WINTER The 2007 DICKINSON LAWYER REVIVING THE LABOR MOVEMENT A LETTER FROM THE DEAN MANAGING EDITOR he Dickinson School of Law kicked off 2007 with a number of exciting developments. Kelly R. Jones First and foremost, we were delighted to announce the two largest contributions in the history of the Law School: a $15 million gift from philanthropist Lewis Katz ’66, EDITOR founder of Katz, Ettin & Levine and former owner of the New Jersey Nets basketball Pam Knowlton Tfranchise, and a $4 million pledge from H. Laddie Montague Jr. ’63, managing principal of Berger CONTRIBUTORS & Montague, P.C. (See page 14 for full story.) Mr. Katz’s and Mr. Montague’s efforts and contribu- Mark Podvia tions on behalf of The Dickinson School of Law during the past few years have been extraordinary, Ed Savage Dyanna Stupar almost beyond description. A special issue of The Dickinson Lawyer, that we will publish in the next few weeks, will feature their efforts and contributions, and those of other DSL alumni, to our PHOTOS Carlisle Building Campaign. The University expressed its deep appreciation to Mr. Katz and Mr. Rick Bielaczyc Ian Bradshaw Photography Montague when the Penn State Board of Trustees voted unanimously on January 19, 2007, to Kelly R. Jones name the new signature additions to the Law School’s Carlisle facilities Dyanna Stupar Lewis Katz Hall; the Law School’s new building in University Park the Lewis Katz Building; and the Law School’s unified library the H. Lad- ILLUSTRATIONS James Yang die Montague Jr. Law Library. These generous donations, donations from other generous Law TECHNICAL SUPPORT School alumni and friends, $10 million from the University, and $25 Dian Franko million in matching funds from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania DESIGN have provided a $50 million budget for our Carlisle building project (as Claude Skelton well as a wonderfully significant increase in the Law School’s endow- ment). Polshek Partnership Architects of New York already have new The Dickinson Lawyer is published for designs under way for Carlisle that incorporate a renovated Trickett alumni, students, staff, and friends of The Dickinson School of Law of The Pennsyl- Hall with state-of-the-art additions and that will ensure a dignified vania State University. Correspondence may be addressed to the editor. Portions of Carlisle home for our Law School for generations to come. Please visit this magazine may be reprinted if credit is the Law School’s Web site at www.dsl.psu.edu to see our Carlisle plans as they emerge. given to The Dickinson School of Law, The Dickinson Lawyer, and the author. We also are moving forward with our new University Park facility. On January 18th, Law School students, faculty, staff and alumni and University officials helped us celebrate the start of This publication is available in alternative media on request. construction in University Park with a commemorative groundbreaking ceremony. Special remarks The Pennsylvania State University is com- were offered by Penn State President Graham Spanier, Lewis Katz, Secretary of the Commonwealth mitted to the policy that all persons shall of Pennsylvania Pedro A. Cortés ’99, PA Supreme Court Justice Cynthia A. Baldwin (who is the have equal access to programs, facilities, admission, and employment without regard immediate past chair of the University’s Board of Trustees), and Richard Olcott, the lead design to personal characteristics not related to ability, performance, or qualifications as architect from Polshek Partnership for our new buildings. You can watch construction as it occurs determined by University policy or by state on our Law School web site. or federal authorities. It is the policy of the University to maintain an academic and The following day, the University Board of Trustees approved the establishment of a new School work environment free of discrimination, including harassment. The Pennsylvania of International Affairs to be housed administratively within The Dickinson School of Law. This State University prohibits discrimination arrangement offers significant opportunities for Law School students in both of our locations to ben- and harassment against any person because of age, ancestry, color, disability efit from the programs and classes of a multidisciplinary professional graduate school destined to or handicap, national origin, race, religious become soon one of the world’s great School of International Affairs. (See page 16 for full story.) creed, sex, sexual orientation, or veteran status. Discrimination or harassment It has been my pleasure to meet with many of you at our recent alumni events and to share against faculty, staff, or students will not be tolerated at The Pennsylvania State Uni- with you these and other updates. I look forward to seeing many more of you at future events. If versity. Direct all inquiries regarding the you have suggestions for or would like to help plan an event for your area, please email our alumni nondiscrimination policy to Doris Orner, Human Resources Officer, The Dickinson office at [email protected]. School of Law, 150 South College Street, Carlisle, PA 17013-2899; tel 717-240-5284 U.Ed. DSL 07-51. With best wishes to all Law School alumni, WINTER 2007 The DICKINSON LAWYER FEATURES One for the History Books An Interview with Ellen Dannin Law School librarian and archivist Mark Podvia is Professor Dannin discusses her passion for and the collecting information12 about life as you remember it at DSL rebuilding26 of the labor law movement The Duke Celebrates Law School Hosts International Golden Anniversary Criminal Justice Symposium Professor Del Duca hits a milestone in his The Honorable Mary Robinson, former president of distinguished Law School teaching career 13 Ireland,31 delivers keynote address DSL Announces Two Alumni & Reunion Weekend 2006 Largest Gifts in School History Four alumni honored as part of festivities Lewis Katz and H. Laddie Montague Jr. contribute a combined14 $19 million to Law School 32 Scholarship Recipients School of International Affairs Share Their Appreciation Penn State University’s Board of Trustees approves the establishment of a new School of International Students Meghan Cashman and Ronni Bright Affairs intimately linked to the Law School tell how scholarships have impacted their lives 16. 34 Reviving the Labor Movement Law School Remembers An excerpt from Professor Ellen Dannin’s recently Two Educational Icons published book Taking Back the Workers’ Law The Law School mourns the passing of professors 18 Joseph Burns35 Kelly and Arthur Saul Frankston DEPARTMENTS 2 / In Brief 6 / Faculty & Staff News Penn State Dickinson Student Elected Secretary of NAPALSA Scholarship, Activities and Achievements Northeast Dinner Honors Santorum 38 / Listening Post Law School Visitor Speaks on Drugs in Sports Alumni Class Notes, In Memorium Penn State Dickinson Wins VITA Award Lace Up for the 2007 Race Judicata Award Named in Honor of Retiring Adjunct Klett Named PSU Alumni Fellow Golden Sworn in as U.S. District Court Judge 2 THE DICKINSON LAWYER inBRIEF PENN STATE DICKINSON STUDENT ELECTED expressed his deep regret at not being able chief judge of the U.S. District Court for SECRETARY OF NAPALSA to attend, thanked his peers for selecting the Middle District of Pennsylvania; Penn- Penn State Dickinson School of Law him as the award recipient and expressed sylvania Supreme Court Justice Mike student Jacqueline Calahong was elected his gratitude for the education he received Eakin ’75; and U.S. District Judge for the secretary of the National Asian Pacific Law through The Dickinson School of Law. Middle District of Pennsylvania John E. Student Association at the 18th Annual Santorum is now a Senior Fellow of Jones III ’80. National Asian Pacific American Bar Asso- the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a con- ciation Convention held November 9-12 servative think-tank in Washington, D.C., LAW SCHOOL VISITOR SPEAKS ON DRUGS in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. and heads its new America’s Enemies program. IN SPORTS Calahong, a first-year law student, is Santorum was first elected to the Sen- This past January, the Penn State the 1L representative of Penn State Dick- ate in 1994 and later served as chairman Institute for Sports Law, Policy and inson’s local chapter of APALSA. Her one- of the Senate Republican Conference. In Research year term as secretary of the national chap- this position, Santorum directed the com- welcomed ter runs from November 2006 through munications operations of the Senate Professor November 2007. Calahong graduated Republicans and was the third-ranking Hayden from the University of Michigan-Ann member of the Senate Republican leader- Opie from Arbor and hopes to concentrate her legal ship. He also served on the Senate Aging, the Univer- studies in the areas of international and Agriculture, Banking, Finance and Rules sity of Mel- environmental law. committees. Prior to his election to the bourne, NAPALSA, the first and oldest Asian Senate, Santorum served in the U.S. Australia, as Pacific American law student organization, House of Representatives and was an its first is dedicated to “promoting education, attorney for Kirkpatrick and Lockhart in internation- leadership, community awareness, com- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In addition to al visitor. munication and interaction amongst the his J.D. from the Law School, he has an Opie is the various Asian Pacific American law stu- undergraduate degree in political science director of dents across the country.” More informa- from Penn State and an M.B.A. from the studies of tion about NAPALSA including member- University of Pittsburgh. the Melbourne Sports Law Program and is ship information can be obtained by The Annual Northeast Pennsylvania one of the world’s leading experts on tort visiting www.napalsa.org on the Web. Alumni Dinner has honored many of the and sports law. The topic of his lecture was Law School’s most accomplished alumni “Current Legal and Regulatory Issues in including Governor Tom Ridge ’72, the NORTHEAST DINNER HONORS SANTORUM Drugs in Sport.” first secretary of the U.S.