Cadeaux”
(www.wonderbox.fr). I did my research—I
photographed existing POS, looked at various
designs and came up with five or six options. I wanted, I needed, his direction. With
every design I showed him his response was
“pourqoui pas?” (why not?). I have to say I
found this distinctly unhelpful. In the end I
pushed and pushed and pushed for him to give
me a decision—he appeared to be in pain, and
immediately after making a decision went out
for lunch to forget all about it.
Fashion. Using public transport and
doing a lot of walking is my opportunity to
observe the latest fashions and styles. On the
métro and the bus I get to see the small but
essential details, mainly because the French
concept of personal space is non-existent. Thus
I have learned how to tie a scarf depending on
the time of year, what earrings are currently
fashionable and how to wear the collar of
a simple shirt so as to look decidedly chic.
A point to note is that Parisian women are
thinner than most, which of course aids their
ability to look good in almost everything. Two
other essential building blocks to acquiring
Parisian style are the requirement to wear
heels on your shoes (the sneaker-clad commuter is a rare sight) and to walk proudly with
a large designer bag and a good designer coat.
Ordinary French women do actually shop in
Hermes, Lancel and Chanel if only once every
five years. For the first time in my life my first
waking thought is what to wear, even at the
weekend!
POS proposal for “Wonderbox”, 2007
How much vacation?
As I write this (early September 2007) I, and
the majority of Parisians, have just returned
from a month of vacation. Everything you may
have heard is true. The city sleeps as millions
head for their second homes in the countryside or the coast. Until recently very few
French people ventured abroad, and if they
did it was to French-speaking places such as
the Reunion Islands near to Madagascar or
Martinique in the Caribbean. But this summer
has been a washout for northern Europe since
June and I heard much French being spoken as
I lay on the beach in very sunny Spain. Now,
after a month off work, we are all back, excited
to be in the city that has regained the buzz
but actively looking forward to the next main
vacation, which is Toussaint (a.k.a. Halloween). In total the French come second to the
Germans with an annual vacation entitlement
of 7.5 weeks. Being freelance I can take what
vacation I like, but there again if I don’t work
then I don’t earn any money to go on vacation!
Kate McLean §
“Polar dans laVille” film festival program
�1962 – Dan McCarron (Graphic
Design) continues to keep up a heady
schedule of design work for Harvard, his
former employer. “I am in the process of producing a book on decorated papers for the
Department of Graphic Arts at Houghton
Library at Harvard, which will be published
this fall and distributed by the Harvard
University Press. I am also working on an
exhibit that celebrates the 75th anniversary
of Memorial Church at Harvard as well as
the 400th birthday of John Harvard. … The
exhibit will be mounted at Pusey Library in
Harvard Yard this fall. Finally, I am producing a DVD to celebrate the 45th reunion of
the Class of 1962, Harvard College…..All
great projects that I truly enjoy working on!
Who knew that, when I sat in a Huntington
Avenue classroom at [NESA] in the early
sixties, I would get to do such interesting
projects for Harvard University 45 years
later!” You can rdach Dan at dmccaron@
wordtechcorp.com.
Please be sure to send your updated information
to Sara Chadwick at schadwic@suffolk.edu (for
our database and/or for publication) and also, if
you wish, to classnotes@suffolk.edu for the Suffolk
Alumni Magazine.
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1971 – Millicent (Busse) Swaine (Advertising Design) got in touch with us the
other day, wondering what we were up to.
Millie worked in advertising for Sears after
graduating from NESA, then had three children so gave up work to stay home and care
for them. Now she keeps busy “doing the
décor for parties, theatre, CET-TV and nonprofit organizations. I have been doing wedding planning too. Keeps me busy. I would
love to hear what others have done…I’m
sure it’s great things!” You can reach Millie at
millieswaine@aol.com.
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1973 – Ellyn (Greenberg) Moller
(Fashion Illustration) is currently the
Director of the Akillian Gallery at Massasoit
Community College in Canton. She has also
served on the Board of Trustees for the Milton Art Museum for the past eight years, the
last four as Chairman, and has been named
Event Chairman for the 2008 Arts Affair on
the Boardwalk at Marina Bay in Quincy. In
addition to all of this, Ellyn continues to take
on freelance design projects as well as manage her husband’s entertainment business,
at the same time taking courses toward her
degree at Massasoit. You can reach Ellyn at
emoller@massasoit.mass.edu.
1974 – Steve Hodgdon (Graphic
Design) recently organized a min-reunion
in August of some of the members of the
Class of 1974, who currently live in New
Hampshire. Gail (Herbert) Kimball (Fashion
Illustration) and Jim Hankard (Fine Arts) attended, though Fred Durham (Fine Arts) and
his wife Connie (Wadleigh) Durham (1973
Fashion Illustration) were not able to attend.
They all met at Steve’s house in Contoocook
“and had a wonderful afternoon. Sorry I
don’t have any pictures to attach…we were
having too much fun catching up!” Well, Gail
supplied us with this one, which is great. If
you can offer Steve information on any other
members of the Class of 1974 (see the three
below, located since), I’m sure there’ll be another get-together in the offing. Contact Steve
at shodgdon@comcast.net.
1974 – Ronald Holl (Graphic Design)
is the Director of Operations/Art Director at LSHD Advertising, of which he is a
partner, in Chicopee, MA. LSHD, in business
since 1986, is western Massachusetts’ largest
advertising agency. You can reach Ron at ron.
holl@lshd.com.
1974 – William Kenney (Graphic
Design) is the Vice President/Creative of
BrandEquity International, with headquarters
in Newton. BrandEquity is a visual marketing and brand communication firm, which
was established in 1960 and which has such
clients as Staples, Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare,
Au Bon Pain, Massachusetts General Hospital,
Sheraton and many others. Check them out
at www.brandequity.com and contact Bill at
kenneydesign@comcast.net.
1974 – Stephen Krupsky (Graphic
Design) is a partner in Adrenaline Design
in Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA. Adrenaline
Design is a marketing-oriented design firm
that specializes in brand identity, logo development, package design, web design, etc.
Check them out at www.adrenaline-design.
com and get in touch with Steve at stevek@
adrenaline-design.com.
1979 – Christine Jellow (Graphic
Design) has parlayed her years of graphic
design experience and her coursework in
the Masters program in Interior Design into
a position with Urban Archaeology in the
Boston Design Center. Urban Archaeology is
a high-end lighting, bath and tile manufacturer
and retailer, with a wide range of top-quality
and beautifully designed products. Check out
their website at www.urbanarchaeology.com
and contact Christine at c.jellow@comcast.net.
1981 – Eli Cedrone (General Art)
had three of her paintings accepted into
the Guild of Boston Artists show at their
Newbury Street gallery in August. This
regional, juried exhibition featured the best
of representational painting and sculpture by
both emerging and established artists living in
New England. In addition, Eli’s painting “Journey’s End” was awarded Best in Show at the
Pembroke (MA) Arts Festival, also in August.
You can contact Eli at artfulhand@comcast.
net. Also, check out her online newsletter at
www.elicedrone.com for classes, exhibitions,
etc. Lots of news!
1983 – John Gonnella (Graphic Design) left Digitas about a year-and-a-half ago
and is starting his own “web branding gig”,
called Truth and Soul, Inc. (www.truthandsoulinc.com). John will be moving shortly
to the South End, “to pursue my painting, in
downtime…I always bump into James Kraus
[1982 General Art] and also saw Audrey
Goldstein last week”. You can get in touch
with John at johnny.g@truthandsoulinc.com.
1983 – Paul Harrington (General
Art) had an exhibition of his hand-painted
silkscreens during the month of September
at The Savings Bank, Lakeside Office in Wakefield. Paul’s web gallery, of drawings, paintings and sculpture, can be found at www.
luminism.net. You can reach Paul at paulharrington@luminism.net.
M o r e C l a s s N ot e s
C l a s s N ot e s
CLASS
notes
1985 – Merle Craig (Interior
Design) recently sent us a contribution to
NESADSU’s J.W.S. Cox Scholarship Fund, for
which we are very grateful! She is currently
on the faculty at Endicott College in Beverly,
as an Assistant Professor of Interior Design
(“I’m enjoying it very much”), and still owns
her own ID firm, Merle Craig Interiors in
Durham, NH. “I see quite a bit of Marge Lee
(1984 Interior Design) [also an Assistant
Professor at Endicott] and I also see Kris
Orr (1984 Interior Design) and Anne Lenox
(1987 Interior Design) occasionally. We
share the same birthdate and usually have
breakfast together sometime around September 11th. We discovered this when we
were assigned to the same ‘contract furniture
research committee’ in our sophomore year
and have gotten together many times since.”
You can reach Merle at mcraig@endicott.edu.
1987 – Deven Winters (Fine Arts)
emailed us In May to say he and his wife
were packing for a move back to Texas, this
time to Mesquite, where Deven will be taking a job at id Software, a pioneer in FPS PC
game titles. As a designer, he’ll be creating
levels, gameplay elements and some basic art
“for the artists to make beautiful. I want to
go there to be able to learn from the masters, develop my next gen art and become
even more well-rounded.” Deven also says
that he’ll be starting a children’s book this
fall with his wife as the writer. “The newest
member of our family is getting big…and is
almost as tall as his four-and-a-half-year-old
brother. My oldest son Joshua can read and
write a little bit. He also reconfigured my
X-Box to read Chinese and it took us two
hours to undo it. He’s is getting really good
at games and problem solving.” Deven is also
thinking of becoming a teacher of 3D graphics and perhaps starting his own company as
well. You can reach him at arxangel@gmail.
com and check out his website at www.
arxangel.net.
1989 – Dave Swanson (Graphic Design) recently got in touch with us, looking
for some freelance graphic design help for
the summer. (Editor’s Note: If you are interested in either full-time or freelance work,
please be sure to fill out the Alumni Update
Form on the NESADSU alumni page on
our website.) Dave, who is the Director of
Design for Fidelity Investments in Smithfield,
RI, lives in Foster with his wife and three
children, Zoe (2), Max (6) and Clara (4). As
Dave says, “Things are going well. We all have
our health and a routine. It’s just non-stop,
taking care of a house, a dog and three small
children, then trying to fit in my own stuff….
I’ve redefined patience. It’s not like the old
days when the world revolved around ME.
It has many more benefits but there was a
learning curve for me and still is to some
extent, but I’m getting better at it. I’m trying
not to forget the old worn out saying ‘They
grown up fast’. I remain conscious of that and
very much enjoy the simplicity of it all and
fostering good memories. Which reminds me
of another saying, ‘If I had a nickel” for every
time someone with grown children says that
to me, I’d be a millionaire!’ You can get in
touch with Dave at david.swanson@fmr.com.
1993 – Steinunn Jonsdottir (Interior
Design) returned to her native Iceland in
2004, bought
a farm in
northern
Iceland that
same year,
with an eye
toward starting an international art center there, earned
an MBA from Reykjavik University in 2006,
and started the Baer Art Center (www.baer.
is) in May of this year. She has since moved
into a new home and had a third child (Baldur, now one, brother to Nanna Katrin, now
13, and Jon Bragi, now 10). Take a look at the
Baer Art Center’s website and see whether
you might be interested in a residency. You
can also reach Steinunn at sj@sj.is.
1995 – Scott Truesdale (Graphic
Design) has left Malchow, Schlackman,
Hoppey, Cooper
Partners in Washington,
DC and has taken a
position as Vice President/Creative for the
Mack/Crounse Group
in Alexandria, VA. Both
are political advertising
firms, a field Scott has
been deeply involved in
for a number of years.
The Mack/Crounse
website cites Scott as
“one of the most experienced creative talents
in the political business.
He brings a unique and
fresh view to creative
and is a great addition
to our team.”. You can reach Scott at struesdale@mackcrounse.com.
1997 – Todd Fitz (Graphic Design)
is still living in Georgetown, MA and has a
design office in Newburyport. His former
company, Firecracker, has morphed into Fuel
73, which is heavily focused on the publishing industry, specifically magazines, and more
specifically Ocean Home Magazine (www.
oceanhomemag.com), northshore magazine (www.nshoremag.com), and Our Place
Magazine. You can reach Todd at todd@
fuel73.com.
1997 – Ken Harney (Graphic Design)
is still in New York, but is now the Deputy
Art Director for DNR Magazine, a Conde
Nast publication on men’s apparel, fashion
retailing and design. For fun he’s into Thai
boxing and is working on his blue belt in
Brazilian jiu-jitsu. That’s for exercise; he also
does yoga for relaxation. You can reach Ken
at kharney1@yahoo.com.
�1998 – Ann Borwick (Fine Arts) has
moved from Seattle across the lake to Bainbridge Island, where she now owns a B&B.
Called Furin-Oka (“Wind-Bell Hill”) Futon
& Breakfast, it occupies a private, detached
house and garden built in traditional Japanese
style at the rear of the property on which
she lives, accommodates two people, and has
a tatami room as well as a kitchenette and
a bath with a Japanese soaking tub. Check it
out at www.futonandbreakfast.com. Besides
all of that, Ann’s gotten heavily into gardening,
which the lush northwest climate makes a
pleasure. You can reach Ann at afborwick@
yahoo.com.
Please be sure to send your updated information
to Sara Chadwick at schadwic@suffolk.edu (for
our database and/or for publication) and also, if
you wish, to classnotes@suffolk.edu for the Suffolk
Alumni Magazine.
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1998 – Melissa Horvath (Graphic
Design) started a new job in May, as Senior
Interactive Art Director at VML in New
York. VML is an interactive ad agency with
such clients as Colgate-Palmolive, which will
be Melissa’s main account, Burger King and
TurboTax. Part of the WPP network, they
collaborate with sister agency Y&R on crossmedia campaigns. In addition to the new job,
Melissa is also making plans for her November 9th wedding. Check out her website at
www.melissahorvath.com and get in touch
with her at melissa@melissahorvath.com.
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1998 – Scott MacGillivray (Fine Arts)
has increased his family by one (son, Odin,
was born on March 19th) and moved them
all to Indiantown, FL, where they have a 60acre ranch. On said ranch are four children
(presumably not within fences), “and a whole
menagerie of animals, including four horses,
three goats, a llama, a pot-bellied pig, three
dogs, more cats then I care to count, and a
few other small critters”. Scott also started a
new job in August, “teaching graphic design
at a vocational high school in a maximumsecurity prison. It sounds like a challenge and
I’m excited.” Send congratulations to Scott at
smacdad101@aol.com.
2001 – Helen (Carroll) Johnson (Fine
Arts) recently wrote to tell us all her news.
“I was married in 2005 so my last name is
now Johnson. Directly after graduating Suffolk I worked at Kids Are People School, a
multicultural and inclusive school in Boston,
first as a teacher’s aide and then as a teacher.
I received my Masters from Lesley University in Art Education in 2006…and began
working at the Children’s Learning Center
in Dorchester as a pre-school teacher. April
20th I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl
Alexandria! She was born seven weeks early
so she had a scary start but is doing great
now. Just recently my husband and I were
accepted into the Salvation Army’s School
for Officers’ Training. After two years of
schooling we will be ordained ministers, so
we are currently preparing to move to New
York….The newsletters have been going to
my parents’ house for three years, but that
was fine because we’ve moved three times
in the last year and a half!…It’s great to see
how the school is growing and what is happening!” You can reach Helen at helen_johnson@mrmumu.net.
2001 – Laura Glen (Interior Design)
has returned to her roots in Louisiana, in the
wake of hurricane Katrina. “I’m still working
on projects throughout New England (with
one studio in Wellesley, MA) but have my
main studio back home in New Orleans.
Katrina was devastating to my family and
friends and I just need to be here to help
rebuild….If you ever need an article on New
Orleans and the rebirth, I would be happy to
provide my insight, having evacuated, rebuilt
and worked with clients there.” We’re taking
Laura up on her kind offer and hope to have
an article for you in the next edition of “And
Then”. In the meantime, you can get in touch
with Laura at lauraglen@comcast.net.
2002 – Erin Fay (Graphic Design) has
moved to North Hampton, NH and is working as a kindergarten teacher at the Keystone
School in Chelmsford, MA. You can reach
Erin at erin_fay@msn.com.
2002 – Jonathan Hoysradt (Graphic
Design) emailed Jen Fuchel the other day
with an update on what he’s been doing
since leaving his first job, at 360Kid, after
graduation. “My quest for full-time work led
me to several non-design-related positions
including the mailroom of a financial company, the processing center for a mortgage
company, and a bouncer at a biker bar (just
kidding about that last one!). Oddly enough, I
found my niche at a computer company that
originally hired me as a temp to manage the
sales database. They found out I had some
design skills and asked me to update their
website (which, I think, was originally composed by a blind man using PowerPoint), so it
was uphill from there. …Soon enough I was
the graphic designer for the company…I’ve
also become the “Web Manager”, “Marketing
Manager”, and “Email Manager”. They hired
another graphic designer to work under me
[though] I’m still responsible for designing
most of the printed material. And while the
other designer manages the website, I do
all the Flash animation.” As Jonathan says, it’s
been a good way to gain a lot of experience
in a lot of different areas, especially management and computers. You can reach Jonathan
at jhoysradt02@comcast.net.
2002 – Nicole Wang (Graphic Design)
has relocated to Emeryville, CA and has
taken a position with Arc Worldwide in San
Francisco. Arc Worldwide deals in promotional, interactive, direct and shopper marketing, and is owned by the Publicis Group
which also owns Digitas, Nicole’s former employer. Nicole’s move followed a two-month
European vacation (“After working three
years straight in a fast-paced agency like that,
I felt I really needed a loooong vacation!”).
You can reach her at nwang@macbox.com.
2003 - Kseniya Galper (Graphic
Design) had her acrylic painting “Eugene”
chosen as Best in Show at the Quincy Art
Association’s Artsfest in September. There
were over 250 entries for this annual juried
show and it was the first time that she had
ever submitted her work anywhere, “so I was
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absolutely shocked when I was told that I’d
won “Best in Show :)”. Kseniya and Eugene
have just spent two weeks in Rome (“overwhelmingly beautiful”), perhaps celebrating
her success. You can reach her at kgalper@
gmail.com.
2004 – Juliana Abislaiman (Graphic
Design) has a new job with McCann
Erickson in Puerto Rico, having left Arteaga &
Arteaga Advertising. Contact her at abislaimanjuliana@hotmail.com.
2004 – Maryam Beydoun
(Graphic Design) caught up
with our designer Kate McLean
(2004 Graphic Design) in Paris
in July. Maryam was with Promoseven, a design firm in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, then moved
to McCann Erickson, but has
since left and is freelancing while
she decides whether to return
to school. Maryam spends several weeks a year in France, with
some time for shopping in Paris.
She and Kate had breakfast, “then wandered
down to the Musee Quai Branly to take
photos”. You can reach Maryam at maryambeydoun@mac.com.
2004 – Victoria Masters (Graphic
Design) has left Charity Folks and is now a
Junior Creative Director at Creative Gorillas,
also in New York. Creative Gorillas is an advertising and marketing firm with a number
of clients in the real estate and development field. Check out their work at www.
creativegorillas.com and get in touch with Vic
at vicmasters@gmail.com. You can also see
both her professional work and her stunning
photography at www.victoriamasters.com.
2005 – Peter Ferreira (Graphic
Design) is working as a Senior Graphic
Designer for Cox Communications in West
Warwick, RI. In addition, he has his own
design firm, called Kemelyen Media Lab, with
two freelance artists working with him on
various projects in print, multimedia, corporate and web design. Check their website
at www.kmedialab.com and email Peter at
peter.ferreira@cox.com.
2005 – Jennifer Kokx (MA in Interior
Design) has taken a position with the Boston design firm Gauthier-Stacy, a residential
interiors firm with clients around the country.
You can reach Jennifer at jkokx@comcast.net.
2006 – Debra Folz (Interior Design)
has left her job at Tsoi/Kobus & Associates
in Cambridge and has enrolled in the MFA
program in Furniture Design at Rhode Island
School of Design in Providence. Deb’s hoping to teach furniture design one day, perhaps
at NESADSU. You can get in touch with her
at debba5@aol.com.
2006 – Jill Garzik (Interior Design)
has recently taken a position with the
architectural and interiors firm Tsoi/Kobus &
Associates in Harvard Square, where she is
currently working on a project for Children’s
Hospital. At TKA, she joins Laura Nathanson
(2006 Graphic Design) who is a graphic
designer for the firm. You can reach Jill at
jgarzik@hotmail.com.
2006 – Kelly Ginn (Interior Design) is
working for the Architectural Heritage Foundation, located in Old City Hall in Boston.
AHF is an historic preservation development
firm and a pioneer in adaptive reuse since its
founding in 1966. You can get in touch with
Kelly at keli2342@aol.com.
2006 – Meaghan Moynahan (Interior
Design) has left the Patterson Group and
is now a Project Manager at Kitchen Living in
the Boston Design Center. You can reach her
at meaghanm@kitchen-living.com.
2006 – Kelly Pearson (Fine Arts)
was among a group of artists featured in
a sculpture show at the Aaron Gallery in
Washington, DC. Her steelwork sculpture,
Exterior no. 7 (2005), was on exhibit during
the month of October. You can reach Kelly at
kmartypea@hotmail.com.
2006 – Lisa Sobolewski (Interior
Design) moved to New York in June and
is currently working at Dupoux Design, a
firm with “cross-market expertise in the
fields of hospitality, real estate, construction
management and brand identity”. Dupoux
has recently expanded their operations to
include the Asia market, opening Dupoux
Design Asia in Taipei. Check out their website
at www.dupouxdesign.com and contact Lisa
at yasuadio@yahoo.com.
2007 – Jessica Aponte (Interior Design) is currently working at Eric Nelson Architects in Charlestown, a firm that provides
a wide range of design services for both new
buildings and significant renovations. You can
reach Jessica at skittja22@yahoo.com.
2007 – Billie Jo Baril (BFA Fine Arts
2000, MA in Interior Design) is working
as an interior designer at Eric Roseff Designs
in Boston. Eric Roseff is a full-service residential and commercial design firm. You can
reach Billie Jo at barilb@hotmail.com.
2007 – Erica Edwards (Interior Design) is NESADSU’s latest addition to the
workforce at Duffy Design Group in Boston,
where Atsu Ishikawa (Interior Design 2000)
was before she left to join Kahila Hogarth
(Interior Design 2006) at Nannette Lewis
Design in Chestnut Hill. You can reach Erica
at lordy7_7@hotmail.com, Atsu at superatsu@hotmail.com, and Kahila at kahila329@
hotmail.com.
2007 – Rebecca Emanuel (Interior
Design) has joined Barbara Sherman (Interior Design 1994) at Wilson Butler Architects,
a Boston firm specializing in designing for
the arts and entertainment. You can reach
Rebecca at raemanuel@gmail.com.
2007 – Nico Flannery-Pitcher (MA in
Interior Design) is currently working
at Steffian Bradley Architects in Boston. In
addition, Nico was recently married to Dave
Pitcher, an industrial designer with Rose
Displays Ltd. in Salem. Dave, who designs
signage hardware, and Nico have bought and
are currently renovating a house in Swampscott and hope to be in by October. Send
your congratulations to Nico and Dave at
nicoflannery@hotmail.com.
�2007 – Jade Jump (Graphic Design) has
landed a job at the Design Studio at Monitor in Cambridge, where she is a graphic
designer. The Design Studio has such clients
as MIT, Brandeis and Innovation Management
Inc., providing such services as marketing,
illustration, web design, logos and book
design. Check them out at www.designstudioatmonitor.com and get in touch with Jade
at jadejump@hotmail.com.
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2007 – Kimberly Kelly (Interior Design) and Danielle Tappis (MA in Interior Design) have both joined the Boston
office of Perkins & Will, the internationally-based design firm offering “innovations
in architecture, planning, interiors, branded
environments and strategy”. You can reach
Kim at kimakelly@gmail.com and Danielle at
danielle_paige@hotmail.com.
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2007 – Jessica Koff (MA in Interior
Design) has taken a position as an interior
designer with Bergmeyer in Boston. As such,
she is continuing another long-time tradition
with NESADSU graduates, many of whom
have passed through Bergmeyer’s door in
recent years. You can reach Jessie at jesskoff@
gmail.com.
2007 – Courtney Mitchell (Graphic
Design) has moved to New York and taken
a job as a Art Assistant at Women’s Wear
Daily, a division of Conde Nast and Fairchild
Publications. Women’s Wear Daily is a fashion
and business newspaper and “we also put
out dozens of magazines and supplements
every year. I deal primarily with the trafficking
of all the artwork and I also have been able
to design quite a lot so far. I wanted to thank
you [Laura Golly, to whom the email was
sent] because after I took your electronic
publications class I realized how much I love
publication design!” You can reach Courtney
at coumitch@verizon.net.
brown.com, Allison at allisonwrig@gmail.com,
Eduardo at eduardo_meza@gensler.com, and
Vy at vlan0525@yahoo.com.
2007 – Julianna Mongello (MA in Interior Design) and Pamela Muldowney
(MA in Interior Design) have both taken
positions with Cannon Design, an architectural, engineering and planning firm in Boston. You can reach Julianna at juliemongello@
hotmail.com and Pamela at pmuldowney@
mac.com.
2007 – Kaitlin Palaza (Interior Design)
has taken a job at Duncan Hughes Interiors
in Boston. Duncan Hughes is a full service
interior design firm specializing in commercial
and residential design. You can contact Kaitlin
at kaitlinpalaza@gmail.com.
2007 – Andrea Morin (Graphic
Design) is a Regional Marketing Coordinator at Great Source Education Group in
Wilmington, MA. Great Source, a division
of Houghton Mifflin Company, publishes
alternative, resource-based K-12 educational
materials. You can contact her at andrea_morin@hmco.com.
2007 – Naomi Nottingham (MA
in Interior Design) has joined fellow
NESADSU alumni Erika Brown (MA in
Interior Design 2004), Allison Wright (MA in
Interior Design 2006), Eduardo Meza (MA in
Interior Design 2003), and Vy Horwood (Interior Design 2003) at Gensler (all in Boston
except for Vy who is in the Arlington, VA office). With offices around the world, Gensler
is a multi-faceted firm that handles design
problems of all kinds, from city planning to
interior and graphic design. Check them out
at www.gensler.com. Contact Naomi at
naomi74@earthlink.net, Erika at riki@riki-
2007 – Elizabeth Olver (Interior
Design) has taken a position with TMD
Designs, a recently established firm in North
Hampton, NH. You can reach Liz at liz.olver@
gmail.com.
2007 – Helen Principio (Interior
Design) is a kitchen and bath designer at
the Expo Design Center in Burlington, MA.
You can reach her at hprincipio@yahoo.com.
2007 – Caitlin Ryan (Interior Design)
is an interior designer with JFS Design Studio
in Boston. JFS specializes in residential and
hospitality design. You can reach Caitlin there,
at caitlin@jfsdesignstudio.com.
2007 – Karen Urosevich (MA in
Interior Design) has joined the residential
design firm of Leslie Fine Interiors in Boston’s
Back Bay. You can reach Karen at karenurosevich@hotmail.com.
2007 – Shauna Wymyczak (Interior
Design) has taken a position at ADD, Inc. in
Cambridge, a firm that specializes in architecture, interior design, planning and branding.You
can reach Shauna at wymyczak@yahoo.com
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I just got the spring newsletter today and I am so sad
Olympia was considered a kook while she was at-
“I’ve been thinking about you guys over at NESA and
because I didn’t know Charles Giuliano retired! I was
tending BU’s theater arts school…but she was a good
realized I haven’t sent you a picture of the kids yet
reading the gallery schedule and I totally would have
actress. I was amazed when she suddenly started
gone to the reception. I was wondering why I would
appearing in movies, etc. Everyone from BU and
have just gotten the newsletter now?
NESA used to take a morning break and have lunch in
This came from Amy Joyce (Graphic Design
the cafeteria….I don’t remember anyone socializing
2000) and arrived on July 5th
with her except for a Greek girl who was in fashion
I had a feeling I was going to have to answer
for this and you all have my deepest apologies.
We have never had a firm publication deadline
for the newsletter (just sometime during the fall
and spring semesters) and all I can say is that
this semester several things conspired to make the
newsletter late in getting to you. First of all, the
NASAD reaccreditation took up an enormous
amount of time. I not only researched and wrote
the entire self-study (way over 300 pages of text
plus exhibits), but planned and saw to completion the three-day site visit. By the time that
was all over, we were into April.Then I got sick,
perhaps because the site visit coincided with the
first symptoms and there was no way I could stay
home and sleep! So I was out for a couple of
weeks and way behind on everything else by the
time I got back.Then Kate McLean, our designer,
was enjoying a very busy schedule herself. So,
one thing led to another and we were late. I’m
especially sorry as I know there are probably a
number of you who would have attended Charles’
party and did not know about it. At this late
date, all I can offer you is his email address
(charles_giuliano@yahoo.com) so that you can
write him and tell him….well, whatever you
wish to tell him.
design at NESA. I think her name was Athena.” [Good
THANKS FOR THE BLURB
said ‘Let’s skip this afternoon and go to the ball game.’
memory, James. That was probably Athena Doukakes,
class of 1957 and a Fashion Design major.)
“I was one of the ex-GI’s who were attending
NESA….Four of us lived together on Huntington
Avenue: Frank Raneo, Joe Almasian, Dick LaRoche and
me. Frank was one of the most talented of anyone I
went to school with. He was working for Remick’s
of Quincy while he was going to school, doing all the
newspaper ads for them. [Actress] Lee Remick was
the owner’s daughter. Frank promised to tell us when
she was around and set it up so we could meet her.
Never happened…. I always remember Frank had a
great sense of style. He always looked like one of his
ads. He’d also give us a critique when we dressed up
to go out. He also said two sport coats and three pair
of pants were all you need. I’m still using his advice!”
“Our life and anatomy instructor was John DanaBastian. He looked like Picasso. His favorite remark
gratulate you and the staff on the great articles and
work that you all continue to do. I’ve been busy taking care of the kids at home and also doing interior
design work. I just completed a Hookah Bar/Lounge
in Allston, the Nile Lounge…. It was a lot of fun creating and implementing the design.” George is also now
working as a teacher’s aide in the kindergarten at the
he took all of my watercolor brushes away from me
so I would ‘loosen up’…. I had a JWS Cox original
[watercolor]. Too bad I threw it out when I packed
to come home for the summer!… I bought a book
about Bill last summer. I never knew until then how
famous he had become. He had some of his work in
the Museum of Fine Arts when I was in school.”
“During my first year at NESA one of my classmates
I got my latest newsletter the other day and just
That was the first major league game I ever saw.
got the chance to sit down and read it. Another
September 1954. I was a Yankees fan at the time….
top-notch edition. Thanks for the blurb [a class note].
and used to go to the games when the Yankees were
The wording was perfect. I should have gotten to it
in town. Then, rather than risk getting beaten up by
[writing it myself] but the good news is I have been
Boston fans, I changed sides.
Bleacher seats were $1.50 at the time and Pinky Higgins was the manager…. Sometimes there were only
mer is going well and see you soon.
a few thousand people at the game…I remember
James Kraus (General Art 1982)
Mickey Mantle coming onto the field and talking to
the fans in the bleachers. I don’t think there is a Major
Barbara (Paine) Lyons of the NESA class of 1943 (Fashion
Illustration). Barbara was one of five alumnae, graduates of 1943
and 1944, who were honored at NESADSU’s 75th anniversary gala at
the Institute of Contemporary Art in November of 1998. Barbara was
originally from Randolph, MA. After graduating from NESA, she worked
as a fashion illustrator for a Boston department store, where she met her
future husband, Richard Lyons. She retired from Raytheon Corporation’s
publications department in 1989. Barbara is survived by two sons, Jeffrey
and Frederic Lyons, eight grandchildren and four great grandchildren.
I also just got the new newsletter and wanted to con-
favorite instructors was JWS Cox. I remember that
volunteer work that I never got to it. Hope the sum-
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of
[Editor’s Note: George and his partner, Joe (Suffolk
MPA 1998, JD 2000), adopted two more children
from Liberia in 2005. Now their family is made up
of Luke (age 5) and Noelle (4 1/2), plus Noah (4)
and Jocasta (2), who arrived in August of 2006.]
was ‘Make it go ‘round! Make it go ‘round!’ One of my
so busy with work, Little League [coaching] and other
Pa s s ag e s
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2007 – Jakob Grauds (Graphic Design)
took a job in June as a Graphic Designer
for Private Label Brands at CVS Corporate
Headquarters in Woonsocket, RI. “The job is
incredible, I get to be creative every day, and
I am learning an immense amount (not to
mention I now have a huge name like CVS
on my resume).” Before finishing at NESADSU, Jake worked as a Contributing Editor
on the new College of Arts and Sciences
magazine at Suffolk, contributing artwork and
photography along with past and present
students Jade Jump, Alison Balcanoff, Kevin
Banks, Colleen Barrett, Jeannie Belozersky,
Margaret Furlong, Matteo Gulla, Catherine
Headen, Kayla Hicks, Fanny Lau, Laura
Nathanson, Lisa Raad, Jessie Schloss, Eileen
Umba and Joanna Winters. You can reach
Jake at inhousejake@yahoo.com.
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EVERYDAY LIFE…
I’ve also been emailing back and forth with
James Towslee (Advertising Design 1957), who
found us on the web and has been filling me in
on things he remembers from his days at NESA.
Here, from several emails, are some tidbits:
“Have any of the students from my era mentioned
that we used to have coffee every morning with a
future Academy Award winner, Olympia Dukakis?…
Leaguer today who would be able to get out of the
locker room, much less play, with the pain he must
have endured. I saw a picture of him once after he
had been taped up so he could play. He looked like a
mummy!… At least I’ve lived long enough to see the
Sox win a World Series.”
James Towslee (Advertising Design 1957)
Johnson School in Nahant, where the children are
enrolled. He would love to hear from classmates so
please email him at gsyrigos@comcast.net.
George Syrigos (Interior Design 2002)
THANKS AGAIN
“Just wanted to drop a note and say thanks again for
including us in the last alumni newsletter. It’s always a
kick to see our stuff in print! Thanks for the support!”
Lianne and Paul (and Gryffin) Stoddard
(Graphic Design 1992), regarding the article
in the Spring alumni magazine on Swirly
Designs and Yankee magazine publicity.
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Local veteran was a mapmaker for the U.S. Navy in World War II
By James A. Kimble, Staff writer
SALEM, N.H. — Her role in helping to capture Iwo Jima was something she never told her husband or three children.
Now 83, a humble and soft-spoken Mary Habib still is reluctant to
go on about it. Her husband, Al, 86, shakes his head that he’s only
now learning how important his wife’s role was in World War II.
“She didn’t like to brag to the family,” he said, sitting at the couple’s
kitchen table. “I didn’t know about this until three weeks ago. We’ve
been married since 1950.”
Mary Habib softly adds with a smirk, “There’s some things I don’t tell.”
Mary Habib worked on a map used by the U.S. military in the critical
battle for Iwo Jima.That invasion ended with one of the most famous
moments in World War II, when five Marines and a sailor raised an
American flag atop the island’s highest point, Mount Suribachi.
Photographer Joe Rosenthal immortalized the flag raising with his
famous, posed, photograph — which became a topic of the recent
Clint Eastwood movie “Flags of Our Fathers.” While seeing a commercial for the movie on television, Mary Habib mentioned in front
of her oldest son, Bill, 55, she had worked on the Navy’s map for
the invasion.
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This summer I had a call from former NESAD faculty member, Ed Germano, who told me that he had seen, on Fox TV, a story about a woman
who had served her country in World War II, by drawing maps for the invasion of Iwo Jima. Ed had noticed, while the story was being told, that the
camera had panned over a NESA diploma and he let me know he was going
to investigate. After a little detective work, through the mediums of both
television and newspaper, we found the story of Mary (McCluskey) Habib, a
1943 graduate of NESA. We are reprinting her story with the kind permission of the Eagle-Tribune Publishing Company and Mary Habib.
It was an incredible revelation for Bill Habib of North Andover,
who began peppering his mother with questions. “Then she went
into the next room and came out with a book and scrapbook,” Bill
Habib said. “That was the first time I ever saw it. I knew generally
of her naval background, her deployment and that she served as
a naval officer, but I didn’t know the extent of it.” The surprises
then came like one gigantic wave after another. Despite her years
of silence, Mary Habib kept a detailed record of her two and a half
years working as a Navy petty officer in the Washington, D.C., area.
Upon being honorably discharged from the Navy on July 22, 1946,
she was given a replica of the map of Iwo Jima she helped create
with her name embossed on it.
A ringed binder holds dozens of black-and-white photographs and
cartoon sketches she made of her office mates. They detail sightseeing around the city, too, serving as a guide to her memories.
One sketch shows a face, with eyebrows raised, looking down from
the top of the Washington Monument.
“I don’t like heights,” Habib said.
As the scrapbook reveals, it’s a dislike she overcame at times. A
half-dozen photos she took from a New York City rooftop give a
bird’s-eye view of a phalanx of soldiers marching down the street
in what seems like an endless parade. “It’s funny when you wear a
uniform, you can get in anywhere,” she said. “The funny thing about
a uniform is that it gives you a lot of courage.”
The highly detailed process of mapmaking was serious business,
but Mary Habib said workers in the cartography office were still
able to have fun. A favorite practical joke sailors played on newbies
was placing a fake blob of ink on top of a new girl’s work table
when they went to the bathroom, she recalled. “There was a lot of
civilian workers there, too. We had a good time. Those sailors were
quite the teasers,” Habib said.
A native of Lowell, Habib (then Mary Margaret McCluskey) enlisted
in an all-female division of the U.S. Navy known as WAVES, Women
Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Services. She graduated from
the New England College [School] of Art trained in graphic and
commercial design. The Navy sent her to Hunter College in New
York before she was assigned to the Pentagon’s Hydro-Graphics
Office in Suitland, Md. Mary Habib said in the 1940s mapmaking
was highly detailed but not what she expected when she first got
her assignment. “I was surprised,” she said. “There actually wasn’t
too much drawing. It was fine work. We did the coastline about
three miles in. The Air Force took pictures of the island, which we
had on a big drafting table.”
Houses were noted with spots the size of a pinhead. Precise details
of cliffs, craggy rocks and sandy areas were crucial so ship commanders would know where and how close vessels could approach
the shoreline. Habib said she was assigned to the WAVES not long
after it was formed. She worked there for two-and-a-half years
between 1944 to just after the war in 1946. A memorable highlight
from her stint in Washington, D.C., was an afternoon when Eleanor
Roosevelt invited Habib and female co-workers in the cartography office to tea at the White House. They spent time in the Blue
Room, one of three state parlors at the home of the president, and
later had punch and cakes in the dining room. “She was a lovely
woman,” Habib said of Roosevelt.
Like many families during the war, everyone in Habib’s family
contributed. Habib’s brother, Richard Jr., and sister, Kathleen, both
enlisted. Her mother, a nurse, worked part time in a parachute factory when not working her shifts at a hospital.
Habib said she had no idea the map she was helping create would
lead to such a significant turning point in the war. It wasn’t until
much later, when Rosenthal’s photograph of the flag raising on the
island became famous that she realized the significance of her con-
tribution to the war effort. Still, she refrained from speaking about
it. It simply wasn’t her way. “After the raising of the flag, I said to
myself, ‘OK, I was part of that,’” Habib said. “But I didn’t realize how
important it was at the time.”
Moved by his mother’s service, Bill Habib recently wrote a detailed
summary of her military career, which was displayed for Memorial Day with photographs of World War II veterans at St. Monica’s
Church in Methuen. “She’s not inclined to boast of herself,” Bill
Habib said. “Her humility is one of her many fine virtues. She would
consider talking about it bragging. That’s not her style.”
After the war, she married in 1950 and became a stay-at-home
mother raising three children. Her daughter, Mary Lee Pare, 50,
lives in Salem, N.H. Her youngest son, Michael, 45, lives in Methuen.
She worked briefly at General Electric and the Internal Revenue
Service, and only kept drawing as a hobby. She remains an active
member of American Legion Post 417, one of the few all-female Legion chapters in the area. The family lived in Methuen for 40 years.
Al and Mary Habib moved to Salem, N.H., about 10 years ago.
Al Habib has long been a fan of Mary’s artwork. He proudly shows
off drawings and sketches Mary etches in a room at the end of a
hallway inside their Azarian Road home. Bill Habib is thankful that
he’s finally learned the details of his mother’s military service. He
now believes there was greater meaning behind the television commercial being played.
“I don’t believe in coincidence anymore,” Bill Habib said. “I’m so
pleased and to a greater extent proud of her, even at this late stage
in life. If it was up to her, I think it would have remained hidden.”
Copyright © 2007 by Eagle-Tribune Publishing Company
Reprinted with permission S.C.
�Fac u lt y I n t e rv i e w
FACULTY
interview
A n I n t e rv i e w w i t h Nac e r B e n k ac i
Nacer Benkaci joined the NESADSU faculty as an adjunct instructor
in 2004, then was a Visiting Assistant
Professor before being elevated to
tenure-track status in 2006. Nacer
was born in Algeria and came to the
States in 1984, to pursue his studies
in architecture and design. He holds
a Diplome d’etat d’Architect (the
equivalent of a Bachelor’s degree
in Architecture) from the Ecole Polytechnique d’Architecture et
d’Urbanisme in Algiers, as well as Masters degrees in Architecture
and Urban Planning from the University of Southern California
in Los Angeles. With over 20 years of experience in architectural
practice in the U.S., Nacer has worked on both commercial and
residential projects here and abroad.
Fa l l 2 0 0 7
Q. Let’s start with a bit of history. Tell us more about yourself.
I was born in 1959 in a small town by the sea, a few miles from
Algiers. My childhood was essentially marked by the Mediterranean
Sea which was a few feet from my parents’ home. Summer was the
occasion to literally live in it and be absorbed by its vast scale and
its potential to trigger a
multitude of voyages. The
I was surrounded by the large scale of the sea,
horizon was very close
the sky, and the mountains and that was in
to us at that time and we
dwelled in it as if it were
direct contrast with the smaller scale of the
part of our everyday lives.
homes and buildings along the edge of the sea.
It is perhaps why I still
I was interested in that relationship and the
have a keen interest in
forms, accidental or planned, that it generated. the concept and reality of
scale. I was surrounded by
the large scale of the sea,
the sky, and the mountains and that was in direct contrast with the
smaller scale of the homes and buildings along the edge of the sea.
I was interested in that relationship and the forms, accidental or
planned, that it generated.
& Th e n
18 19
that some of the meaningful architects had on me. I was very
interested in the work of Corbusier, Louis Kahn and the “modern
movement” in general. Later I grew to appreciate some of the less
known architects and took their works as a source of inspiration
for my own work.
Q. How did you decide on the U.S. for graduate school and what
path brought you to Boston?
I wanted to learn more about architecture and design and pursuing
my studies is one way to do that. At that time, some of the most
influential ideas about architecture were being generated by prominent U.S. architects and thinkers and I wanted to experience that
first hand. I first came to Boston to study English, then to California
for architecture and urban design. I have always been interested
by the city in general and I felt the need to learn more about the
formulation of its shape. Urban planning became obvious for me as
I sought to understand the other forces that shape our cities. I had
some friends that invited me back to Boston; subsequently I was
offered a job. Fall in this area is my favorite season and I wanted to
stick around for a while. I stayed ever since!
Q. Talk a little about your professional experience. Where did you
work and what kind of work did you do?
After my graduation, I sought work in Boston. I worked for several
companies in the area and the work ranged from residential and
commercial to institutional and retail. I learned a great deal and I
believe that experience made me a better architect.
Q. Why do you teach (besides the paycheck!)?
I taught while working professionally. I enjoy very much the
academic work and the exchange of ideas and processes. Also, stu-
“Indoor/Outdoor Museum Study” by Nacer Benkaci
dents are coming out with ingenious ways to resolve old problems
of design; perhaps the technology at their disposal allows them to
tackle issues from a different angle and make new uninvestigated
associations, new ways to manipulate space. Some of the projects
are just a leap forward in design thinking and I very much like being
a part of that. Teaching in reality goes both ways.
Q. How did you wind up at NESADSU? What do you like best
about the school and what keeps you here?
I first was invited to teach as an adjunct professor by Nancy [CoProgram Director Nancy Hackett]. She and I worked together on
several projects in the Boston area. Subsequently I have been hired
as a full time Assistant Professor.
One of the most impressive parts of the program in interior
design at NESADSU in my view is the fact that the ID department
is within a school of art and design. This association with art and
graphic design has a potential benefit for interior design students.
Interior architecture and architecture have always been inspired
by other disciplines and exposing students to a mutual influence is
enriching. The potential for innovation is greater.
Q. Why did you decide to become an architect?
I have always loved to draw and the landscape around me was
prone to that. Just think of the seascape. Obviously, this is just the
premise because as I was studying my passion for architecture
grew stronger. I found in architecture a total freedom of expression and a highly sophisticated creative process that embodies the
entire social, political, and economical issues that humans in general
face. I felt it was important. I also was interested by the theoretical
discourse that was developing in the profession and the influence
Another part that I appreciate greatly is the cooperative nature of the
faculty and the scholastic and pedagogical environment and the standard of care for the students’ progress. It really sets the school apart.
“Indoor/Outdoor Museum Study” by Nacer Benkaci
“House Study, Algiers” by Nacer Benkaci
�The New England School of
Art & Design at Suffolk University
75 Arlington Street
Boston, MA 02116
G a l l e ry S c h e du l e
GALLERY
schedule
2007
2008
Never Been Seen: Susan Nichter
2008 Student Exhibitions
Recent paintings by a NESADSU faculty member.
October 11th to November 10th
Reception: Friday, October 12th 6 – 8pm
Work by current students of The New England School of
Art & Design at Suffolk University
Ozspirations
Art Inspired by The Wizard of Oz, curated by Associate
Professor of Graphic Design Jennifer Fuchel.
November 15th to December 22nd
Reception: Friday, November 16th 6 – 8pm
2008
The 2007 Stephen D. Paine Scholarship
Award Winners and Honorable Mentions
exhibition
January 14th to February 9th
Reception: Friday, January 18th 5 – 7pm
Foundation
March 24th to April 4th
Reception: Friday, March 28th 5 – 7pm
Graphic Design (Undergraduate)
April 7th to April 18th
Reception: Friday, April 11th 5 – 7pm
Fine Arts
April 22nd to May 2nd
Reception: Friday, April 25th 5 – 7pm
Interior Design (Graduate and
Undergraduate)
Interventions and Objects: New Work
by Bebe Beard and Liz Nofziger
May 5th to May 16th
Reception: Friday, May 9th 5 – 7pm
February 14th to March 15th
Reception: Thursday, February 14th 6 – 8pm
Summer exhibition:TBA
Graphic Design (Graduate)
September 2nd to September 14th
Reception: TBA
Please call (617) 573-8785 to confirm dates and times of
exhibitions and opening receptions.
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NESADSU Alumni Newsletter
& Then
Fa l l 2 0 0 7 I s s u e # 13
85-Year-Old Graduate has Great
Success with Women…
And great success with the general public as well.
NESA alum John Burbidge (1948 Fashion Design) is
currently exhibiting his collection of 59 costumed
mannequins, made to scale, which he calls Les
Petites Dames de Mode, at Ventfort Hall in Lenox,
MA. The exhibition, which was to end in September,
has been extended until December 31st (2007) due
to the unprecedented numbers of visitors it has
attracted, including the likes of cellist Yo-Yo Ma who
dropped by in August.
The “Little Ladies”, as John calls them, must be seen
to be believed and that’s why I’m urging everyone
to make the trip to Lenox, in the Berkshires of
western Massachusetts, before the end of the year.
This interest was fueled by a chance wartime trip to the
Louvre in Paris.There he found on exhibit nearly 300
27-inch mannequins dressed by the leading Parisian
couturiers of the day.
The “Ladies” are 29 inches tall and are dressed in
historically correct costumes, all designed and executed by John, of the Victorian and Edwardian eras
(1855 to 1914). Wedding gowns, tea dresses, ball
gowns, traveling suits, all are meticulously crafted
and completely original. Tiny hats, parasols, fans, jewelry and other accessories complete each ensemble.
John, who was associated for 40 years with Priscilla
of Boston, perhaps the premier bridal company in
the country (he designed Tricia
Nixon’s wedding gown), decided,
upon retirement, to resolve
his “mid-life creative crisis” by
indulging his long-time interest in
period costuming. This interest
was fueled by a chance wartime
trip to the Louvre in Paris. There
he found on exhibit nearly 300
27-inch mannequins dressed by
the leading Parisian couturiers of
the day and designed to demA costume for Ascot Races circa 1907
onstrate that, despite the war, French couture was
alive and well. From this experience came John’s
life-long fascination with period costume.
In addition to the exhibition at Ventfort Hall, you
can see (and you will be amazed by) John’s work in
his book, Les Petites Dames de Mode, which is available at Ventfort Hall, in the NESADSU library, and
through bookstores or on line. The book details the
evolution of the “Ladies”, the history behind each
one, and John’s biography as well. Liberally illustrated with amazing photographs of each creation,
and of John at work, the book is a feast of history,
craftsmanship and inspiration.
John Burbidge at work
Though it’s subject for another article, John’s wife
of 57 years, Cile, also a 1948 graduate of NESA,
has also been intimately involved with the bridal
industry for over 50 years, not dressing brides, but
feeding them. To call her a “cake designer” would be
a gross understatement, like calling Michaelangelo
a painter. While John creates in fabric and lace, Cile
works her magic in flour and sugar, creating cakes
that boggle the imagination. But I’ll leave that for
another time.
“Les Petites Dames de Mode” is available for viewing until December 31, 2007.Ventfort Hall Mansion
and Gilded Age Museum is located in Lenox, MA
at 104 Walker
Street. For
information, telephone (413) 6373206 or email
info@gildedage.
org. S.C. §
Afternoon dressing circa 1910
Inside
Editor’s Note . . . . . . . . 2
Lost Alumni . . . . . . . . . 2
Whatever Happened to? . 3
Did You Know? . . . . . . . 3
News & Tidbits . . . . . . . . 4
Little Cultural
Differences . . . . . . . . . 8
Class Notes . . . . . . . . . 10
Feedback . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Alumni Focus . . . . . . . 16
Faculty Interview . . . . 18
Dinner gown circa 1883
Gallery Schedule . . . . 20
�When I first started this alumni magazine, I worried about whether I would
be able to fill an issue each semester. At
times I couldn’t imagine ever having
enough to write about, though should
have known better, after 29 years at the
school! So, here is the 13th issue, as large
as ever and still full of news I hope you
find interesting.
In this edition we offer you installment #2 of Kate McLean’s
series on the Paris design scene, called “Cultural Differences”,
along with a “Whatever Happened to…?” by its subject, former
faculty member Steve Lyons. Another welcome contributor is
Mish McIntyre, who, along with Jessie Schloss, has written about
a new collaborative effort among recent Fine Arts graduates.
(Part of the secret of filling this magazine is getting others to do
some of the writing…)
If you’re interested in finding out how our recent NASAD reaccreditation went, turn to page 5 for the verdict. And, as always,
check out the Class Notes, to find out what your friends are up
to. If you don’t see your name, it’s because I have no recent news
of you. C’mon, send it in!
Remember that this magazine exists for you, so please let me
know if there are things you’d like to see in it. If you feel like
contributing photographs or an article, let me know that too.
You can show off your work, talk about what you’re doing
design-wise, or write about something else that’s important to
you. If you just want to comment on something you’ve seen in a
previous issue, then Feedback is the section for you.
Lost Alumni
Does anyone know where I can find these NESA/D/SU alumni?
They’re no longer at the addresses I had for them and I haven’t been
able to trace them. If you know, please send me an email at
schadwic@suffolk.edu.
Many thanks, detectives!
Sara
P.S. Last time, this worked and I found Christine Jellow (Interior Design
1979), thanks to Laura Glen (Interior Design 2001).
Alyssa Weaver
Jessica (Chih Yun) Lu
Pedro Carrasquillo
Patricio Calderon
Rachel Lane (nee Miller)
Deborah (McCarthy) Richard
Aimee Whitlock
Interior Design
Interior Design
Graphic Design
Graphic Design
Interior Design
Graphic Design
Interior Design
2003
1995
1985
1989
1994
1982
2003
S.C. §
Please send your photographs and news for inclusion in the next issue. Send all
photographs, slides, or digital files, with an accompanying caption that identifies
who is in the picture and when and where it was taken. All photographs, slides
and digital files should be 300 dpi at 5”x7” (1500 x 2100 pixels, total filesize four
megabytes approximately), a high-resolution JPEG taken with at least a threemegapixel camera.
So stay in touch and please let me know if you change your
address or your job.
Thanks and happy Fall,
Sara
Th e N e w E n g l a n d S c h ool o f
A rt & D e s i g n at
S u f f ol k U n i v e r s i t y
Fa l l 2 0 0 7
A l u m n i N e w s l e t t e r, Fa l l 2 0 0 7 I s s u e # 13
& Th e n
2 3
EDITOR:
Sara Chadwick
design concept & DESIGN:
CONTRIBUTING designer:
special thanks:
Kate McLean
Rita Daly
Molly Ferguson, Suzanne McCarthy, Kate McLean, Mish McIntyre,
Jessie Schloss
printing:
Reynolds DeWalt, New Bedford, MA
web site: www.suffolk.edu/nesad
N e w s & Ti d b i t s
E d i t or ’ s N ot e
NEWS tidbits
&
Did You Know?
Whatever Happened To…?
Steve Lyons
“Upon leaving The New England School of Art & Design as an adjunct faculty
member in 1987, I went to work for the Boston office of Ligature, a Chicagobased educational development house. As a designer there, I worked with
editors and production staff conceptualizing and producing middle school and
high school textbooks for publishers including Houghton Mifflin and Holt,
Rinehart and Winston. I eventually became Managing Director of the Boston
office, overseeing a staff of 75 people. In 1991, I left Ligature with a colleague to
form DECODE, Inc., (www.decodeinc.com) a graphic design office dedicated to
providing creative services to the educational publishing market. DECODE has
produced textbooks for Houghton Mifflin, Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, Prentice Hall,
Silver Burdett and Ginn, and Holt, Rinehart and Winston, in a variety of content
areas including social studies, US and world history, science, math, literature, and
language arts.
“In 1994, my partner and I moved the company to Seattle, leasing space downtown on the 10th floor of a 14–story building overlooking Elliot Bay and ten
years later, along with other partners, I purchased a three–story, turn–of–the–
century brick building in historic Pioneer Square. DECODE has been operating
there with a staff of four ever since.
“In 2004, I co-founded Platform Gallery (www.platformgallery.com), a commercial contemporary art space dedicated to exhibiting sculpture, painting, works
on paper, installation, photography, and new media. The gallery works with artists
from Seattle, Los Angeles, Toronto, New York, Rhode Island, Wisconsin, and
Illinois. The gallery is located in the gallery district of Pioneer Square and is open
Thursdays to Saturdays, 11am to 5:30pm. One of the missions of Platform is to
take work beyond Seattle and we are participating in upcoming art fairs including
The Affair at the Jupiter Hotel in Portland, Oregon (Sept. 14-16),Year07, a fair
taking place in County Hall in London (Oct. 11-14), and Aqua Art Miami, the
Aqua Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida.
“And with all of that going on, I still maintain a
studio practice working on my own art. I’ve most
recently been working on conceptual drawings
and mixed media on paper and panel. I fondly
remember my teaching days in Boston and refuse
to believe that that part of my life was over 20
years ago!” Steve Lyons §
During the 2006-2007 school year, NESADSU
enrolled 426 art and design majors. 221 were
BFA candidates (108 in Interior Design, 82 in
Graphic Design, and 31 in Fine Arts) and 116
were graduate students (106 in the Master of
Arts program in Interior Design and 10 in the
MA program in Graphic Design). There were
also 12 Certificate students, one Diploma
candidate (the Diploma programs were discontinued in 2004), and 76 continuing education
students.
That same year, we spent $2,145,450 on fulland part-time faculty salaries.
We currently have in school 256 computers,
105 Macs and 151 PC’s, 36 in offices and the
rest in classrooms and other student areas.
Software is updated with every new release,
hardware every three years.
The cost of one roll of paper used in Foundation drawing classes is $60. We use about 30
rolls per school year. That’s $1800.
The NESADSU Library currently holds approximately 10,000 books, 53 periodical
subscriptions and 30,000 slides.
The retail price of one license for the
Adobe Creative Suite Premium Design CS3
is $1,700.00. NESADSU holds 50 licenses. At
retail this would equal $85,000 (yikes!).
The average cost of one ink cartridge is
$28.00. During the 2006-2007 academic year,
NESADSU spent $27,800 on ink and toner
(yikes again!).
The price of one AutoCAD license is $240.
NESADSU holds 75 licenses, costing $18,000
per year.
During the 2006-2007 academic year, we spent
$15,000 on models for figure drawing classes.
Last year, 84 art and design students took
advantage of workshops sponsored by the Ballotti Learning Center at NESADSU.
For 2006-2007, NESADSU’s operating budget
was $5,157,3000.
Who knew? S.C. §
�N e w s & Ti d b i t s
NEWS tidbits
&
NESADSU Successfully Completes
Reaccreditation Process
G r a p h i c D e s i g n St u d e n t
Scores for Lupus
It was formally announced at the annual meeting of the National Association of Schools of Art and Design in Kansas City in October, that The New
England School of Art & Design at Suffolk University has been granted renewal of membership, for a ten-year period of accreditation.This decision
follows the March/April site visit described in the last edition of this magazine.
The focus in the Advertising Design (ADG S208)
course at NESADSU is to develop fully integrated
campaigns—a body of work with a cohesive brand
and campaign message and a look that seamlessly
translates into various print and interactive media
outlets. For their last class project of the Fall 2006
semester, students were tasked with developing
an integrated campaign for the Lupus Foundation
Event logo design by Stormi Knight.
the presentations with other partners within the
organization, Stormi Knight’s campaign was selected
to support the Fall 2007 efforts for the Walk on the
Charles. Her interactive campaign reached out nationally to those affected by Lupus by creating custom artwork to be used throughout the campaign,
and included a poster, booklet, website and banner
work. Knight was then able to work with the class
of New England, a campaign that would increase
awareness about Lupus, an autoimmune disease
affecting more than a million people in the U.S. and
millions more worldwide. Working from a written
strategy provided by the Foundation and detailing specific messaging goals, the students designed
posters, web banners, environmental design pieces,
booklets, and other support pieces to raise awareness about the disease, and to
promote the Lupus Walk on the
Charles supporting efforts towards
finding a cure.
instructor, the client, and various printing venders to
produce the campaign for publication.
Fa l l 2 0 0 7
& Th e n
•
The improvement of NESADSU faculty salaries, security and
advancement.
•
Well-maintained facilities with …many good studio spaces.
•
Arrangement attractive to students who are seeking the broad
resources of a university combined with the specialization of
art and design study.
•
A shared attitude toward student success and small freshman
classes.
•
Improved library support for NESADSU.
•
Expansion of cultural dimension to Suffolk University life.
•
A spirit of warm collegiality pervades both the University and
art/design school administration.
•
The wide-ranging liberal arts courses available to NESADSU
students.
•
NESADSU student access to University services, such as financial aid, counseling, learning center.
Suffolk University administrators including the Dean of
Arts and Sciences and the Provost appear very cognizant of
NESADSU needs and demonstrate willingness to advance the
integration of the art school within the University.”
The primary challenge cited in the Visitors’ Report involved the
need for additional facilities for NESADSU, to accommodate
increasing numbers of students, the specific needs of graduate students, and the need for work spaces for students outside of class.
In addition, the following challenges were mentioned:
NESADSU enjoys a loyal and dedicated faculty, highly committed to student success and who appear to work in a highly
cooperative manner.
Significant quantity of up-to-date computer hardware and software to support computer-dependent educational programs.
•
Evidence of high quality in undergraduate and graduate visual
arts education.
•
Poster design by Stormi Knight.
“The NESAD merger with Suffolk University made eleven
years ago appears to be a strongly supported integration
…(with) many positive results.
•
During the meeting, the Foundation
expressed to the presenting students how “beautiful”, “well thought
out” and “professional” all of the
campaigns were. After reviewing all
•
•
With congratulations to Stormi Knight, we present
her work here. Suzanne McCarthy, Instructor §
In hopes of giving at least some of
the students experience presenting
their work to clients, the instructor,
Suzanne McCarthy, contacted the
Lupus Foundation of New England
to request that the class’s best three
projects be considered for production. The class evaluated the work
produced and decided that the
campaigns designed by Nelia Brega,
Stormi Knight, and Megan Clarke
were the strongest for client review.
The students and instructor then
visited the Foundation in order to
present their choices.
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The Visitors’ Report, presented to us in July, summarized the team’s
findings during their four-day visit, and, in all areas, it was stated that
NESADSU appeared “to meet all criteria for all applicable NASAD
standards”, as outlined in the NASAD handbook. The Visitor’s Report ended with a list of institutional strengths and challenges, the
former gratifyingly longer than the latter. We thought you might be
curious to know what they said. Among strengths, the team cited:
•
“The need to attend to the dichotomous views of faculty
and graduate students in regard to the mix of undergraduate
and graduate students in Graphic Design and Interior Design
classes. Grad students appear to view this as a negative aspect
to their programs; faculty members appear to feel that such
blending raises the quality bar for these classes.
•
The visiting team has concerns that the elastic completion time
for admitted MA students—from 30 to 99 credits—may be
unclear to graduate students and may compromise the stated
credit requirements for these graduate programs.
•
Need for further communication to address undergraduate
concerns about scheduling liberal arts requirements to mesh
with art and design classes in light of the University’s change to
4-credit courses.
•
Important to continue to improve art school’s ability to attract
art and design majors with demonstrated aptitude and accomplishment.”
As I said in the last article on the subject of reaccreditation, in the
Spring magazine, the reaccreditation process is long and exhausting and could not have been completed so successfully without the
cooperation of the entire NESADSU community, administrators,
faculty, students and alumni alike. The comments made by the Visiting Team, who have extensive experience reviewing the programs
of the country’s most prestigious art and design schools, should
make all of us—and you—very proud. S.C. §
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Tomorrow’s Students
e · mer · gence
1. the act or process of emerging.
2. an outgrowth, as a prickle, on the surface of a plant.
3. evolution.The appearance of new properties or species in
the course of development or evolution.
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Arduous does not even begin to encompass the tremendous shift in life from student to practicing studio
artist. From developing resumes and portfolios, securing studio work/ live space to facilitating income, it is
not surprising that many compromise the production
of artwork for rent and food. Most critical is the loss of
the peer art community that graduating students have
come to depend upon during their education.
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Recently, some of the past three years’ Fine Arts alumni
have attempted to overcome the stress and pressure
of the first years out of school by developing a critique
group based in the Fort Point area of Boston. This
group aims to support each member to enable the
continued practice of studio art and provide a place of
critical review and experimentation.
The range of subject, material, content and execution
varies greatly and to that end the critique group has
engaged in a collaborative effort to create new works
that require the exchange of work and authorship from
one artist to the next in an attempt to explore the
overall visual language of the community as a whole.
The resulting work is an examination of process and
content at a micro and macro level, so much so that
the work has taken on the distinct appearance of biological and ecological systems, some real, others imagined. The mixture of several artists per piece changes
the visual language of the individual into an emergent
communal discourse.
Emergence is both an examination of the real world
struggle for these artists to establish their studio practice in the Boston community and an introspection of
the micro community of the critique group as it grows
and develops beyond the NESADSU community.
For five weeks over this past summer a
group of twenty-two high school students
and incoming college freshmen participated
in NESADSU’s Pre-College Program.
Guided by professors and adjunct instructors Randal Thurston, Paul Andrade, Matt
Templeton and Bebe Beard, this group of
talented young students explored the visual
vocabulary of art and design while learning
the basics of portfolio preparation.
Working in the School’s studios, students
expanded their knowledge of drawing,
painting and the principles of two- and
three-dimensional design. Our ’07 Pre-College Program participants were introduced
to the vibrant cultural scene here in Boston
through field trips to area museums and
artists’ studios. The program culminated in
a student-organized exhibition highlighting
work produced over the summer.
Summer Class of 2007
Responding to the remarkable success of
and enthusiasm generated by this summer’s
program, Continuing Education has begun
offering Pre-College workshops during
the school year. Adjunct Instructor Matt
Templeton is teaching a five-week Pre-College Portfolio Preparation Workshop this
fall designed to help prepare students to
present their work at Boston’s National
Portfolio Day.
For more information regarding the School
of Art & Design’s Pre-College programs
please contact Karianne Noble, Director
of Continuing Education and Preparatory
Programs, at knoble@suffolk.edu or call
(617) 994-4233. Molly Ferguson §
An exhibition of the critique group’s work will be held
in the White Box Gallery (room 208) at NESADSU
from May 12th until June 27th, 2008. There will be an
opening reception, to which all are invited, on Friday,
May 16th from 5 to 7pm. Mish McIntyre and Jessie Schloss §
All work featured on this poster was created by high school students.
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OVERSEAS
correspondent
Little Cultural Differences
Cultural differences are what make foreign
travel such a wonderful adventure, and they
are what make a country or a city unique
to work and live in. Here are some of the
cultural differences between Paris, France and
anywhere in the Anglo-Saxon world:
The working day. Parisians
Morning commute on the Paris métro.
really want to be Mediterranean. They love to
eat late and stay up late. The problem is waking
up; the morning métro is full of people still
soundly asleep despite being fully clothed for
work. The working day starts later here—usually between 9.00am and 10.00am—and
most people finish work between 6.00pm
and 7.00pm. The 35-hour working week only
applies to those employed by large companies
and government employees (who signed that
into law?). Most people work way in excess of
this figure. If you do the math it is clear something else must take up a part of the day…
The importance of
lunch. Lunch is a right.The French
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Lunch time at the “Quatorze Juillet” bistro.
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will happily work through later in the evenings
if a deadline is looming, but will absolutely not
skip lunch. It lasts between one and two hours,
often it is an event used to discuss business;
it is however sacrosanct. Indeed should you
munch a sandwich at your desk other people
will disparagingly refer to you as having lunch
“a ‘l’anglais” (like the English). At least a third
of Parisians lunch in restaurants and bistros
every day and the remainder of us bring in
creative options from home and stop work
to eat together. Lunch is a social occasion for
everybody and it is the height of bad manners
to start without asking your co-workers if they
are going to join you.
How to approach a
deadline. In December 2006
Anne-Claire and I shared the design work for a
program for an annual film festival. The overall
design was approved; all we were waiting for
was the copious copy to arrive as well as all
those small little program details such as name
of event, venue, time, price, etc., etc. for over
1000 events. The printing deadline was fixed, as
it had to piggyback on to another job so as to
save costs. We waited and we waited. Four days
before the printing deadline the text started to
trickle through… then even I started spotting
the spelling errors (yep, in French) and we
realized that none of the text had been proof
read. So the text went back to be checked and
a committee from the festival camped downstairs from our office fixing spelling errors on
the printed pages, meaning we had to correct
them electronically. In the end, with no leadership and even less organization Anne-Claire
and I worked from 9.00am to 11.00pm (without lunch) for three days to accommodate the
festival committee. This last minute approach
happens all the time. To deliver another project
on time another member of our team got on
his motorbike and sped through the streets of
Paris; he got the official stamp of receipt just 2
minutes before the deadline.
Fear of commitment.
The French fear of commitment and their
desire to leave everything open should suit my
personality very well, but as in all such cases
the most extreme party retains the behavior and forces the other party into inverse
behavior. I have been pushed to the inverse
as I try to work with Jean-Louis. One recent
project was (spéculatif of course) to develop a
POS for a company selling “Coffrets Cadeaux”
(www.wonderbox.fr). I did my research—I
photographed existing POS, looked at various
designs and came up with five or six options. I wanted, I needed, his direction. With
every design I showed him his response was
“pourqoui pas?” (why not?). I have to say I
found this distinctly unhelpful. In the end I
pushed and pushed and pushed for him to give
me a decision—he appeared to be in pain, and
immediately after making a decision went out
for lunch to forget all about it.
Fashion. Using public transport and
doing a lot of walking is my opportunity to
observe the latest fashions and styles. On the
métro and the bus I get to see the small but
essential details, mainly because the French
concept of personal space is non-existent. Thus
I have learned how to tie a scarf depending on
the time of year, what earrings are currently
fashionable and how to wear the collar of
a simple shirt so as to look decidedly chic.
A point to note is that Parisian women are
thinner than most, which of course aids their
ability to look good in almost everything. Two
other essential building blocks to acquiring
Parisian style are the requirement to wear
heels on your shoes (the sneaker-clad commuter is a rare sight) and to walk proudly with
a large designer bag and a good designer coat.
Ordinary French women do actually shop in
Hermes, Lancel and Chanel if only once every
five years. For the first time in my life my first
waking thought is what to wear, even at the
weekend!
POS proposal for “Wonderbox”, 2007
How much vacation?
As I write this (early September 2007) I, and
the majority of Parisians, have just returned
from a month of vacation. Everything you may
have heard is true. The city sleeps as millions
head for their second homes in the countryside or the coast. Until recently very few
French people ventured abroad, and if they
did it was to French-speaking places such as
the Reunion Islands near to Madagascar or
Martinique in the Caribbean. But this summer
has been a washout for northern Europe since
June and I heard much French being spoken as
I lay on the beach in very sunny Spain. Now,
after a month off work, we are all back, excited
to be in the city that has regained the buzz
but actively looking forward to the next main
vacation, which is Toussaint (a.k.a. Halloween). In total the French come second to the
Germans with an annual vacation entitlement
of 7.5 weeks. Being freelance I can take what
vacation I like, but there again if I don’t work
then I don’t earn any money to go on vacation!
Kate McLean §
“Polar dans laVille” film festival program
�1962 – Dan McCarron (Graphic
Design) continues to keep up a heady
schedule of design work for Harvard, his
former employer. “I am in the process of producing a book on decorated papers for the
Department of Graphic Arts at Houghton
Library at Harvard, which will be published
this fall and distributed by the Harvard
University Press. I am also working on an
exhibit that celebrates the 75th anniversary
of Memorial Church at Harvard as well as
the 400th birthday of John Harvard. … The
exhibit will be mounted at Pusey Library in
Harvard Yard this fall. Finally, I am producing a DVD to celebrate the 45th reunion of
the Class of 1962, Harvard College…..All
great projects that I truly enjoy working on!
Who knew that, when I sat in a Huntington
Avenue classroom at [NESA] in the early
sixties, I would get to do such interesting
projects for Harvard University 45 years
later!” You can rdach Dan at dmccaron@
wordtechcorp.com.
Please be sure to send your updated information
to Sara Chadwick at schadwic@suffolk.edu (for
our database and/or for publication) and also, if
you wish, to classnotes@suffolk.edu for the Suffolk
Alumni Magazine.
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1971 – Millicent (Busse) Swaine (Advertising Design) got in touch with us the
other day, wondering what we were up to.
Millie worked in advertising for Sears after
graduating from NESA, then had three children so gave up work to stay home and care
for them. Now she keeps busy “doing the
décor for parties, theatre, CET-TV and nonprofit organizations. I have been doing wedding planning too. Keeps me busy. I would
love to hear what others have done…I’m
sure it’s great things!” You can reach Millie at
millieswaine@aol.com.
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1973 – Ellyn (Greenberg) Moller
(Fashion Illustration) is currently the
Director of the Akillian Gallery at Massasoit
Community College in Canton. She has also
served on the Board of Trustees for the Milton Art Museum for the past eight years, the
last four as Chairman, and has been named
Event Chairman for the 2008 Arts Affair on
the Boardwalk at Marina Bay in Quincy. In
addition to all of this, Ellyn continues to take
on freelance design projects as well as manage her husband’s entertainment business,
at the same time taking courses toward her
degree at Massasoit. You can reach Ellyn at
emoller@massasoit.mass.edu.
1974 – Steve Hodgdon (Graphic
Design) recently organized a min-reunion
in August of some of the members of the
Class of 1974, who currently live in New
Hampshire. Gail (Herbert) Kimball (Fashion
Illustration) and Jim Hankard (Fine Arts) attended, though Fred Durham (Fine Arts) and
his wife Connie (Wadleigh) Durham (1973
Fashion Illustration) were not able to attend.
They all met at Steve’s house in Contoocook
“and had a wonderful afternoon. Sorry I
don’t have any pictures to attach…we were
having too much fun catching up!” Well, Gail
supplied us with this one, which is great. If
you can offer Steve information on any other
members of the Class of 1974 (see the three
below, located since), I’m sure there’ll be another get-together in the offing. Contact Steve
at shodgdon@comcast.net.
1974 – Ronald Holl (Graphic Design)
is the Director of Operations/Art Director at LSHD Advertising, of which he is a
partner, in Chicopee, MA. LSHD, in business
since 1986, is western Massachusetts’ largest
advertising agency. You can reach Ron at ron.
holl@lshd.com.
1974 – William Kenney (Graphic
Design) is the Vice President/Creative of
BrandEquity International, with headquarters
in Newton. BrandEquity is a visual marketing and brand communication firm, which
was established in 1960 and which has such
clients as Staples, Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare,
Au Bon Pain, Massachusetts General Hospital,
Sheraton and many others. Check them out
at www.brandequity.com and contact Bill at
kenneydesign@comcast.net.
1974 – Stephen Krupsky (Graphic
Design) is a partner in Adrenaline Design
in Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA. Adrenaline
Design is a marketing-oriented design firm
that specializes in brand identity, logo development, package design, web design, etc.
Check them out at www.adrenaline-design.
com and get in touch with Steve at stevek@
adrenaline-design.com.
1979 – Christine Jellow (Graphic
Design) has parlayed her years of graphic
design experience and her coursework in
the Masters program in Interior Design into
a position with Urban Archaeology in the
Boston Design Center. Urban Archaeology is
a high-end lighting, bath and tile manufacturer
and retailer, with a wide range of top-quality
and beautifully designed products. Check out
their website at www.urbanarchaeology.com
and contact Christine at c.jellow@comcast.net.
1981 – Eli Cedrone (General Art)
had three of her paintings accepted into
the Guild of Boston Artists show at their
Newbury Street gallery in August. This
regional, juried exhibition featured the best
of representational painting and sculpture by
both emerging and established artists living in
New England. In addition, Eli’s painting “Journey’s End” was awarded Best in Show at the
Pembroke (MA) Arts Festival, also in August.
You can contact Eli at artfulhand@comcast.
net. Also, check out her online newsletter at
www.elicedrone.com for classes, exhibitions,
etc. Lots of news!
1983 – John Gonnella (Graphic Design) left Digitas about a year-and-a-half ago
and is starting his own “web branding gig”,
called Truth and Soul, Inc. (www.truthandsoulinc.com). John will be moving shortly
to the South End, “to pursue my painting, in
downtime…I always bump into James Kraus
[1982 General Art] and also saw Audrey
Goldstein last week”. You can get in touch
with John at johnny.g@truthandsoulinc.com.
1983 – Paul Harrington (General
Art) had an exhibition of his hand-painted
silkscreens during the month of September
at The Savings Bank, Lakeside Office in Wakefield. Paul’s web gallery, of drawings, paintings and sculpture, can be found at www.
luminism.net. You can reach Paul at paulharrington@luminism.net.
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1985 – Merle Craig (Interior
Design) recently sent us a contribution to
NESADSU’s J.W.S. Cox Scholarship Fund, for
which we are very grateful! She is currently
on the faculty at Endicott College in Beverly,
as an Assistant Professor of Interior Design
(“I’m enjoying it very much”), and still owns
her own ID firm, Merle Craig Interiors in
Durham, NH. “I see quite a bit of Marge Lee
(1984 Interior Design) [also an Assistant
Professor at Endicott] and I also see Kris
Orr (1984 Interior Design) and Anne Lenox
(1987 Interior Design) occasionally. We
share the same birthdate and usually have
breakfast together sometime around September 11th. We discovered this when we
were assigned to the same ‘contract furniture
research committee’ in our sophomore year
and have gotten together many times since.”
You can reach Merle at mcraig@endicott.edu.
1987 – Deven Winters (Fine Arts)
emailed us In May to say he and his wife
were packing for a move back to Texas, this
time to Mesquite, where Deven will be taking a job at id Software, a pioneer in FPS PC
game titles. As a designer, he’ll be creating
levels, gameplay elements and some basic art
“for the artists to make beautiful. I want to
go there to be able to learn from the masters, develop my next gen art and become
even more well-rounded.” Deven also says
that he’ll be starting a children’s book this
fall with his wife as the writer. “The newest
member of our family is getting big…and is
almost as tall as his four-and-a-half-year-old
brother. My oldest son Joshua can read and
write a little bit. He also reconfigured my
X-Box to read Chinese and it took us two
hours to undo it. He’s is getting really good
at games and problem solving.” Deven is also
thinking of becoming a teacher of 3D graphics and perhaps starting his own company as
well. You can reach him at arxangel@gmail.
com and check out his website at www.
arxangel.net.
1989 – Dave Swanson (Graphic Design) recently got in touch with us, looking
for some freelance graphic design help for
the summer. (Editor’s Note: If you are interested in either full-time or freelance work,
please be sure to fill out the Alumni Update
Form on the NESADSU alumni page on
our website.) Dave, who is the Director of
Design for Fidelity Investments in Smithfield,
RI, lives in Foster with his wife and three
children, Zoe (2), Max (6) and Clara (4). As
Dave says, “Things are going well. We all have
our health and a routine. It’s just non-stop,
taking care of a house, a dog and three small
children, then trying to fit in my own stuff….
I’ve redefined patience. It’s not like the old
days when the world revolved around ME.
It has many more benefits but there was a
learning curve for me and still is to some
extent, but I’m getting better at it. I’m trying
not to forget the old worn out saying ‘They
grown up fast’. I remain conscious of that and
very much enjoy the simplicity of it all and
fostering good memories. Which reminds me
of another saying, ‘If I had a nickel” for every
time someone with grown children says that
to me, I’d be a millionaire!’ You can get in
touch with Dave at david.swanson@fmr.com.
1993 – Steinunn Jonsdottir (Interior
Design) returned to her native Iceland in
2004, bought
a farm in
northern
Iceland that
same year,
with an eye
toward starting an international art center there, earned
an MBA from Reykjavik University in 2006,
and started the Baer Art Center (www.baer.
is) in May of this year. She has since moved
into a new home and had a third child (Baldur, now one, brother to Nanna Katrin, now
13, and Jon Bragi, now 10). Take a look at the
Baer Art Center’s website and see whether
you might be interested in a residency. You
can also reach Steinunn at sj@sj.is.
1995 – Scott Truesdale (Graphic
Design) has left Malchow, Schlackman,
Hoppey, Cooper
Partners in Washington,
DC and has taken a
position as Vice President/Creative for the
Mack/Crounse Group
in Alexandria, VA. Both
are political advertising
firms, a field Scott has
been deeply involved in
for a number of years.
The Mack/Crounse
website cites Scott as
“one of the most experienced creative talents
in the political business.
He brings a unique and
fresh view to creative
and is a great addition
to our team.”. You can reach Scott at struesdale@mackcrounse.com.
1997 – Todd Fitz (Graphic Design)
is still living in Georgetown, MA and has a
design office in Newburyport. His former
company, Firecracker, has morphed into Fuel
73, which is heavily focused on the publishing industry, specifically magazines, and more
specifically Ocean Home Magazine (www.
oceanhomemag.com), northshore magazine (www.nshoremag.com), and Our Place
Magazine. You can reach Todd at todd@
fuel73.com.
1997 – Ken Harney (Graphic Design)
is still in New York, but is now the Deputy
Art Director for DNR Magazine, a Conde
Nast publication on men’s apparel, fashion
retailing and design. For fun he’s into Thai
boxing and is working on his blue belt in
Brazilian jiu-jitsu. That’s for exercise; he also
does yoga for relaxation. You can reach Ken
at kharney1@yahoo.com.
�1998 – Ann Borwick (Fine Arts) has
moved from Seattle across the lake to Bainbridge Island, where she now owns a B&B.
Called Furin-Oka (“Wind-Bell Hill”) Futon
& Breakfast, it occupies a private, detached
house and garden built in traditional Japanese
style at the rear of the property on which
she lives, accommodates two people, and has
a tatami room as well as a kitchenette and
a bath with a Japanese soaking tub. Check it
out at www.futonandbreakfast.com. Besides
all of that, Ann’s gotten heavily into gardening,
which the lush northwest climate makes a
pleasure. You can reach Ann at afborwick@
yahoo.com.
Please be sure to send your updated information
to Sara Chadwick at schadwic@suffolk.edu (for
our database and/or for publication) and also, if
you wish, to classnotes@suffolk.edu for the Suffolk
Alumni Magazine.
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1998 – Melissa Horvath (Graphic
Design) started a new job in May, as Senior
Interactive Art Director at VML in New
York. VML is an interactive ad agency with
such clients as Colgate-Palmolive, which will
be Melissa’s main account, Burger King and
TurboTax. Part of the WPP network, they
collaborate with sister agency Y&R on crossmedia campaigns. In addition to the new job,
Melissa is also making plans for her November 9th wedding. Check out her website at
www.melissahorvath.com and get in touch
with her at melissa@melissahorvath.com.
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1998 – Scott MacGillivray (Fine Arts)
has increased his family by one (son, Odin,
was born on March 19th) and moved them
all to Indiantown, FL, where they have a 60acre ranch. On said ranch are four children
(presumably not within fences), “and a whole
menagerie of animals, including four horses,
three goats, a llama, a pot-bellied pig, three
dogs, more cats then I care to count, and a
few other small critters”. Scott also started a
new job in August, “teaching graphic design
at a vocational high school in a maximumsecurity prison. It sounds like a challenge and
I’m excited.” Send congratulations to Scott at
smacdad101@aol.com.
2001 – Helen (Carroll) Johnson (Fine
Arts) recently wrote to tell us all her news.
“I was married in 2005 so my last name is
now Johnson. Directly after graduating Suffolk I worked at Kids Are People School, a
multicultural and inclusive school in Boston,
first as a teacher’s aide and then as a teacher.
I received my Masters from Lesley University in Art Education in 2006…and began
working at the Children’s Learning Center
in Dorchester as a pre-school teacher. April
20th I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl
Alexandria! She was born seven weeks early
so she had a scary start but is doing great
now. Just recently my husband and I were
accepted into the Salvation Army’s School
for Officers’ Training. After two years of
schooling we will be ordained ministers, so
we are currently preparing to move to New
York….The newsletters have been going to
my parents’ house for three years, but that
was fine because we’ve moved three times
in the last year and a half!…It’s great to see
how the school is growing and what is happening!” You can reach Helen at helen_johnson@mrmumu.net.
2001 – Laura Glen (Interior Design)
has returned to her roots in Louisiana, in the
wake of hurricane Katrina. “I’m still working
on projects throughout New England (with
one studio in Wellesley, MA) but have my
main studio back home in New Orleans.
Katrina was devastating to my family and
friends and I just need to be here to help
rebuild….If you ever need an article on New
Orleans and the rebirth, I would be happy to
provide my insight, having evacuated, rebuilt
and worked with clients there.” We’re taking
Laura up on her kind offer and hope to have
an article for you in the next edition of “And
Then”. In the meantime, you can get in touch
with Laura at lauraglen@comcast.net.
2002 – Erin Fay (Graphic Design) has
moved to North Hampton, NH and is working as a kindergarten teacher at the Keystone
School in Chelmsford, MA. You can reach
Erin at erin_fay@msn.com.
2002 – Jonathan Hoysradt (Graphic
Design) emailed Jen Fuchel the other day
with an update on what he’s been doing
since leaving his first job, at 360Kid, after
graduation. “My quest for full-time work led
me to several non-design-related positions
including the mailroom of a financial company, the processing center for a mortgage
company, and a bouncer at a biker bar (just
kidding about that last one!). Oddly enough, I
found my niche at a computer company that
originally hired me as a temp to manage the
sales database. They found out I had some
design skills and asked me to update their
website (which, I think, was originally composed by a blind man using PowerPoint), so it
was uphill from there. …Soon enough I was
the graphic designer for the company…I’ve
also become the “Web Manager”, “Marketing
Manager”, and “Email Manager”. They hired
another graphic designer to work under me
[though] I’m still responsible for designing
most of the printed material. And while the
other designer manages the website, I do
all the Flash animation.” As Jonathan says, it’s
been a good way to gain a lot of experience
in a lot of different areas, especially management and computers. You can reach Jonathan
at jhoysradt02@comcast.net.
2002 – Nicole Wang (Graphic Design)
has relocated to Emeryville, CA and has
taken a position with Arc Worldwide in San
Francisco. Arc Worldwide deals in promotional, interactive, direct and shopper marketing, and is owned by the Publicis Group
which also owns Digitas, Nicole’s former employer. Nicole’s move followed a two-month
European vacation (“After working three
years straight in a fast-paced agency like that,
I felt I really needed a loooong vacation!”).
You can reach her at nwang@macbox.com.
2003 - Kseniya Galper (Graphic
Design) had her acrylic painting “Eugene”
chosen as Best in Show at the Quincy Art
Association’s Artsfest in September. There
were over 250 entries for this annual juried
show and it was the first time that she had
ever submitted her work anywhere, “so I was
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absolutely shocked when I was told that I’d
won “Best in Show :)”. Kseniya and Eugene
have just spent two weeks in Rome (“overwhelmingly beautiful”), perhaps celebrating
her success. You can reach her at kgalper@
gmail.com.
2004 – Juliana Abislaiman (Graphic
Design) has a new job with McCann
Erickson in Puerto Rico, having left Arteaga &
Arteaga Advertising. Contact her at abislaimanjuliana@hotmail.com.
2004 – Maryam Beydoun
(Graphic Design) caught up
with our designer Kate McLean
(2004 Graphic Design) in Paris
in July. Maryam was with Promoseven, a design firm in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, then moved
to McCann Erickson, but has
since left and is freelancing while
she decides whether to return
to school. Maryam spends several weeks a year in France, with
some time for shopping in Paris.
She and Kate had breakfast, “then wandered
down to the Musee Quai Branly to take
photos”. You can reach Maryam at maryambeydoun@mac.com.
2004 – Victoria Masters (Graphic
Design) has left Charity Folks and is now a
Junior Creative Director at Creative Gorillas,
also in New York. Creative Gorillas is an advertising and marketing firm with a number
of clients in the real estate and development field. Check out their work at www.
creativegorillas.com and get in touch with Vic
at vicmasters@gmail.com. You can also see
both her professional work and her stunning
photography at www.victoriamasters.com.
2005 – Peter Ferreira (Graphic
Design) is working as a Senior Graphic
Designer for Cox Communications in West
Warwick, RI. In addition, he has his own
design firm, called Kemelyen Media Lab, with
two freelance artists working with him on
various projects in print, multimedia, corporate and web design. Check their website
at www.kmedialab.com and email Peter at
peter.ferreira@cox.com.
2005 – Jennifer Kokx (MA in Interior
Design) has taken a position with the Boston design firm Gauthier-Stacy, a residential
interiors firm with clients around the country.
You can reach Jennifer at jkokx@comcast.net.
2006 – Debra Folz (Interior Design)
has left her job at Tsoi/Kobus & Associates
in Cambridge and has enrolled in the MFA
program in Furniture Design at Rhode Island
School of Design in Providence. Deb’s hoping to teach furniture design one day, perhaps
at NESADSU. You can get in touch with her
at debba5@aol.com.
2006 – Jill Garzik (Interior Design)
has recently taken a position with the
architectural and interiors firm Tsoi/Kobus &
Associates in Harvard Square, where she is
currently working on a project for Children’s
Hospital. At TKA, she joins Laura Nathanson
(2006 Graphic Design) who is a graphic
designer for the firm. You can reach Jill at
jgarzik@hotmail.com.
2006 – Kelly Ginn (Interior Design) is
working for the Architectural Heritage Foundation, located in Old City Hall in Boston.
AHF is an historic preservation development
firm and a pioneer in adaptive reuse since its
founding in 1966. You can get in touch with
Kelly at keli2342@aol.com.
2006 – Meaghan Moynahan (Interior
Design) has left the Patterson Group and
is now a Project Manager at Kitchen Living in
the Boston Design Center. You can reach her
at meaghanm@kitchen-living.com.
2006 – Kelly Pearson (Fine Arts)
was among a group of artists featured in
a sculpture show at the Aaron Gallery in
Washington, DC. Her steelwork sculpture,
Exterior no. 7 (2005), was on exhibit during
the month of October. You can reach Kelly at
kmartypea@hotmail.com.
2006 – Lisa Sobolewski (Interior
Design) moved to New York in June and
is currently working at Dupoux Design, a
firm with “cross-market expertise in the
fields of hospitality, real estate, construction
management and brand identity”. Dupoux
has recently expanded their operations to
include the Asia market, opening Dupoux
Design Asia in Taipei. Check out their website
at www.dupouxdesign.com and contact Lisa
at yasuadio@yahoo.com.
2007 – Jessica Aponte (Interior Design) is currently working at Eric Nelson Architects in Charlestown, a firm that provides
a wide range of design services for both new
buildings and significant renovations. You can
reach Jessica at skittja22@yahoo.com.
2007 – Billie Jo Baril (BFA Fine Arts
2000, MA in Interior Design) is working
as an interior designer at Eric Roseff Designs
in Boston. Eric Roseff is a full-service residential and commercial design firm. You can
reach Billie Jo at barilb@hotmail.com.
2007 – Erica Edwards (Interior Design) is NESADSU’s latest addition to the
workforce at Duffy Design Group in Boston,
where Atsu Ishikawa (Interior Design 2000)
was before she left to join Kahila Hogarth
(Interior Design 2006) at Nannette Lewis
Design in Chestnut Hill. You can reach Erica
at lordy7_7@hotmail.com, Atsu at superatsu@hotmail.com, and Kahila at kahila329@
hotmail.com.
2007 – Rebecca Emanuel (Interior
Design) has joined Barbara Sherman (Interior Design 1994) at Wilson Butler Architects,
a Boston firm specializing in designing for
the arts and entertainment. You can reach
Rebecca at raemanuel@gmail.com.
2007 – Nico Flannery-Pitcher (MA in
Interior Design) is currently working
at Steffian Bradley Architects in Boston. In
addition, Nico was recently married to Dave
Pitcher, an industrial designer with Rose
Displays Ltd. in Salem. Dave, who designs
signage hardware, and Nico have bought and
are currently renovating a house in Swampscott and hope to be in by October. Send
your congratulations to Nico and Dave at
nicoflannery@hotmail.com.
�2007 – Jade Jump (Graphic Design) has
landed a job at the Design Studio at Monitor in Cambridge, where she is a graphic
designer. The Design Studio has such clients
as MIT, Brandeis and Innovation Management
Inc., providing such services as marketing,
illustration, web design, logos and book
design. Check them out at www.designstudioatmonitor.com and get in touch with Jade
at jadejump@hotmail.com.
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2007 – Kimberly Kelly (Interior Design) and Danielle Tappis (MA in Interior Design) have both joined the Boston
office of Perkins & Will, the internationally-based design firm offering “innovations
in architecture, planning, interiors, branded
environments and strategy”. You can reach
Kim at kimakelly@gmail.com and Danielle at
danielle_paige@hotmail.com.
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2007 – Jessica Koff (MA in Interior
Design) has taken a position as an interior
designer with Bergmeyer in Boston. As such,
she is continuing another long-time tradition
with NESADSU graduates, many of whom
have passed through Bergmeyer’s door in
recent years. You can reach Jessie at jesskoff@
gmail.com.
2007 – Courtney Mitchell (Graphic
Design) has moved to New York and taken
a job as a Art Assistant at Women’s Wear
Daily, a division of Conde Nast and Fairchild
Publications. Women’s Wear Daily is a fashion
and business newspaper and “we also put
out dozens of magazines and supplements
every year. I deal primarily with the trafficking
of all the artwork and I also have been able
to design quite a lot so far. I wanted to thank
you [Laura Golly, to whom the email was
sent] because after I took your electronic
publications class I realized how much I love
publication design!” You can reach Courtney
at coumitch@verizon.net.
brown.com, Allison at allisonwrig@gmail.com,
Eduardo at eduardo_meza@gensler.com, and
Vy at vlan0525@yahoo.com.
2007 – Julianna Mongello (MA in Interior Design) and Pamela Muldowney
(MA in Interior Design) have both taken
positions with Cannon Design, an architectural, engineering and planning firm in Boston. You can reach Julianna at juliemongello@
hotmail.com and Pamela at pmuldowney@
mac.com.
2007 – Kaitlin Palaza (Interior Design)
has taken a job at Duncan Hughes Interiors
in Boston. Duncan Hughes is a full service
interior design firm specializing in commercial
and residential design. You can contact Kaitlin
at kaitlinpalaza@gmail.com.
2007 – Andrea Morin (Graphic
Design) is a Regional Marketing Coordinator at Great Source Education Group in
Wilmington, MA. Great Source, a division
of Houghton Mifflin Company, publishes
alternative, resource-based K-12 educational
materials. You can contact her at andrea_morin@hmco.com.
2007 – Naomi Nottingham (MA
in Interior Design) has joined fellow
NESADSU alumni Erika Brown (MA in
Interior Design 2004), Allison Wright (MA in
Interior Design 2006), Eduardo Meza (MA in
Interior Design 2003), and Vy Horwood (Interior Design 2003) at Gensler (all in Boston
except for Vy who is in the Arlington, VA office). With offices around the world, Gensler
is a multi-faceted firm that handles design
problems of all kinds, from city planning to
interior and graphic design. Check them out
at www.gensler.com. Contact Naomi at
naomi74@earthlink.net, Erika at riki@riki-
2007 – Elizabeth Olver (Interior
Design) has taken a position with TMD
Designs, a recently established firm in North
Hampton, NH. You can reach Liz at liz.olver@
gmail.com.
2007 – Helen Principio (Interior
Design) is a kitchen and bath designer at
the Expo Design Center in Burlington, MA.
You can reach her at hprincipio@yahoo.com.
2007 – Caitlin Ryan (Interior Design)
is an interior designer with JFS Design Studio
in Boston. JFS specializes in residential and
hospitality design. You can reach Caitlin there,
at caitlin@jfsdesignstudio.com.
2007 – Karen Urosevich (MA in
Interior Design) has joined the residential
design firm of Leslie Fine Interiors in Boston’s
Back Bay. You can reach Karen at karenurosevich@hotmail.com.
2007 – Shauna Wymyczak (Interior
Design) has taken a position at ADD, Inc. in
Cambridge, a firm that specializes in architecture, interior design, planning and branding.You
can reach Shauna at wymyczak@yahoo.com
SO SAD
TWO MORE CHILDREN
I just got the spring newsletter today and I am so sad
Olympia was considered a kook while she was at-
“I’ve been thinking about you guys over at NESA and
because I didn’t know Charles Giuliano retired! I was
tending BU’s theater arts school…but she was a good
realized I haven’t sent you a picture of the kids yet
reading the gallery schedule and I totally would have
actress. I was amazed when she suddenly started
gone to the reception. I was wondering why I would
appearing in movies, etc. Everyone from BU and
have just gotten the newsletter now?
NESA used to take a morning break and have lunch in
This came from Amy Joyce (Graphic Design
the cafeteria….I don’t remember anyone socializing
2000) and arrived on July 5th
with her except for a Greek girl who was in fashion
I had a feeling I was going to have to answer
for this and you all have my deepest apologies.
We have never had a firm publication deadline
for the newsletter (just sometime during the fall
and spring semesters) and all I can say is that
this semester several things conspired to make the
newsletter late in getting to you. First of all, the
NASAD reaccreditation took up an enormous
amount of time. I not only researched and wrote
the entire self-study (way over 300 pages of text
plus exhibits), but planned and saw to completion the three-day site visit. By the time that
was all over, we were into April.Then I got sick,
perhaps because the site visit coincided with the
first symptoms and there was no way I could stay
home and sleep! So I was out for a couple of
weeks and way behind on everything else by the
time I got back.Then Kate McLean, our designer,
was enjoying a very busy schedule herself. So,
one thing led to another and we were late. I’m
especially sorry as I know there are probably a
number of you who would have attended Charles’
party and did not know about it. At this late
date, all I can offer you is his email address
(charles_giuliano@yahoo.com) so that you can
write him and tell him….well, whatever you
wish to tell him.
design at NESA. I think her name was Athena.” [Good
THANKS FOR THE BLURB
said ‘Let’s skip this afternoon and go to the ball game.’
memory, James. That was probably Athena Doukakes,
class of 1957 and a Fashion Design major.)
“I was one of the ex-GI’s who were attending
NESA….Four of us lived together on Huntington
Avenue: Frank Raneo, Joe Almasian, Dick LaRoche and
me. Frank was one of the most talented of anyone I
went to school with. He was working for Remick’s
of Quincy while he was going to school, doing all the
newspaper ads for them. [Actress] Lee Remick was
the owner’s daughter. Frank promised to tell us when
she was around and set it up so we could meet her.
Never happened…. I always remember Frank had a
great sense of style. He always looked like one of his
ads. He’d also give us a critique when we dressed up
to go out. He also said two sport coats and three pair
of pants were all you need. I’m still using his advice!”
“Our life and anatomy instructor was John DanaBastian. He looked like Picasso. His favorite remark
gratulate you and the staff on the great articles and
work that you all continue to do. I’ve been busy taking care of the kids at home and also doing interior
design work. I just completed a Hookah Bar/Lounge
in Allston, the Nile Lounge…. It was a lot of fun creating and implementing the design.” George is also now
working as a teacher’s aide in the kindergarten at the
he took all of my watercolor brushes away from me
so I would ‘loosen up’…. I had a JWS Cox original
[watercolor]. Too bad I threw it out when I packed
to come home for the summer!… I bought a book
about Bill last summer. I never knew until then how
famous he had become. He had some of his work in
the Museum of Fine Arts when I was in school.”
“During my first year at NESA one of my classmates
I got my latest newsletter the other day and just
That was the first major league game I ever saw.
got the chance to sit down and read it. Another
September 1954. I was a Yankees fan at the time….
top-notch edition. Thanks for the blurb [a class note].
and used to go to the games when the Yankees were
The wording was perfect. I should have gotten to it
in town. Then, rather than risk getting beaten up by
[writing it myself] but the good news is I have been
Boston fans, I changed sides.
Bleacher seats were $1.50 at the time and Pinky Higgins was the manager…. Sometimes there were only
mer is going well and see you soon.
a few thousand people at the game…I remember
James Kraus (General Art 1982)
Mickey Mantle coming onto the field and talking to
the fans in the bleachers. I don’t think there is a Major
Barbara (Paine) Lyons of the NESA class of 1943 (Fashion
Illustration). Barbara was one of five alumnae, graduates of 1943
and 1944, who were honored at NESADSU’s 75th anniversary gala at
the Institute of Contemporary Art in November of 1998. Barbara was
originally from Randolph, MA. After graduating from NESA, she worked
as a fashion illustrator for a Boston department store, where she met her
future husband, Richard Lyons. She retired from Raytheon Corporation’s
publications department in 1989. Barbara is survived by two sons, Jeffrey
and Frederic Lyons, eight grandchildren and four great grandchildren.
I also just got the new newsletter and wanted to con-
favorite instructors was JWS Cox. I remember that
volunteer work that I never got to it. Hope the sum-
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of
[Editor’s Note: George and his partner, Joe (Suffolk
MPA 1998, JD 2000), adopted two more children
from Liberia in 2005. Now their family is made up
of Luke (age 5) and Noelle (4 1/2), plus Noah (4)
and Jocasta (2), who arrived in August of 2006.]
was ‘Make it go ‘round! Make it go ‘round!’ One of my
so busy with work, Little League [coaching] and other
Pa s s ag e s
T h e L a s t o f t h e C l a s s N ot e s
2007 – Jakob Grauds (Graphic Design)
took a job in June as a Graphic Designer
for Private Label Brands at CVS Corporate
Headquarters in Woonsocket, RI. “The job is
incredible, I get to be creative every day, and
I am learning an immense amount (not to
mention I now have a huge name like CVS
on my resume).” Before finishing at NESADSU, Jake worked as a Contributing Editor
on the new College of Arts and Sciences
magazine at Suffolk, contributing artwork and
photography along with past and present
students Jade Jump, Alison Balcanoff, Kevin
Banks, Colleen Barrett, Jeannie Belozersky,
Margaret Furlong, Matteo Gulla, Catherine
Headen, Kayla Hicks, Fanny Lau, Laura
Nathanson, Lisa Raad, Jessie Schloss, Eileen
Umba and Joanna Winters. You can reach
Jake at inhousejake@yahoo.com.
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EVERYDAY LIFE…
I’ve also been emailing back and forth with
James Towslee (Advertising Design 1957), who
found us on the web and has been filling me in
on things he remembers from his days at NESA.
Here, from several emails, are some tidbits:
“Have any of the students from my era mentioned
that we used to have coffee every morning with a
future Academy Award winner, Olympia Dukakis?…
Leaguer today who would be able to get out of the
locker room, much less play, with the pain he must
have endured. I saw a picture of him once after he
had been taped up so he could play. He looked like a
mummy!… At least I’ve lived long enough to see the
Sox win a World Series.”
James Towslee (Advertising Design 1957)
Johnson School in Nahant, where the children are
enrolled. He would love to hear from classmates so
please email him at gsyrigos@comcast.net.
George Syrigos (Interior Design 2002)
THANKS AGAIN
“Just wanted to drop a note and say thanks again for
including us in the last alumni newsletter. It’s always a
kick to see our stuff in print! Thanks for the support!”
Lianne and Paul (and Gryffin) Stoddard
(Graphic Design 1992), regarding the article
in the Spring alumni magazine on Swirly
Designs and Yankee magazine publicity.
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ALUMNI
focus
N E S A A l u m na S e rv e s H e r C ou n t ry: N ot i n I r aq
bu t i n Wor l d Wa r I I
S e c r e t i s ou t: S h e pu t I wo J i m a on t h e m a p
Local veteran was a mapmaker for the U.S. Navy in World War II
By James A. Kimble, Staff writer
SALEM, N.H. — Her role in helping to capture Iwo Jima was something she never told her husband or three children.
Now 83, a humble and soft-spoken Mary Habib still is reluctant to
go on about it. Her husband, Al, 86, shakes his head that he’s only
now learning how important his wife’s role was in World War II.
“She didn’t like to brag to the family,” he said, sitting at the couple’s
kitchen table. “I didn’t know about this until three weeks ago. We’ve
been married since 1950.”
Mary Habib softly adds with a smirk, “There’s some things I don’t tell.”
Mary Habib worked on a map used by the U.S. military in the critical
battle for Iwo Jima.That invasion ended with one of the most famous
moments in World War II, when five Marines and a sailor raised an
American flag atop the island’s highest point, Mount Suribachi.
Photographer Joe Rosenthal immortalized the flag raising with his
famous, posed, photograph — which became a topic of the recent
Clint Eastwood movie “Flags of Our Fathers.” While seeing a commercial for the movie on television, Mary Habib mentioned in front
of her oldest son, Bill, 55, she had worked on the Navy’s map for
the invasion.
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Mary (McCluskey) Habib, NESA class of 1943.
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This summer I had a call from former NESAD faculty member, Ed Germano, who told me that he had seen, on Fox TV, a story about a woman
who had served her country in World War II, by drawing maps for the invasion of Iwo Jima. Ed had noticed, while the story was being told, that the
camera had panned over a NESA diploma and he let me know he was going
to investigate. After a little detective work, through the mediums of both
television and newspaper, we found the story of Mary (McCluskey) Habib, a
1943 graduate of NESA. We are reprinting her story with the kind permission of the Eagle-Tribune Publishing Company and Mary Habib.
It was an incredible revelation for Bill Habib of North Andover,
who began peppering his mother with questions. “Then she went
into the next room and came out with a book and scrapbook,” Bill
Habib said. “That was the first time I ever saw it. I knew generally
of her naval background, her deployment and that she served as
a naval officer, but I didn’t know the extent of it.” The surprises
then came like one gigantic wave after another. Despite her years
of silence, Mary Habib kept a detailed record of her two and a half
years working as a Navy petty officer in the Washington, D.C., area.
Upon being honorably discharged from the Navy on July 22, 1946,
she was given a replica of the map of Iwo Jima she helped create
with her name embossed on it.
A ringed binder holds dozens of black-and-white photographs and
cartoon sketches she made of her office mates. They detail sightseeing around the city, too, serving as a guide to her memories.
One sketch shows a face, with eyebrows raised, looking down from
the top of the Washington Monument.
“I don’t like heights,” Habib said.
As the scrapbook reveals, it’s a dislike she overcame at times. A
half-dozen photos she took from a New York City rooftop give a
bird’s-eye view of a phalanx of soldiers marching down the street
in what seems like an endless parade. “It’s funny when you wear a
uniform, you can get in anywhere,” she said. “The funny thing about
a uniform is that it gives you a lot of courage.”
The highly detailed process of mapmaking was serious business,
but Mary Habib said workers in the cartography office were still
able to have fun. A favorite practical joke sailors played on newbies
was placing a fake blob of ink on top of a new girl’s work table
when they went to the bathroom, she recalled. “There was a lot of
civilian workers there, too. We had a good time. Those sailors were
quite the teasers,” Habib said.
A native of Lowell, Habib (then Mary Margaret McCluskey) enlisted
in an all-female division of the U.S. Navy known as WAVES, Women
Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Services. She graduated from
the New England College [School] of Art trained in graphic and
commercial design. The Navy sent her to Hunter College in New
York before she was assigned to the Pentagon’s Hydro-Graphics
Office in Suitland, Md. Mary Habib said in the 1940s mapmaking
was highly detailed but not what she expected when she first got
her assignment. “I was surprised,” she said. “There actually wasn’t
too much drawing. It was fine work. We did the coastline about
three miles in. The Air Force took pictures of the island, which we
had on a big drafting table.”
Houses were noted with spots the size of a pinhead. Precise details
of cliffs, craggy rocks and sandy areas were crucial so ship commanders would know where and how close vessels could approach
the shoreline. Habib said she was assigned to the WAVES not long
after it was formed. She worked there for two-and-a-half years
between 1944 to just after the war in 1946. A memorable highlight
from her stint in Washington, D.C., was an afternoon when Eleanor
Roosevelt invited Habib and female co-workers in the cartography office to tea at the White House. They spent time in the Blue
Room, one of three state parlors at the home of the president, and
later had punch and cakes in the dining room. “She was a lovely
woman,” Habib said of Roosevelt.
Like many families during the war, everyone in Habib’s family
contributed. Habib’s brother, Richard Jr., and sister, Kathleen, both
enlisted. Her mother, a nurse, worked part time in a parachute factory when not working her shifts at a hospital.
Habib said she had no idea the map she was helping create would
lead to such a significant turning point in the war. It wasn’t until
much later, when Rosenthal’s photograph of the flag raising on the
island became famous that she realized the significance of her con-
tribution to the war effort. Still, she refrained from speaking about
it. It simply wasn’t her way. “After the raising of the flag, I said to
myself, ‘OK, I was part of that,’” Habib said. “But I didn’t realize how
important it was at the time.”
Moved by his mother’s service, Bill Habib recently wrote a detailed
summary of her military career, which was displayed for Memorial Day with photographs of World War II veterans at St. Monica’s
Church in Methuen. “She’s not inclined to boast of herself,” Bill
Habib said. “Her humility is one of her many fine virtues. She would
consider talking about it bragging. That’s not her style.”
After the war, she married in 1950 and became a stay-at-home
mother raising three children. Her daughter, Mary Lee Pare, 50,
lives in Salem, N.H. Her youngest son, Michael, 45, lives in Methuen.
She worked briefly at General Electric and the Internal Revenue
Service, and only kept drawing as a hobby. She remains an active
member of American Legion Post 417, one of the few all-female Legion chapters in the area. The family lived in Methuen for 40 years.
Al and Mary Habib moved to Salem, N.H., about 10 years ago.
Al Habib has long been a fan of Mary’s artwork. He proudly shows
off drawings and sketches Mary etches in a room at the end of a
hallway inside their Azarian Road home. Bill Habib is thankful that
he’s finally learned the details of his mother’s military service. He
now believes there was greater meaning behind the television commercial being played.
“I don’t believe in coincidence anymore,” Bill Habib said. “I’m so
pleased and to a greater extent proud of her, even at this late stage
in life. If it was up to her, I think it would have remained hidden.”
Copyright © 2007 by Eagle-Tribune Publishing Company
Reprinted with permission S.C.
�Fac u lt y I n t e rv i e w
FACULTY
interview
A n I n t e rv i e w w i t h Nac e r B e n k ac i
Nacer Benkaci joined the NESADSU faculty as an adjunct instructor
in 2004, then was a Visiting Assistant
Professor before being elevated to
tenure-track status in 2006. Nacer
was born in Algeria and came to the
States in 1984, to pursue his studies
in architecture and design. He holds
a Diplome d’etat d’Architect (the
equivalent of a Bachelor’s degree
in Architecture) from the Ecole Polytechnique d’Architecture et
d’Urbanisme in Algiers, as well as Masters degrees in Architecture
and Urban Planning from the University of Southern California
in Los Angeles. With over 20 years of experience in architectural
practice in the U.S., Nacer has worked on both commercial and
residential projects here and abroad.
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Q. Let’s start with a bit of history. Tell us more about yourself.
I was born in 1959 in a small town by the sea, a few miles from
Algiers. My childhood was essentially marked by the Mediterranean
Sea which was a few feet from my parents’ home. Summer was the
occasion to literally live in it and be absorbed by its vast scale and
its potential to trigger a
multitude of voyages. The
I was surrounded by the large scale of the sea,
horizon was very close
the sky, and the mountains and that was in
to us at that time and we
dwelled in it as if it were
direct contrast with the smaller scale of the
part of our everyday lives.
homes and buildings along the edge of the sea.
It is perhaps why I still
I was interested in that relationship and the
have a keen interest in
forms, accidental or planned, that it generated. the concept and reality of
scale. I was surrounded by
the large scale of the sea,
the sky, and the mountains and that was in direct contrast with the
smaller scale of the homes and buildings along the edge of the sea.
I was interested in that relationship and the forms, accidental or
planned, that it generated.
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that some of the meaningful architects had on me. I was very
interested in the work of Corbusier, Louis Kahn and the “modern
movement” in general. Later I grew to appreciate some of the less
known architects and took their works as a source of inspiration
for my own work.
Q. How did you decide on the U.S. for graduate school and what
path brought you to Boston?
I wanted to learn more about architecture and design and pursuing
my studies is one way to do that. At that time, some of the most
influential ideas about architecture were being generated by prominent U.S. architects and thinkers and I wanted to experience that
first hand. I first came to Boston to study English, then to California
for architecture and urban design. I have always been interested
by the city in general and I felt the need to learn more about the
formulation of its shape. Urban planning became obvious for me as
I sought to understand the other forces that shape our cities. I had
some friends that invited me back to Boston; subsequently I was
offered a job. Fall in this area is my favorite season and I wanted to
stick around for a while. I stayed ever since!
Q. Talk a little about your professional experience. Where did you
work and what kind of work did you do?
After my graduation, I sought work in Boston. I worked for several
companies in the area and the work ranged from residential and
commercial to institutional and retail. I learned a great deal and I
believe that experience made me a better architect.
Q. Why do you teach (besides the paycheck!)?
I taught while working professionally. I enjoy very much the
academic work and the exchange of ideas and processes. Also, stu-
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dents are coming out with ingenious ways to resolve old problems
of design; perhaps the technology at their disposal allows them to
tackle issues from a different angle and make new uninvestigated
associations, new ways to manipulate space. Some of the projects
are just a leap forward in design thinking and I very much like being
a part of that. Teaching in reality goes both ways.
Q. How did you wind up at NESADSU? What do you like best
about the school and what keeps you here?
I first was invited to teach as an adjunct professor by Nancy [CoProgram Director Nancy Hackett]. She and I worked together on
several projects in the Boston area. Subsequently I have been hired
as a full time Assistant Professor.
One of the most impressive parts of the program in interior
design at NESADSU in my view is the fact that the ID department
is within a school of art and design. This association with art and
graphic design has a potential benefit for interior design students.
Interior architecture and architecture have always been inspired
by other disciplines and exposing students to a mutual influence is
enriching. The potential for innovation is greater.
Q. Why did you decide to become an architect?
I have always loved to draw and the landscape around me was
prone to that. Just think of the seascape. Obviously, this is just the
premise because as I was studying my passion for architecture
grew stronger. I found in architecture a total freedom of expression and a highly sophisticated creative process that embodies the
entire social, political, and economical issues that humans in general
face. I felt it was important. I also was interested by the theoretical
discourse that was developing in the profession and the influence
Another part that I appreciate greatly is the cooperative nature of the
faculty and the scholastic and pedagogical environment and the standard of care for the students’ progress. It really sets the school apart.
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Art & Design at Suffolk University
75 Arlington Street
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G a l l e ry S c h e du l e
GALLERY
schedule
2007
2008
Never Been Seen: Susan Nichter
2008 Student Exhibitions
Recent paintings by a NESADSU faculty member.
October 11th to November 10th
Reception: Friday, October 12th 6 – 8pm
Work by current students of The New England School of
Art & Design at Suffolk University
Ozspirations
Art Inspired by The Wizard of Oz, curated by Associate
Professor of Graphic Design Jennifer Fuchel.
November 15th to December 22nd
Reception: Friday, November 16th 6 – 8pm
2008
The 2007 Stephen D. Paine Scholarship
Award Winners and Honorable Mentions
exhibition
January 14th to February 9th
Reception: Friday, January 18th 5 – 7pm
Foundation
March 24th to April 4th
Reception: Friday, March 28th 5 – 7pm
Graphic Design (Undergraduate)
April 7th to April 18th
Reception: Friday, April 11th 5 – 7pm
Fine Arts
April 22nd to May 2nd
Reception: Friday, April 25th 5 – 7pm
Interior Design (Graduate and
Undergraduate)
Interventions and Objects: New Work
by Bebe Beard and Liz Nofziger
May 5th to May 16th
Reception: Friday, May 9th 5 – 7pm
February 14th to March 15th
Reception: Thursday, February 14th 6 – 8pm
Summer exhibition:TBA
Graphic Design (Graduate)
September 2nd to September 14th
Reception: TBA
Please call (617) 573-8785 to confirm dates and times of
exhibitions and opening receptions.
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And Then, NESAD alumni newsletter, no.13, Fall 2007
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