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Annual Philanthropy Report 2009-2010 University of Maine School of Law annual Philanthropy report 2009-2010 Alumni University of Maine School of Law Foundation Honors Board of Directors Three esteemed Maine Law alumni received well- Officers Peter J. DeTroy III ’72 Pasquale F. Maiorino ’73 Partner, Norman Hanson Of Counsel, Trafton deserved honors from their David J. Evans ’78’ & DeTroy & Matzen alma mater this year. The Law President Portland, ME Auburn, ME School faculty selected David Partner, Clifford Chance Washington, DC Ben Devine, ‘87 Craig H. Nelson ’69 Evans, (’78), partner at the Great Island Development Senior Partner, Doyle law firm Clifford Chance and Jean M. Deighan ’76 Group & Nelson President of the University of Vice-President President, Deighan Associates Boston, MA Augusta, ME Maine School of Law Foun- Bangor, ME Hon. Caroline D. glassman kenneth S. Spirer dation, as recipient of the L. Michael R. Currie ’80 Retired Associate Justice, Retired, Portland, ME Kinvin Wroth Distinguished Treasurer Maine Supreme Judicial Court Paula D. Silsby ’76 Alumnus Award. Managing Director, Portland, ME Retired, Portland, ME The Maine Law Alumni HM Payson & Co. John W. gulliver Ira J. Waldman ’76 Association presented Portland, ME Partner, Pierce Atwood Partner, Cox, Castle Rosalyne Bernstein (’86), Peter C. Mckenney ’77 Portland, ME & Nicholson philanthropist and community Secretary Steven a. Hammond ’77 Los Angeles, CA leader, with its Distinguished Retired, Partner, Hughes Hubbard Ex Officio Service Award. Cumberland Center, ME & Reed Peter Pitegoff The Women’s Law As- New York, NY Directors Dean, University of Maine sociation of the University of Eleanor M. Baker ’78 David B. Hawkes ’69 School of Law Maine School of Law pre- Owner and Consultant, Principal, Baker Newman Elena Brandt sented its 2010 Outstanding Triplehawk, Inc. & Noyes Director of Development & Alumna Award to Alice Clifford Winter Harbor, ME Portland, ME Alumni Relations (’88), Assistant District Attorney Rosalyne Bernstein ’86 James a. Houle ’81 University of Maine for Penobscot and Piscataquis Retired, Portland, ME Partner, Bernstein Shur School of Law Counties in Maine and an Portland, ME James M. Bowie ’77 Cornelia S. Fuchs ’90 expert in domestic violence Partner, Thompson & Bowie Robert a. Laskoff ’70 President, University of Maine prosecutions. Portland, ME Senior Partner, Laskoff Law Alumni Association & Associates Martha Casey ‘82 Lewiston, ME Partner, O’Neill Athy & Casey Washington DC We want to hear University of Maine Law Alumni Association from you Board of Directors Share your news about Officers Directors Ex Officio new jobs, honors & awards Cornelia Fuchs ’90 Sarah E. ashby ‘02 Peter Pitegoff and milestones in upcoming President andrew J. Bernstein ‘80 Dean Maine Law Publications kelly Hoffman ’08 Frank H. Bishop, Jr. ‘06 Prof. Melvyn Zarr To share your news, Vice President Faculty Representative Sarah McCready Boston ‘03 please contact Mary Roy, Bruce Mcglauflin ’96 Elena Brandt J. Bradford Coffey ‘92 Assistant Director of Devel- Treasurer Director of Development & Peter J. DeTroy III ’72 opment and Alumni Rela- M. Thomas Trenholm ’08 Alumni Relations tions, by e-mail at mroy@ Secretary Domna giatas ‘88 Mary Roy usm.maine.edu; or by phone Paul J. greene ‘07 Assistant Director of Develop- at (207) 228-8411. You can Beth Harris Hoffman ‘08 ment & Alumni Relations also log on to the Maine Law Steven g. Saunders ‘92 Tina Claypoole Alumni Community at www. Wil Smith ‘06 Financial Manager mainelawalum.org and click victoria Silver ‘12 Ilse Teeters-Trumpy ‘06 on “My Class Notes,” located President, SBA at the top of the home page. Christine C. vito ‘93 30 MAINE LAW MAGAZINE SUMMER 2011 University of Maine School of Law and Maine Law Foundation Funds selected speakers (2010-2011) Generous supporters of Maine Law helped make Endowed Funds the following presentations possible at Maine Law. American College of Trial Lawyers Libra Professorship Fund Julius “Jack” Getman. Sept. 13, 2010. Renowned labor law scholar (ACTL) Trial Advocacy Fund Gov. James B. Longley Memorial and activist and the Earl E. Sheffield Regents Chair Professor of Law Kenneth and Marjorie C. Baird Scholarship Fund at the University of Texas at Austin Law School. Memorial Scholarship Macdonald Family Scholarship Jennifer B. Wriggins. Sept. 17, 2010. The Sumner T. Bernstein Dudley Baldwin Book Fund Fund Professor of Law at the University of Maine School of Law Laurie L. Balmuth Scholarship Merle W. Loper Fund for —Constitution Day Lecture. Fund International Programs Jeffrey A. Thaler. Sept. 22, 2010. Environmental Law Expert and Israel and Sumner Bernstein Maine Law Foundation shareholder at Bernstein Shur in Portland. Memorial Scholarship Fund Professorship Fund Stephanie Showalter & Melissa Trosclair Daigle. Sept. 27, 2010. Sumner T. Bernstein Professorship Maine Law Foundation Director of the National Sea Grant Law Center, and Legal Director at of Law Scholarship Fund the Louisiana Sea Grant Center, respectively. Bernstein District Court Maine State Bar Legal Education USPTO Director David Kappos. Oct. 8, 2010. U.S. Undersecretary Fellowship Fund & Trust Fund of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the U.S. Patent William Bingham Scholarship Vincent L. McKusick Diversity and Trademark Office. Fund Fellowship Dr. Christina Hoff Sommers. Oct. 18, 2010. Resident Scholar at Bride Family Fund for Business, David Santee Miller Memorial the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. Entrepreneurship and the Law Scholarship Fund Governor Angus King. Oct. 20, 2010. Former two-term Governor of Class of 1971 Memorial New Hampshire Scholarship Fund Maine and an attorney at Bernstein Shur Government Solutions. Scholarship Fund Osher Scholarship Fund Laura Underkuffler. Oct. 22, 2010. J. DuPratt White Professor of Class of 1973/Glassman Faculty Pierce Atwood Scholarship Fund Law at Cornell and the Distinguished Edward S. Godfrey Visiting Research Scholar Fund Professor at Maine Law in Fall 2010. Justice Harold J. Rubin Class of 1976/David D. Gregory Scholarship Fund Stephen Oleskey. Oct. 26, 2010. Boston-based partner in the Library Acquisition Fund international law firm WilmerHale, and 18th Annual Frank M. Coffin Justice Abraham M. Rudman Lecturer on Law and Public Service. Class of 1979/David D. Gregory Scholarship Fund Scholarship Fund Professors Odile Delfor & Valerie Bore Eveno. Oct. 27, 2010. Shur Frinsko Award for Municipal Environmental and public law professors at Nantes University in France. Frank M. and Ruth Coffin Fund Law and Local Governance for Law and Public Service Dr. Harris Gleckman. Nov. 1, 2010. Consultant to the United Nations Charles W. Smith Memorial Fund Philip M. Dusini Scholarship and a project director for the Institute for Environmental Security. Fund Levi M. Stewart Fund Greg LeRoy. Nov. 16, 2010. Founder and executive director of Good Elliott Family Scholarship Fund TD Banknorth Scholarship Fund Jobs First, which promotes corporate and government accountability in economic development. Richard H. Fay Memorial Thompson Fund Scholarship Fund Lewis V. Vafiades Scholarship Fund David Ray. Feb. 9, 2011. Shareholder at Bernstein Shur and chair of the firm’s Construction Group. Donald L. Garbrecht Law Library Verrill Dana Public Service Endowment Fund Fellowship Megan Hannan. Feb. 16, 2011. Public Affairs Director for Maine for Planned Parenthood of Northern New England. Justice Harry P. Glassman Justice Elmer H. Violette Fund for Memorial Scholarship Fund International Programs Dana Totman. March 15, 2011. President and CEO of Avesta Housing. Edward S. Godfrey Fund Violette/Lombard Scholarship Panel Discussion: Egypt in Transition. March 28, 2011. Maine Law Fund hosted a World Affairs Council panel discussion on Egypt in Transition: Morris and Sylvia Greenberg What does it mean for the Arab World and for US Policy? Panelists: Dr. Daniel E. Wathen Writing Prize Scholarship Fund Selma Botman, President of the University of Southern Maine, Mahmud Charles A. Harvey Jr. Fellowship Wernick Legal Writing Prize Faksh, Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Arlana K. and Pierce B. Hasler Betsy and Peter Wiley Scholarship Southern Maine, Charles Dunbar, retired US Ambassador, and Kathleen Memorial Fund Fund Kinawy Sutherland, researcher on Egyptian society. Horace S. Libby Memorial Fund Woodcock Family Scholarship Fund David Littell. April 1, 2011. Former Commissioner of the Maine Department of Environmental Protection and current Chairman of the Maine Public Utilities Commission. Non-Endowed Funds Tim Sandefur. April 6, 2011. Adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute and a Principle Attorney at the Pacific Legal Foundation in Alumni Association Scholarship Gignoux Special Collection Library Sacramento. Fund Fund David Shaw. April 13, 2011. Managing partner at Black Point Group. Richard H. Armstrong Scholarship Edward T. Gignoux Memorial Fund Eric Biber. May 9, 2011. Environmental law expert and professor at Henry N. Berry III Law Student Edward S. Godfrey Loan Fund the University of California at Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law. Loan Fund Merle W. Loper Loan Fund Cynthia Mabry. May 15, 2011. Professor at Howard University Cumberland Bar Association Norwood Loan Fund School of Law, and an expert in family law. Fellowship Maine Public Interest Fellowship Judge D. Brock Hornby. May 21, 2011. Federal judge in the United George P. Davenport Loan Fund Fund States District Court for the District of Maine, delivered the keynote address at this year’s
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