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P093_CV_Layout 1 6/27/12 9:25 AM Page 1 Lewis Katz Building University Park, PA 16802-1017 EXICON ADDRESS SERVICE REQUESTED L SUMMER 2012 ALUMNI & REUNION WEEKEND 2012 Jennifer Young: Friday, September 28 and Saturday, September 29 International Government Affairs Advocate Carlisle, Pennsylvania Dr. Mark Polin: New Life, New Career Caroline West: Innovation While Doing the Right Thing The Intersection of LAW and MEDICINE An evening view of the Tom and Laura Ridge Lobby, named by Gov. Thomas J. 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The Law School in location, but unified, commencement ceremony University Park hosted sessions of the Centre this year, with graduates and their families in County Court of Common Pleas while the San- both Carlisle and University Park, and with the dusky trial was under way in the Bellefonte entire proceeding joined via high-definition Courthouse. Probably the most inspiring as- cameras and audiovisual displays in both loca- pect of all of these judicial proceedings is the tions. We had separate brass ensembles in number of distinguished visiting judges who each location for the preludes, processionals are graduates of The Dickinson School of Law. and recessionals, but everything else was We also have used our technology for shared, including a truly inspiring commence- classes and seminars with students and faculty ment address by United States Court of participating simultaneously and in real-time Appeals Judge Thomas I. Vanaskie ’78, from the University of British Columbia, the and wonderful speeches by graduates University of Sydney, Cape Town University, Philip J. McConnaughay Zachary Brecheisen (in University Park) and the University of London, as well as from Dean and Donald J. Farage and Rebekah Saidman-Krauss (in Carlisle). Carlisle and University Park. You may have Professor of Law and We enjoyed elegant receptions for our gradu- read or heard about another of our interna- International Affairs ates and guests in both locations the evening tional programs in news reports about the trial before commencement and following com- in The Hague of alleged war crimes perpetrator mencement, and the weather cooperated Serbian General Ratko Mladic, accused of lead- throughout for an absolutely beautiful and ing the slaughter of over 8,000 Bosnian Mus- memorable two days. Families and friends lim men and boys. Dermot Groome, a member alike couldn’t get over how seamless and truly of our faculty, leads the Mladic prosecution. unified the ceremony seemed despite the dis- Students from the Law School have assisted tance between our two campuses, which is ex- him for the last two years on the case, spending actly how those of us at the Law School a summer or semester at the International experience daily life and classes throughout the Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia academic year. It was very gratifying for all of under his supervision. The Law School offers a us and for our graduates to share this experi- similar semester-long program with various ence with families and friends. federal agencies in Washington, D.C. (under We use our state-of-the-art audiovisual the supervision of famed defense lawyer and technology in many ways that enrich the aca- former General Counsel of the U.S. House of demic life of the Law School in addition to sim- representatives, Professor Stan Brand), and ply transmitting our upper-level classes similar legal study abroad opportunities at between University Park and Carlisle. Recently, leading