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This is a time of significant international connection

for The Dickinson School of Law, continuing our

tradition of international reach. Our first interna-

tional student, Issa Tanimura of Tokyo, Japan, gradu-

ated in 1892, and our faculty has a long and distinguished history

of international collaborations. This summer we will launch an

intensive four-week program in Istanbul to introduce American

legal principles to lawyers from Eastern Europe, the Middle East,

the Caucasus, and Central Asia.Taught by Dickinson School of

Law professors, the program likely will serve as a gateway to our

expanding LL.M. program here in Pennsylvania.

Our World on Trial project with Penn State Public Broad-

casting now includes over twenty partner universities worldwide

that serve as sites for the remote juries hearing and deciding the

human rights trials featured in each episode. The pilot episode of

World on Trial includes juries from the University of Edinburgh,

Cape Town University, Hong Kong University, Sciences Po in

Paris, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Yeditepe University in Is-

tanbul, and Peking University School of Transnational Law in

Shenzhen.

This issue of Lexicon also features a heartwarming and in-

spiring international humanitarian effort undertaken by Lewis

Katz ’66 on behalf of a desperately ill young Haitian refugee in

Phoenix whose mother and sisters were stranded in Haiti.

This issue also brings news about alumni committed to im-

proving our environment. Richard Erdmann ’73 has negoti-

ated thousands of land deals that have conserved millions of

acres of land for local communities. Gregory Blasi ’75 finances

renewable energy. Michael Brammick ’90 helps to diversify

our global energy supply as vice president of NRG Energy. Former

Department of Environmental Protection lawyer Justina

Wasicek ’75 spends her retirement encouraging neighborly

solutions to environmental issues.

These high-voltage alumni inspire, just as the Law School

works to inspire new graduates to varied achievements in our

global community.

With warm regards to our alumni and friends,

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FEATURES

11 FRANK WAGNER REFLECTS ON HIS SUPREME COURT CAREER

14 HIGH-VOLTAGE ALUMNI

21 TRASH TO TREASURE:

THE EVOLUTION OF BROWNFIELD DEVELOPMENT

24 WHAT’S AROUND THE CORNER IN MARCELLUS SHALE DEVELOPMENT

25 WHY I TEACH: Q&A WITH JOHN LOPATKA AND NANCY WELSH

27 FEATURED FACULTY SCHOLARSHIP: AGENCY INTERPRETATIONS

DEPARTMENTS

2 BY THE NUMBERS

3 ON CAMPUS

7 ALUMNI NEWS

29 FACULTY HIGHLIGHTS

33 GIVING

36 CLASS NOTES

40 IN MEMORIAM

41 ANNUAL REPORT

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EDITOR

Crystal L. Stryker ’04

EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

Veronica Padilla ’12

DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT

Kelly Rimmer

DIRECTOR OF ALUMNI RELATIONS

Robin Fulton

EDITORIAL BOARD

Professor Harvey Feldman ’69

Ellen Foreman Director of Marketing and Communications

Jessica Holst ’98Attorney, MidPenn Legal Services

Alison Kilmartin ’09 Associate, Jones Day

Professor Marie T. ReillyAssociate Dean for Academic Affairs

Alice Richards ’11

Professor Megan Riesmeyer ’03

Professor Victor C. Romero

Dyanna StuparAlumni Relations Coordinator

Hannah Suhr ’11

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School of Law of The Pennsylvania State

University. Correspondence may be adressed

to the editor. Portions of this magazine may

be reprinted if credit is given to The Dickinson

School of Law, Lexicon, and the author.

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cases settled by James

Ronca ’77 to date.

6.7 million acres preserved by The

Conservation Fund, spearheaded

by Richard Erdmann ’73.

211$50,000

people who have ever held the position

Reporter of Decisions at the United States

Supreme Court, a position from which

Frank Wagner ’70 has retired.

people attended the Marcellus Shale law and policy

interdisciplinary symposium hosted by the Penn

State Environmental Law Review.

B Y T H E N U M B E R S

pages Professor Samuel Thompson needed to share his life’s

knowledge in his new four-volume treatise Mergers, Acquisitions

and Tender Offers: Law and Strategies (Practicing Law Institute

2010).

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single foundation grant that

enabled Richard Erdmann ’73

and Patrick Noonan to found

The Conservation Fund.


By Pam Knowlton

Students in the Civil Rights Appellate Clinic

traveled to the U.S. Supreme Court to observe

oral arguments in Staub v. Proctor on Novem-

ber 2, 2010. They also met privately with some

of the most brilliant legal minds in the country,

including Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

During an informal question and answer

session, Justice Sotomayor discussed the differ-

ences among her roles

as a trial judge in the

federal district court,

an appellate judge on

the Second Circuit

Court of Appeals, and

her work on the

Supreme Court.

Students also met

with attorney David

Frederick, one of the nation’s most respected ap-

pellate advocates and a partner in the Washing-

ton, D.C., firm Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd &

Evan, P.L.L.C. Frederick has argued thirty cases

before the Court and has demonstrated his abil-

ity to persuade conservative justices to take pro-

consumer positions.

“It was inspiring to meet with the distin-

guished author and experienced appellate attor-

ney David Frederick, who described oral

advocacy as an opportunity to educate the

Court,” said master of laws student Sara

Humphries ’11. “Mr. Frederick spoke to us about

case preparation and explained how newer attor-

neys can be valuable in that process. We were all

genuinely impressed that he took time to meet

with us, especially in the middle of preparing for

cases that he has pending before the Supreme

Court.”

Last spring Clinic students served as co-

counsel on behalf of three civil rights organiza-

tions and filed an

amicus brief in support

of Staub. The Court ul-

timtely reached an 8-0

decision in Staub’s

favor on March 1, 2011.

After observing

oral argument, the stu-

dents met Eric Schnap-

per, the attorney who

argued the case on behalf of Staub, and Eric

Miller, Assistant Solicitor General, who argued

the case for the U.S. Government as amicus

curie, and discussed their impressions of the ar-

guments.

“Students were not only able to see a cut-

ting-edge employment issue argued before the

highest court in the land, but then they were able

to work through an analysis of the arguments

made before the court by the attorney who actu-

ally argued it. This wasn’t theoretical, it was real

and they were a part of it,” said Michael Fore-

man, clinical professor and director of the clinic.

STUDENTS MEET

JUSTICE SONIA

SOTOMAYORAND SUPREME COURT LITIGATORS

“It was inspiring to meet with

the distinguished author and

experienced appellate attorney

David Frederick, who described

oral advocacy as an opportunity

to educate the Court.”

Penn State University Dickinson School of Law • Spring 2011 3

O N C A M P U S


O N C A M P U S

Penn State Public Broadcasting released a preview

of the pilot episode World on Trial, an educational tel-

evision and interactive web series exploring both sides

of sharply contested human rights issues. “It’s ex-

tremely gratifying to see the pilot episode coming to-

gether,” said Philip McConnaughay, dean of the Law

School and an executive producer of the series. “In ad-

dition to the courtroom arguments viewers get a look

inside how juries from around the world would debate

these issues as they render verdicts.”

Conceived of and hosted by acclaimed human

rights advocate, author, and Penn State Law professor

Randall Robinson, the program challenges viewers by

exploring the tension between Universalist and cultur-

ally-relative notions of human rights and the various

defenses available to states with respect to alleged

human rights abuses within their control.

World on Trial is filmed before a live jury. Remote

juries at partner universities throughout the world

view films of the trial and also render verdicts. Verdicts

are reported at the conclusion of each episode. The

pilot episode deals with the French law forbidding the

wearing of conspicuous religious garb in public schools.

For more information about the program, visit

www.worldontrial.psu.edu.

PREVIEW OF

WORLD ON TRIALRELEASED

Charles Ogletree, Jesse Climenko Professor of Law and director of theCharles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at HarvardLaw School, leads the challenge to the 2004 French headscarf law.

Karima Bennoune, Professor of Law and Arthur L. Dickson Scholar atRutgers School of Law, testifies for the defense. From 1995 until 1999,Professor Bennoune was based in London as a legal adviser atAmnesty International. She sits on the Council of the Network ofWomen Living Under Muslim Laws.



Professor Charles Ogletree and French avocat Rémy Schwartz address Cherie Booth Q.C.Schwartz is Associate Professor at the University of Paris 1 and chairs the seventh subsection of the Conseil d'Etat, France's Council of State.

Defense witness Hanifa Cherifi is a leadingsociologist and a member of the FrenchRepublic's High Council for Integration.

Professor Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia addressed the court as jury moderator.She is a clinical professor of law and directs the Center for Immigrants' Rights at Penn State Law.

“World on Trial is a program of trials to deter

mine whether nations around the world, na

tions that have ratified major human rights

conventions, have complied with the conven

tions they ratified. We have the best legal talent

in the world, the best judges, the best attor

neys, and the best witnesses, to put countries

on trial to measure the extent to which they

have or have not complied with international

human rights law.”

— Professor Randall RobinsonHost, World on Trial



By Ellen Foreman

For eighty students from State College Area

High School, the “pressure” of presenting oral ar-

guments in the state-of-the-art Apfelbaum Family

Courtroom raised their performance level. “It’s

much more formal, more realistic,” said high

school senior Chloe DeOnna. Though she was not

sure how her four fellow students acting as U.S.

Supreme Court justices would rule, she felt that

everyone involved was getting a taste of what it

would be like to argue a case in a real courtroom.

Her ambition is to pursue a degree in criminal justice.

Prior to presenting their arguments, the stu-

dents were required to write briefs on three cases

on matters of interest to public school students

such as expulsion due to sexual orientation and

drug searches. About a dozen Penn State Law stu-

dents volunteered to help. “I was astonished at the

level of thought put

into the questions I

received,” said sec-

ond-year law student

Linnea Ignatius, who

holds a B.S. in inter-

national relations and

foreign languages

from Georgia Tech.

She volunteered to as-

sist because she remembered how much she en-

joyed being mentored by older people. “When I

was in high school I did moot court. It’s always

cool to get perspective from someone who is more

on your plane.”

“This is so exciting for us,” said organizer

Andy Merritt, who has been teaching within the

district for fifteen years. “We had been arguing

cases in a tiny counseling office when it occurred

to me that we have a great law school right here in

town,” Merritt said, adding that everyone at the

Law School from the administration to the stu-

dents had been “amazing” in their willingness to

help. “My kids got excellent input from the law

students—incredibly thor-

ough and comprehensive.

They went above and be-

yond anything I had ex-

pected.”

Law student Marcos

Fernandez ’11 said that he

benefitted from the expe-

rience as well. “The pro-

fessors here at Penn State Law have enabled me to

see through the loud rhetoric and make sense of

the real issues. Being able to pass this learning on

to a younger generation seemed like the only right

thing to do,” he said, adding that he appreciated

the refresher on core terms a few months before

taking the bar exam. Fernandez said that he “fully

anticipates seeing some of these students litigating

in a courtroom in a decade or so.”

HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

GET THEIR DAY IN COURT

“This is so exciting for us. We had

been arguing cases in a tiny

counseling office when it occurred

to me that we have a great law

school right here in town.”

O N C A M P U S

Marcos Fernandez ’12 meets with student Nick Lyon, an advancedplacement student of U.S. history at State College Area High Schoolin the Apfelbaum Family Courtroom.



A L U M N I N E W S

By Robin Fulton

James Ronca has settled twenty federal

and nineteen state Trasylol cases for $19.9 mil-

lion and was recently named co-lead counsel for

the plaintiff’s steering committee in the U.S. Dis-

trict Court for the Southern District of Florida.

About 2,000 cases have already been filed in the

district. Ronca also serves as plaintiff’s liaison

counsel in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court.

Ronca explained that he and his colleagues

saw the reports of retrospective studies linking

the drug to kidney problems and higher mortal-

ity rates. Coincidentally, a referral lawyer asked

him to review a case involving the drug. He be-

lieves the suit his team filed may have been first

in the nation.

Produced by Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuti-

cals, Trasylol was approved by the FDA in 1993

as a means to prevent extreme blood loss in car-

diac surgery patients. In 2008, Bayer pulled Tra-

sylol from the market in response to allegations

that the drug may be linked to incidences of kid-

ney failure and stroke in patients.

“The science is challenging on two levels.

First, you have to make the generic case that the

drug can cause serious side effects in individu-

als,” said Ronca. “Epidemiology can be tricky be-

cause the many variables that go into a

statistically significant finding are fraught with

pitfalls relating to bias, and confounding, espe-

cially in retrospective studies, which are the

principal studies used on general populations.

“You also have to prove the drug was a

specific cause of the injury to the client, which

involves a meshing of

a complete under-

standing of the phar-

macology of how the

drug acts on the body

and a complete under-

standing of the client’s personal physiology. Both

of these areas have to be developed in the con-

text of potential Daubert and Frye challenges,

not to mention later proof to a jury, once these

challenges are overcome.”

A shareholder in the Philadelphia-based law

firm Anapol Schwartz, Ronca regularly han-

dles pharmaceutical liability and medical device

cases along with other types of personal injury

and wrongful death cases. Ronca, who maintains

a regular practice outside of the Trasylol litiga-

tion, thanks his firm for providing “the depth

and expertise” to enable him to handle both ef-

fectively. He also serves as a speaker at the An-

nual Auto Insurance and Motor Vehicle Practice

Seminar presented by the Pennsylvania Associa-

tion for Justice and the Annual Civil Litigation

Update, presented by the Pennsylvania Bar In-

stitute.

“It is fascinating, but it requires an ‘I am in it

for the long haul’ point of view,” said Ronca of

his field. “There is no easy way out in pharma lit-

igation. It is unlikely that there will be early set-

tlement. The demands are great because, in

addition to general duties that you have to the

whole litigation, you represent a bunch of indi-

vidual clients who need individual client atten-

tion. If you can handle the multi-faceted

demands, it is very rewarding.”

JAMES RONCA ’77 TAKES THE LEAD ON

TRASYLOL SUITS



A L U M N I N E W S

The email forwarded

to Lewis Katz last March

described a dire situation:

a little Haitian boy being

treated at Phoenix Chil-

dren’s Hospital was in crit-

ical condition and in need

of a bone marrow trans-

plant. His doctor, oncolo-

gist Jessica Boklan, was

desperately seeking anyone

who could assist with

bringing the young boy’s

mother and two sisters,

still in Haiti, to the United

States, hoping that one of

his sisters would be a

match for the transplant.

Boklan’s patient, 4-

year-old Mike Cadet, and

his family had survived the

January 2010 earthquake in

Haiti, but days later, Mike,

who sustained an injury to his arm in the quake,

continued to suffer from a fever and pain. His fa-

ther, Gustave, took him to a nearby makeshift

medical clinic, and the pair was immediately air-

lifted to Miami. Doctors treating Mike discovered

that he was suffering from Leukemia, something

his family likely would have never known had he

not sustained an injury during the devastation to

their country.

Fast forward nearly six months to Arizona,

where Mike and his father had been transferred

following a brief stay in Miami. Mike’s condition

was deteriorating, and Boklan sent a mass email

Katz described as a “does anybody know anybody

who knows anybody in Haiti” appeal. When Katz’

business partner’s wife shared the email with her

husband, he immediately thought of Katz.

Katz reached out to his good friend, Pennsyl-

vania Governor Ed Rendell, who had traveled to

Haiti in the weeks following the earthquake to res-

cue orphans being cared for by two western Penn-

sylvania sisters. Rendell contacted Secretary of

Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and Leslie

McCombs, a consultant for government relations

at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

who had assisted Governor Rendell with his res-

cue mission earlier that year. According to Katz,

McCombs had developed a relationship with a

woman in the Prime Minister’s office, and Mc-

LEWIS KATZ ’66 HELPS REUNITE

HAITIAN FAMILYBy Kelly Rimmer

Mrs. Cadet and her daughters stand with Lewis Katz on the runway in Haiti. “I wish everyonewould have the opportunity to feel the way I did when we took off from Haiti and I looked intothe faces of the little girls who have never even been close to an airplane, let alone on the wayto see their brother and father. It was heartwarming,” he said.



Combs was willing to work with her contacts to

facilitate reuniting Mike with his mother,

Michelette, and older sisters, Carla and Djenika.

In spite of Katz’ quick reaction, the coordi-

nation effort was slow. “The family members had

no documentation, no birth certificates, no pass-

ports. Everything is so backlogged in Haiti, and

the urgency of [Mike’s] disease wasn’t really a

factor. We kept calling, and calling, and calling,”

Katz said.

Finally, nearly ninety days after Katz set

things into motion, they got the news they’d

been waiting for. “We received a call telling us

that if we could be there the next day between 10

[a.m.] and 12 [p.m.], we would be able to get the

mother and sisters out of the country,” he said.

Katz, who had volunteered his personal

plane for the mission to Haiti, traveled that day

to his home in Boca Raton, Florida, to avoid any

potential weather delays that he might have en-

countered had he tried to leave from Philadel-

phia the following morning. He made

arrangements for the flight the next day, which

included finding a flight attendant who spoke

French—the family speaks French and Creole—

to accompany them on the trip.

On June 18, Katz and McCombs boarded his

plane for Haiti. “Before I left that morning, I re-

membered I had nothing, no toys, to give to the

girls.” He said that he “raided” his grandchil-

dren’s toys so that he could give the girls some-

thing to play with when he arrived.

Katz said that he’ll never forget the sight of

Mike’s mother and sisters when he landed in

Haiti. “When we arrived, we were met by these

two adorable little girls and their mother, and

the mother carried out of Haiti a little handbag

with all of their belongings,” he described.

When the family, who was sponsored by the

Catholic Conference of Bishops, landed in Ari-

zona, the mother was taken immediately to her

son’s side. “They had the mother all wrapped up

in a gown, mask, and gloves because of the sen-

sitivity of [Mike’s] condition. I’m told that when

they arrived, he was in a very critical state, but as

soon as his mother touched him, he opened his

eyes,” Katz said. “The amazing part of this

story,” Katz said, “is that unbeknownst to me,

this little boy believed his mother was dead be-

cause he hadn’t seen her in six months. Nothing

his father or the nurses said could make him be-

lieve otherwise.”

It was soon discovered that both of Mike’s

sisters were matches for a bone marrow trans-

plant, but as of now, Mike doesn’t need it. Ac-

cording to Katz, Mike’s recovery since his

mother’s arrival has been described by Boklan as

miraculous. “Within a week, he was up and

around and in remission,” said Katz.

Katz views his part in this miracle as a privi-

lege. “Where else in life could I have the good

fortune to have an airplane and be able to use it

in a better way? Where else in life would I be

able to look at myself in the mirror and say that I

did the right thing and I feel good about it. This

was better than all the business deals and ath-

letic club wins, because [I was able to] show hu-

manity,” Katz shared. “I get all the benefits

because I know that somewhere in this country

I’ve given a little boy the chance to have a better

life.”

Mike Cadet (center), 4, sits with his sisters Carla (left), 11, andDjenika, 9, on the cancer floor of Phoenix Children's Hospital.

Photo: Michael Schennum/The Arizona Republic, published 7/22/10. Used with permission. Permission does not imply endorsement.



A L U M N I N E W S

By Robin Fulton

Kathy L. Pape, president of PennsylvaniaAmerican Water, will lend her expertise to effortsto reclaim and reutilize former coal mining lands inLuzerne County, Pennsylvania, in her new capacityas a member of the Board of Directors of EarthConservancy.

“We are pleased to welcome Kathy Pape to ourBoard,” said Michael A. Dziak, president and chiefexecutive officer of Earth Conservancy. “Ms. Papebrings unique and important experience that willassist in guiding the organization’s work in thecoming years.”

Founded in 1992, Earth Conservancy was a re-sponse to lands left by the bankruptcy of Blue CoalCorporation in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.With the support of Congressman Paul E.

Kanjorski ’65,local businesses,education institu-tions, and residentsformed the non-profit organizationto ensure the recov-ery and responsible reutilization of those lands forproductive use by the community.

Pape’s election to Earth Conservancy’s Board ofDirectors reiterates her strong background as aleader in the public utility industry. A nationallyrecognized expert on water and wastewater issues,she has held positions at Aqua America, Inc.,American Water, General Waterworks Manage-ment and Service Co., as well as the PennsylvaniaPublic Utility Commission and the PennsylvaniaOffice of Consumer Advocate.

By Dyanna Stupar

Floyd M. Baturin

missed the first five

weeks of his first semester of law school. He was on

active duty in the United States Marine Corps.

However, when he began his studies the only dif-

ference he noticed between him and his classmates

was that his shoes were always polished. Since his

discharge in October 1953, Baturin has continued

to devote his time, energy, and resources to the

Marine Corps and its veterans. Last fall he was

honored with an Official Citation from the Pennsyl-

vania House of Representatives in recognition of

the many positions he has held in numerous vet-

eran organizations, including the War Veterans

Council of Greater Harrisburg.

Baturin is a partner at the Harrisburg, Pennsyl-

vania, law firm of Baturin & Baturin, founded by

M.S. Baturin in 1917. Many of the firm’s clients are

third and fourth generations of the same family.

Three of Baturin’s children, Monica, Madelaine,

and Harry, all third-generation attorneys, work

with the firm and are each married to local attor-

neys. Baturin has served as the director of the

Dauphin County Bar Association and the Family

Security Life Insurance Company. He has also been

a panelist for various CLE programs and has pub-

lished multiple articles in The Pennsylvania

Lawyer. Baturin resides in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,

with his wife Kersti.

PENNSYLVANIA HOUSE OF

REPRESENTATIVES SALUTES

FLOYD M. BATURIN ’56

KATHY PAPE ’78 HELPS REHABILITATE LAND



FRANK WAGNER

REFLECTS ON HIS

SUPREME COURT CAREER

continued on page 12

By Pam Knowlton

Other than sharing the same alma mater,

Frank D. Wagner ’70 and Professor Emeritus

Christine Kellett ’75 share another common

connection: they owe part of their successful

legal careers to Justice Harry Blackmun.

After spending fourteen years as a legal edi-

tor in the commercial legal publishing world,

Wagner learned of the retirement of Henry Lind,

Reporter of Decisions, and decided to apply for

the position. Justice Blackmun was one of the

justices who interviewed and hired him as the

Reporter of Decisions of the United States

Supreme Court, a position only held by fifteen

people since 1789.

Kellett met Justice Blackmun during her

first year of teaching when he visited the Law

School. Knowing Kellett’s background in consti-

tutional law, Justice Blackmun joked with her

during their introduction saying, “Professor Kel-

lett, you teach Constitutional Law. You are one

of the only lawyers in the country who can criti-

cize the Court with impunity, and I have no

doubt that you do so!” Justice Blackmun then in-

vited her to visit an upcoming oral argument,

kicking off a pattern of visits that would last

twenty-eight years. Professor Kellett also struck

up a professional relationship with Wagner, who

introduced countless Dickinson School of Law

students to the inner sanctum of the awe-inspir-

ing courthouse.

Photos: Steve Petteway, Collection of the Supreme Court of theUnited States



In September after more than twenty-three

years of service, Wagner retired from his post as

Reporter of Decisions of the United States Supreme

Court. During a recent interview, he reflected on

his years at the Court with Professor Kellett, who

taught classes with Chief Justice Rehnquist and

Justices Alito and Scalia in the school’s summer

abroad program and a seminar on the U.S.

Supreme Court for years at the Law School.

Wagner served under only two chief justices,

Rehnquist and Roberts. Ironically, the only change

observed by Wagner when the chiefs changed is

that, as a traditionalist, Chief Justice Roberts has

been slow to make any changes at all unless they

are absolutely warranted. “For example, Chief Jus-

tice Rehnquist would limit each arguing side at

oral arguments to the half an hour that is their

normal allotment. Chief Justice Roberts will ex-

tend that time if he feels at the end of a presenta-

tion that the Court is getting good and valuable

information, but he’s very careful to allow the

same additional time to the other side.”

For each opinion, Wagner and his staff wrote

the syllabus, which includes a summary of the

opinion and a lineup listing how each of the nine

justices voted. The Reporter’s Office would then

send the syllabus back to the justices for approval

of everything, down to the last comma. Occasion-

ally, the Reporter’s Office received letters from the

public pointing out technical errors like typos,

which Wagner’s team was happy to fix. Philosophi-

cal discussions and letters attempting to promote

one’s self-interest are the only correspondence

Wagner discounted. “A couple of times, I would

get a letter from a law professor saying, ‘Surely

this opinion meant to cite my article on such and

such,’ and those were really the only such letters

that I would ignore.”

Although personal discussions with the jus-

tices did occur at times, most of Wagner’s interac-

tions were in writing. “If a justice called me, it

probably wasn’t to congratulate me. If it rose to

the level of a personal call, somebody was probably

pretty upset with me. That didn’t happen very

often, but it did happen occasionally, and, no, I

won’t share any of those interactions with you.”

Wagner cites Bush v. Gore as the most chal-

lenging case of his career because of time con-

straints imposed by federal law to compress the

briefing, argument, and decision schedule. “What

made it so difficult was the fact that we had to do

our work in such a very, very short period of time.

Cert. was granted on a Saturday, the case was ar-

gued the following Monday, and the decision was

issued on Tuesday,” said Wagner. “On the day of

release, there were six opinions, and we reviewed

each of them multiple times. Although generally I

tried to have the same lawyer and the same parale-

gal editor look at every draft and every opinion,

that day we were splitting each opinion three ways

among the office lawyers and five ways among the

office paralegals just to get the thing done before

the next draft arrived.”

When asked what he’ll miss most about the

job, Wagner responded, “The constant interaction

with very, very bright people. I believe the oppor-

tunity constantly to deal with these brilliant minds

has kept me young. Nevertheless, it’s time to move

on.” And move on he has. Among other volunteer

projects, Wagner is keeping his writing and editing

skills honed by advising the Cornell Legal Infor-

mation Institute on its Supreme Court collection

and serving on the Scribes Board of Directors.

Frank Wagner with Chief Justice John Roberts at Wagner’s retirement party on September 29, 2010.



HIGH-VOLTAGE

ALUMNILand Banker

Richard Erdmann ’73

Energy Financier

Gregory Blasi ’75

Energy Lawyers

Michael Bramnick ’90 and Aaron Kahn ’07

Environmental Lawyer

Justina Wasicek ’75

And the buzz over brownfields and Marcellus Shale



MEET THELAND BANKER

By Crystal Stryker

For Richard Erdmann ’73 it’s all about keeping

Humpty Dumpty together. Without his work the state

park near you might be a big-box store or a gated

array of lakefront estates.

Erdmann is executive vice president and general

counsel of the Conservation Fund, an organization

that began twenty-six years ago with a few friends and

one $50,000 genius grant from the John D. and

Katherine T. MacArthur Foundation. At the helm of

legal operations—and in a helm-like corner office in

Arlington, Virginia, Erdmann insisted that he does

not take himself very seriously.

“This is where I think deep thoughts maybe once

a year,” he quipped to visitors, stepping out to his bal-

cony to a view of the Potomac River and the Capitol

Building. “I do take my work seriously though,” he

said after returning indoors. He has handled more

than 2,500 land deals worth more than $4.75 billion.

“The legal structures, the guidelines, the operat-

ing practices, and the core values of the enterprise

have all been developed with Rich and reflected by his

performance and leadership,” explained co-founder

and chairman emeritus Patrick Noonan, who credits

Erdmann with a strong sense of integrity that has

been instilled in everything from accountability stan-

dards to the organization’s reputation. Noonan re-

ceived the Genius Grant and is regarded as one of the

nation’s leading conservationists. He credits Erd-

mann’s skills with enabling the Conservation Fund to

grow from an idea into a national institution.

Preserving green space is the focus of Erdmann’s

career. He was inspired to care about this issue as a



child in central New Jersey in the 1950s and 60s,

where pristine woodlands became subdivisions

and strip malls.

“Once you break Humpty Dumpty, it’s al-

most impossible to put him back together

again,” he said. When a large parcel is jettisoned

onto the real estate market, the property quickly

becomes subject to “higher and better” use po-

tential—like subdivisions, lakefront homes, and

strip malls in a process that disrupts natural

habitats, foils migration patterns, and disrupts

natural storm water management.

The Business of Land Banking

“We do acquisition work and pre-acquisition

work for federal and state resource agencies.

You can call it land banking,” said Erdmann.

Working in collaboration with local communi-

ties, the Conservation Fund purchases a parcel

of land and holds it until a federal or state has

appropriated funds to make a purchase. By the

end of the transaction, the Conservation Fund

has earned a return on its investment that is

redirected into its general fund and used for an-

other purchase.

Ranked as an A+ charity by the American

Institute of Philanthropy, the Conservation

Fund employs 138 people and has conserved

nearly 7 million acres. Both Erdmann and Noo-

nan are proud that the charity runs with single-

digit administrative costs and that every

conservation deal the organization undertakes

creates a return for the organization.

When Erdmann and Noonan founded the

organization, they were among the first to con-

ceive of ecology and business as collaborative

partners, not adversaries. They continue to work

as dealmakers.

For example, in 1998 the Conservation Fund

acquired 294,000 acres in the Northern Forest,

the largest continuous forest east of the Missis-

sippi, from Champion International (now Inter-

national Paper). This complex multi-partner sale

of forestland in New York, Vermont, and New

Hampshire broke new ground and became a

model for large-scale conservation purchases in

America. About one-third of the lands are owned

in fee by a state agency in New York and the U.S.

Fish and Wildlife Service in Vermont in what is

now known as the Silvio O. Conte National Fish

and Wildlife Refuge. The remaining two-thirds

were sold to timber investment management or-

ganizations (TIMOS) subject to conservation

easements that protect against fragmentation of

the land.

“We were protecting in fee the core and we

were protecting by easement the outlying prop-

erty. And we maintained a working forest and

continued to benefit the local economy and pro-

vide the recreational benefit to locals that had

been part of their lives for generations,” he said.

Of all the projects Erdmann has worked on, it is

this deal that brings him particular pride. It was

the largest multistate conservation acquisition

ever done in the United States.

Erdmann was careful to explain that the

Conservation Fund partners with TIMOS and

does not view them as adversaries. In his line of

work quiet phone calls from Fortune 500 busi-

nesses are not unusual; businesses know to turn

to the Conservation Fund when they want to di-

vest themselves of parcels of land that no longer

fit their business interests. Erdmann is confident

that businesses are getting on board with sus-

tainable operations and reducing carbon emissions.




“When we applied for exempt status with a dual

charter in 1985, sustainability wasn’t even in the

vernacular,” he said, noting that for the most part

businesses understand that carbon emissions are a

problem. “They just want one solution, not fifty,” he

said, referring to his wish for a federal cap-and-

trade system.

The Scenic Route to Conservation

During law school, Erdmann imagined that he

would practice in the traditional sense. Yet while

Erdmann was studying for the bar exam, Noonan, a

longtime friend from their days at Gettysburg Col-

lege, had become president of the Nature Conser-

vancy at age 30. Noonan asked him to join the

Nature Conservancy in Washington, D.C., not as an

attorney but as a legal intern. Erdmann accepted

the offer and, four months later, was regional coun-

sel for the Nature Conservancy in Boston, where he

stayed for three and a half years.

He left the Nature Conservancy to run the

Chester Group, a coalition founded by major corpo-

rations and institutions to address urban revitaliza-

tion in Chester, Pennsylvania. Later, Erdmann

acquired and worked with a technology company

that manufactured static neutralizing equipment

for clean rooms, and the firm was sold after a

friendly tender offer in 1982. At that time, Noonan

had since left the Nature Conservancy and founded

the American Farmland Trust, working with them

and a variety of land conservation entities. He in-

vited Erdmann to join him in D.C., and from 1983

to 85 the two worked together as consultants before

launching the Conservation Fund in 1985.

“Pat has one of the most creative minds in con-

servation,” said Erdmann, who credited Noonan

with the idea of creating a new model based on the

mutual goals of conservation and economic devel-

opment.

Erdmann has supervised deals in all fifty states

and with a variety of businesses, agencies, and enti-

ties. As a land banker he finds “extraordinary” per-

mutations on his central theme of buying,

managing, and selling land all around the United

States. The challenge keeps him inspired.

“Where I grew up rivers ran

orange,” said Justina Wasicek

’75, who remembers local

streams near Pittsburgh, Penn-

sylvania, contaminated with iron

oxide and raw sewage. “Maybe

that’s why I care so much about

water quality.”

She enjoyed a twenty-seven

year career litigating environmen-

tal matters on behalf of what is

now the Department of Environmental Protection.

“Water unites everything I’ve done in my career whether

it was mining safety or superfund litigation.”

Wasicek litigated DEP v. Westinghouse Electric

Corporation on a team that obtained what was then

the largest civil penalty ever assessed by the Environ-

mental Hearing

Board, $3.29

million dollars.

Westinghouse

operated an ele-

vator manufac-

turing plant on

the 85-acre site

in Adams County,

Pennsylvania.

There, it improp-

erly charged in-

dustrial wastes

containing trichloroethylene and trichloroethane and

damaged more than 60 wells. Litigation began in 1988

and concluded in 2000. Remedies have been installed,

but groundwater monitoring on the site continues.

Now retired, Wasicek uses her legal skills to

serve as the Energy Issues co-chair of the Pennsylva-

nia chapter of the Sierra Club and as secretary of the

Clean Air Board of Central Pennsylvania, an organi-

zation dedicated to monitoring and improving air

quality in the community.

She tries to encourage neighborly behavior, en-

couraging people to treat the water that other people

will drink the same way they would want their own well

treated.

JUSTINA WASICEK’SCAREER: A RIVERRUNS THROUGH IT

“Being an environmentalist

means caring about your

neighbors. We all live down-

stream from other people’s

discharges. We only have so

much clean water and we

have to share it.”



By Robin Fulton

Corporate and finance at-

torney Gregory Blasi ’75

handles matters involving re-

newable energy finance such

as wind, solar, and geother-

mal, from the Manhattan of-

fice of Loeb & Loeb LLP. He

sees a bright future for renew-

able energy in the United

States despite the industry’s

current challenges.

“There are vast supplies of

natural gas in the U. S. that we

finally have the cost-efficient

technology to obtain. This is

good for the country for a

number of reasons including the fact that it

burns much cleaner than coal,” said Blasi. How-

ever, he explained that natural gas is compara-

tively inexpensive and without the correct

governmental incentives, it is difficult for renew-

able energy sources to be competitive.

A so-called “dash to gas,” according to Blasi,

can threaten the energy security of the country.

“You need a healthy diversity of fuel sources for

generation so the country does not become over-

dependent on one fuel source,” he said. Blasi has

spent his thirty-year career focusing on all gen-

eration sources while becoming an expert in

mergers and acquisitions in the energy area.

Another challenge, he offered, is the shifting

regulatory and tax regimes that have helped spur

the growth of renewable energy. “The cash grant

program created by the American Recovery and

Reinvestment Act is scheduled to expire at the

end of this year. This is a hugely successful pro-

gram that allows renewable energy developers, if

they meet certain rules, to obtain

30 percent of their eligible costs

for their project directly from

the U.S. Treasury,” said Blasi.

Blasi elaborated that the

uncertainty of the continuation

of tax credits contained in the

Internal Revenue Code to spur

renewable development is also

a hindrance. “The tax credits

will be expiring over the next

several years and if they are

not renewed, there could be an

adverse affect on renewable

development.” He remembers

the last time Congress allowed

the production tax credit to ex-

pire, installation of wind gen-

eration plunged from the previous year.

A national renewable energy portfolio stan-

dard would also drive the industry forward.

Compounding the situation, as a result of

the recent economic crisis, financial institutions

that provided an important source of capital

through “tax equity financing” were no longer

able to do so. The number of financial institu-

tions in the tax equity market dropped dramati-

cally, and Blasi indicated that only some of these

institutions are starting to return to the market.

Nevertheless, Blasi remains optimistic about

the future of renewable energy while recognizing

that it will take time to achieve the country’s goal

of energy diversity.

Blasi and his family live in Pelham Manor,

New York. His daughter Susan is a graduate of

Dickinson College, while his daughter Laura is a

student at Franklin & Marshall College. The

family enjoys skiing in Stratton, Vermont, and

vacationing on Long Beach Island, New Jersey.

GREGORY BLASI ON THE CURRENT STATE OF

RENEWABLE ENERGY FINANCE

Gregory Blasi serves as a moderator during theannual Platts Global Power Market Conferencesponsored by Loeb & Loeb and writes aboutmergers and acquisitions and renewable energy.



By Robin Fulton

Michael Bramnick ’90 always knew he was

headed for a career in environmental law. After

completing his undergraduate degree at George

Washington University in Washington, D.C.,

Bramnick matriculated at The Dickinson School of

Law to obtain the well-rounded education a num-

ber of family friends assured him he would re-

ceive. What Bramnick could not have known at the

time was that he was embarking on a career path

that would propel him to the top of the legal de-

partment of a $9B company, NRG Energy, Inc.

It was this path that took Bramnick from the

Harrisburg office of Pepper Hamilton, LLP, where

he worked as an environmental, health, and safety

lawyer, to Envirosource, a specialty steel services

company based in suburban Philadelphia.

There, he served as corporate counsel, his work di-

vided evenly across contract drafting and negotia-

tion, environmental work, and litigation. Later,

following a brief time at Lucent Technologies in

Northern New Jersey, Bramnick joined Millen-

nium Chemicals, a publicly traded chemical com-

pany, as associate general counsel, managing

litigation, including the company’s historic na-

tional pigment litigation across multiple states and

jurisdictions.

After Millennium merged with Lyondell

Chemical Company and moved its operations to

Houston, Bramnick landed a position as assistant

general counsel for litigation at NRG in December

2004. Now executive vice president and general

counsel of NRG, he credits his adaptability to the

education he received at the Law School. “I’m

proud of the way I’ve been able to adapt to differ-

ent fields of legal practice along a twenty-year ca-

reer in private practice and at four companies; and

it’s fair to say

that a big rea-

son for that is

what I learned

at Dickinson

and how the

professors

taught us—

hands on, real

world, and

practical.” And

while his pro-

fessors may

have impacted

Bramnick’s legal

skill set, Bramnick himself made a considerable

impact on the Law School as a founding member of

the Environmental Law Society.

NRG, a publicly traded independent energy

company that owns and operates nuclear, solar,

wind, coal, natural gas, and oil-fueled power

plants, is a Fortune 500 and S&P 500 Index com-

pany and generates enough power to supply nearly

20 million homes with electricity. Its retail energy

businesses include Reliant Energy and Green

Mountain Energy Company. Together, they serve

more than 1.8 million residential, business, com-

mercial, and industrial customers. Green Moun-

tain, the largest green energy retailer in the

country, now supplies the Empire State Building

with clean energy, which it lit up in green earlier

this year in celebration after winning the contract.

Bramnick works out of NRG’s Princeton, New

Jersey headquarters. Not all of NRG’s lawyers are

housed in corporate headquarters, with most of

them working within the company’s regions and

businesses, and participating in weekly conference

calls. About his colleagues in the Legal Depart-

Michael Bramnick helps

POWER THE FUTURE



ment, Bramnick quickly relates that he would

“put them up against the best law firms out there

in terms of their knowledge, creativity, execu-

tion, ethics, teamwork, and accomplishments.

They are flat out the best.” The same could be

said about Bramnick, who from 2008-2009

played an active role within

the larger senior manage-

ment team that fought off a

hostile takeover attempt by a

company seven times the

size of NRG.

So just where does NRG

fit into the landscape of renewable energy? “The

company’s philosophy is that it should push re-

newables where they fit the best,” reported

Bramnick. “We’re focusing very hard on solar in

the West and Southwest; we own four wind

farms in West Texas and are pushing hard in the

Northeast for offshore wind; and we’re trying to

execute on a nuclear expansion down in the

south.” NRG recently announced two solar

deals: upon their close, the company will own

what will be the largest solar photovoltaic plant

in the world when completed, and it will own up

to half of what will be the largest concentrated

solar thermal power plant in the world. But

Bramnick readily admits that even these plants,

which will generate 290MW and 392MW re-

spectively when built, do not compare to the

2,700MW nuclear power plant they hope to

soon build. “If you want to move the needle on

carbon, and NRG was a supporter of cap and

trade legislation, then the best way to do that is

nuclear,” he said.

The company is waiting on U.S. Department

of Energy loan guarantees to move forward with

plans to expand an existing nuclear power plant

in Matagorda County, Texas. NRG already owns

approximately 44 percent

of that plant, designed to

accommodate up to four

nuclear reactors. It has won

safety awards for six con-

secutive years and has the

support of the community

in which it is located, making it a great match for

NRG.

Another piece of that puzzle, the electric car

industry, has NRG vying to build “the largest

privately financed electric vehicle charging sys-

tem in the country through our eVgo sub-

sidiary,” reported Bramnick. Still, in a low

natural gas price environment, pursuing alterna-

tive sources of energy is not easy. “We’re trying

to aggressively move into areas—solar and retail

energy, the electric car—that are not tied to the

price of natural gas so that we’re increasingly

viewed as a different energy company, one that

is focused on twenty-first century energy solutions.”

Bramnick resides in Princeton Junction,

New Jersey, with his wife, Susan, and their

children, Sophie and Eli.

The author wishes to thank Jan Sockel PSU ’69, general managerof NRG Energy Center Harrisburg LLC, for his contributions to thisarticle.

NRG Energy’s onestory building in New Jersey is an open concept floor plan with no individual offices. “The CEO didn’t like the idea ofpeople in silos, and this floor plan forces people to talk to each other. You never want a situation in which someone would say, ‘youknow I don’t want to go up to Legal. They’re on the eleventh floor,’” Bramnick said.

“The company’s philoso-

phy is that it should push

renewables where they

fit the best.”


WASHINGTON, D.C. PROGRAM LEADS

AARON KAHN TO A BALANCED LIFEBy Dyanna Stupar

Aaron Kahn ’07 lives what he describes as a

balanced life. Kahn travels around the world, vol-

unteers for his local fire station, and rescues

abused and neglected beagles. He is also a trial at-

torney with the Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission in Washington, D.C. “While work-

ing for the government I get paid less than lawyers

who work for private firms, but I’m able to have a

life,” he said.

Kahn’s optimistic view on life and his determi-

nation to give back to his community can be credited

to his travels and his grandfather. “Travel has really

helped me put my life in perspective,” said Kahn.

“I’ve been to many third world countries; when

you take the time to see how other people live, you

realize that your problems are not so bad. My

grandfather also taught me there are very few things

in life that are worth getting angry or uptight over.”

FERC is an independent agency that regulates

the interstate transmission of electricity, natural

gas, and oil. As a trial attorney within the Office of

Administrative Litigation, Kahn negotiates and

mediates settlements, provides support to senior

attorneys throughout the administrative legal

process, performs research, edits and writes legal

documents. “I also make copies,” said Kahn with a

grin. Kahn worked as an intern for FERC during

the summer after his first year of law school and

then as a part of the Law School’s Semester in

Washington, D.C. Program.

Kahn has successfully settled his first case as

lead counsel, proposed novel solutions in settle-

ment discussions, led counsel in a Nuclear Decom-

missioning Fund True-Up Case, and successfully

countered Motions to Strike or Reopen Record in a

case with $141 million at stake.

“I work with some of the brightest people in

the energy industry, people who can distill the

most complicated technical concepts down to lan-

guage even a trial attorney can understand,” said

Kahn. He is including his wife, Kelly, who is a biol-

ogist with FERC.

“Although I enjoy litigation, I have found I

particularly enjoy working for settlements,” said

Kahn. “It can be just as difficult to mediate and ne-

gotiate an end to a dispute and it is a lot of fun de-

veloping relationships and trust with other parties

and working together to find an acceptable solu-

tion to all parties. It’s really neat to be a part of

identifying and solving problems every day”.

Kelly Kahn says that her husband “has the cu-

riosity of a child, is never bored, and has for too

much energy.” Perhaps his curiosity is what led

him to take his wife on international excursions to

Laos, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, Japan, Chile,

Argentina, and many other places. “You can find

us traveling with our three rescued beagles any-

where and everywhere,” he said.




By Curtis Toll ’94

Just fifteen years ago

development of envi-

ronmentally contam-

inated real estate

parcels, called

brownfields, was a

specialty craft. Only a

handful of the most

daring developers

would tackle these

projects, generally deemed too risky and difficult

for conventional large-scale development firms.

The legal landscape has changed dramatically,

and today brownfield development is wide-

spread and far-reaching across all sectors of the

real estate industry. Developers who have been

crippled by the financial crisis of 2008 have now

begun to use stimulus funds, tax credits, and re-

newable energy credits to develop “brightfield”

solar energy or wind projects on underutilized

and environmentally contaminated urban infill

sites.

In the late 1990s, the “brownfield develop-

ment” industry was a small and specialized niche

of the real estate development community. A

handful of development firms focused primarily

on purchasing contaminated projects, assuming

the remediation obligations and attendant envi-

ronmental liabilities associated with them, and

selling the clean land to conventional vertical de-

velopers. These firms were the first to develop

and utilize the environmental insurance prod-

ucts that are commonly used today to mitigate

the risks associated with the development of a

contaminated site. The environmental insurance

industry grew along with the brownfield model,

and several of the early insurers were ultimately

driven from the market after incurring signifi-

cant and repeated losses. Since these projects

were deemed too risky for conventional real es-

tate lenders and developers, the brownfield de-

veloper was typically able to command a

significant premium for the delivery of clean

land. Internal rates of return on these successful

early projects were often in excess of 40 percent.

As the real estate boom of the early millen-

nium took shape and environmental insurance

came into its own, conventional developers and

lenders became more willing to develop contami-

nated sites for their own account. Since these sites

could usually be acquired at steep discounts from

market value, real estate investment trusts and

private equity firms were lured into the business

by the unusually high returns. To further support

this transition, during these years many of the

large environmental engineering firms devel-

oped guaranteed fixed price remediation pro-

grams that were supported by their own

proprietary environmental insurance programs,

which promised project completion at a guaran-

teed price and within negotiated timeframes. Con-

ventional lenders were also convinced that the

environmental risks could be appropriately miti-

gated as environmental insurers developed

“secured creditor” policies designed to protect

lenders from environmental liabilities.

While the world almost ended for conventional

real estate developers in September 2008, the

TRASH TO TREASURE —The Evolution of Brownfield Development and Renewable Energy Opportunities on Contaminated Property




brownfield development

industry was especially

shaken by the near col-

lapse of American Inter-

national Group. AIG

controlled almost 70 per-

cent of the environmental

insurance market, and

their troubles caused a

fundamental restructuring of the insurance mar-

ketplace supporting brownfield developments.

First party “cost cap” or “stop loss” coverage,

which allows an insured to fix its costs for remedi-

ation work at a predetermined “attachment point,”

became extremely difficult and expensive to ob-

tain. Lack of access to capital and conventional

debt, combined with the inability to insure first

party remediation risks through cost cap insurance,

made it very difficult to initiate new conventional

brownfield projects.

At the same time, in February 2009, Congress

passed the American Reinvestment and Recovery

Act (ARRA), which provided a cash grant in lieu of

tax credits for qualifying renewable energy proj-

ects. Likewise, several states developed active Re-

newable Energy Credit (REC) markets where

public utilities can purchase credits generated by a

privately owned renewable energy project to sat-

isfy their federal renewable energy requirements.

The ARRA grant revenues and proceeds from REC

sales acted as direct project subsidies and led to a

significant increase in the demand for and interest

in these renewable energy projects.

In the absence of conventional development

drivers, brownfield sites, which are by their terms

typically underutilized urban infill locations in

close proximity to the power grid, have now be-

come attractive locations for solar and wind proj-

ects. Since solar arrays and wind farms can usually

be placed over landfills and other environmental

caps without new environmental permits and

without violating existing land use controls, the

revenue generated from these projects falls right

to the bottom line and enhances near-term returns

for mixed-use developments. Often, the renewable

energy project (which is relatively simple to con-

struct) is brought on line first, well before retail or

other commercial components and acts as a cata-

lyst for the other project uses. The availability of

the federal ARRA grant allows developers to re-

ceive cash returns quickly without relying on the

vagaries of the tax credit marketplace and the sale

of the renewable energy tax credits. In the wake of

the 2008 financial crisis and the bankruptcy of

General Motors and other large industrial compa-

nies there are literally hundreds of abandoned in-

dustrialized facilities that have little or no

conventional real estate value, but which are

prime locations for “brightfield” renewable energy

projects of this nature. At the end of 2010, Con-

gress extended the ARRA grant for renewable en-

ergy projects along with the other Bush tax cuts, so

it appears that brownfields will continue to be

transformed into “brightfields” at the same fever-

ish pace for the next several years.

The author is a shareholder at Greenberg Traurig and focuses hispractice on brownfield redevelopment.

A former brownfield site, Stapleton in Denver, Colorado, is now a green community designed for walking, biking, and ecofriendly living.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that brownfield grant projects leverage $17.39 per EPA dollar expended.



By Dyanna Stupar

How does one secure a job with Reed Smith

before graduating from law school? Ask Robert

Jochen ’11. With an interest in oil and gas law,

Jochen was advised by another attorney that now

would be the time to jump into the field. Since

then, Jochen made the most of his time by pub-

lishing articles for the “Agricultural Law Brief,”

initiating projects, attending conferences, and

seeking out helpful mentors, which opened the

door to an opportunity as a legal intern for Chesapeake

Energy Corporation in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

“While working for Chesapeake I had a

number of opportunities to apply all that I had

learned throughout law school to real-life issues,

not hypotheticals,” said Jochen. “From the very

first day I started, they handed me my own proj-

ects. With those projects I would come up with a

plan of attack, present it to my supervisor, and

follow the agreed-upon course of action. A lot of

the time I wasn’t asked ‘what is the law?’ on an

issue. Instead, the focus was, knowing what I

learned about the issue, ‘should we do this or

shouldn’t we?’ The internship was all about un-

derstanding the background against which deci-

sions are made, not just telling a supervisor what

a statute or a case says. It gave me a taste of what I

am going to be doing for the next chapter of my

life.”

Jochen credits his inspiration and success to

Professor Ross Pifer ’95 and the Law School’s

Agricultural Law Resource and Reference Cen-

ter, where he worked as a research assistant. “It

may be a little more difficult and time-consum-

ing, but students should do their best to seek out

a professor or attorney-mentor and try to get in-

volved with a specific area of law that they find

interesting,” said Jochen. “I can’t explain how

helpful Professor Pifer has been in my job

search, whether it be through publishing articles

I wrote for the Center, involving me in attorney

meetings, or encouraging me to get involved,

and to get my name out there.”

As Jochen became more involved at the Cen-

ter, he was able to see different facets of oil and

gas law and grew to love it even more. “Every

issue that I have had the chance to look into has

been interesting in one way or another,” said

Jochen. “I think the best thing about oil and gas

law today is that it is relatively undeveloped. I

enjoy working in a field in which you have some

indication as to where a court may go in a deci-

sion or some of the major concerns that a court

may have regarding an issue, but not being

bound by case precedent.”

After graduation, Jochen will move to Pitts-

burgh, Pennsylvania, to work as a commercial

litigator for Reed Smith, a firm that contains at-

torneys with over twenty years of experience

within or related to oil and gas law. He is mar-

ried to Monica Jochen, who is currently pursu-

ing a Ph.D. in educational psychology at Penn

State University.

AG LAW CENTER SERVES AS “PIPELINE” FOR ROBERT JOCHEN’S OIL AND GAS CAREER



By Lisa M. Bruderly ’01

As an environmental attorney, I regularly

encounter new issues regarding Marcellus

Shale development, making the advising of

producers and pipeline companies both chal-

lenging and fulfilling.

Many of my challenges occur because

Pennsylvania has three oil and gas statutes, all

of which were written decades ago and do not

contemplate the horizontal drilling and large-

volume hydraulic fracturing techniques that

make Marcellus Shale development economi-

cally possible. When the oil and gas statutes

were drafted, drilling a well was a top-to-bot-

tom proposition. Now, it’s possible for a

skilled developer to drill more than a mile hor-

izontally.

When Marcellus development began in

Pennsylvania, many outstanding industry is-

sues involved obtaining mineral rights and

drilling permits with water withdrawal and

disposal, erosion control, and leasing in the

forefront. Now that drilling is a more common

occurence, developers will increasingly con-

tend with the legal issues that arise from pro-

ducing the gas and getting it to market.

Many emerging environmental issues per-

tain to the construction and management of

pipelines, compressor stations, and other an-

cillary facilities. Producers and midstream

companies have planned large pipeline proj-

ects, which will require extensive permitting.

Producers are also addressing issues pertain-

ing to the classification and management of

wastes taken from well pads or stored in tank

batteries. The testing and disposition of pro-

duced water at private and public treatment

plants is already being examined. Statutory

and regulatory updates to the existing oil and

gas laws to reflect unconventional drilling

techniques and pooling are also likely.

Beyond PADEP, federal and state govern-

mental entities are reexamining their enabling

statutes and associated regulations to deter-

mine whether their provisions apply to natural

gas activities. For example, the Pennsylvania

Department of Agriculture is examining

whether hydraulic fracturing chemicals are

pesticides, which may require licensing. The

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

has identified environmental compliance by

the energy extraction sector, including natural

gas extraction, as a National Enforcement Ini-

tiative. My firm has already seen increases in

EPA information requests and enforcement

actions, and more are expected regarding air

permitting, use of hydraulic fracturing fluids,

management of produced water and worker

safety.

Other likely noteworthy topics for 2011 in-

clude continued purchases of smaller produc-

ers by major oil and gas companies, more joint

ventures and pooling to preserve production

rights, increased attempts by municipalities to

regulate gas development, and expanded ex-

ploration of the Utica shale, another large

shale gas formation located below the Marcel-

lus.

What’s Aroundthe Corner in

MARCELLUSSHALEDEVELOPMENT

Lisa Bruderly is ashareholder at theBabst Calland lawfirm in Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania,where she is amember of themultidisciplinaryNatural ResourcesGroup and specializes in natural gasand water law.

Tower for drilling horizontally into the Marcellus Shale Formation for natural gas, from Pennsylvania Route 118 ineastern Moreland Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania.



WHY I TEACH

By Pam Knowlton and Ellen Foreman

Professors John Lopatka and Nancy

Welsh have been selected for the

2010 Teaching Excellence Award.

“Professors Lopatka and Welsh are

both outstanding scholars who in

corporate their scholarship in their

classroom teaching, challenge their

students creatively, energetically

and respectfully, and inspire stu

dents to strive for academic and

professional excellence. The Law

School appreciates their dedication

to teaching and to mentoring,”

said Law School Dean Philip J.

McConnaughay. They sat down

with us to talk about the work of

training lawyers.

John Lopatka

What do you need to enjoy teaching?

First, I need to enjoy what I’m doing. It has to be fun. Second, I

want my students to ‘get’ what I’m trying to teach. It’s the light

bulb experience—for students to have an idea that they didn’t

have before they walked in. It’s palpable when that happens. You

can see it and that in turn makes it fun.

How do you integrate scholarship into your teaching?

It is impossible to teach something without being affected by

scholarship you’ve done when you get to that issue, and vice

versa. When you’re teaching something you find areas that you’d

like to pursue further, deeper. The difficult thing is to have the self-

discipline not to spend three classes probing an area that is fas-

cinating to you but deserves ten minutes of class time in the

context of the whole course.continued on page 26

Q&A with John Lopatka and Nancy Welsh


Who are your mentors?

Phil Neal, former dean of the University of

Chicago Law School, was one. His demeanor was

very professional and encouraging without being

intimidating—not too hard and not too soft. An-

other is Jim Boyd White at Chicago. He was the

most stimulating teacher I had. It was obvious that

he loved ideas and it was exhilarating to be in his

class. Richard Posner, Bernie Meltzer, Ed Kitch—

all were terrific, and I learned something about

teaching from each. From my perspective now as a

teacher I can better appreciate some of the things

certain professors did that seemed just ‘normal’ as

a student. For example, I had Walter Blum for tax

and he had 100 students or so and called on a

quarter of the class, every class. Now I wonder,

‘how did he do that?’

Why is there a toaster in your office?

It was a gift from students. They wrote a quote

from King Lear on it. Those pieces of positive feed-

back that you get make teaching great.

Nancy Welsh

What do you challenge your students to do?

I think that if you want to be a lawyer, you have to

be ready to be a leader. I want students to realize

that in speaking up they may be competing with

each other, but they are also supporting each other

in achieving as much as they possibly can. Some-

times that looks like competition, but ultimately

it’s working together for a common goal. That ten-

sion between competing with each other and being

colleagues is something that not only occurs in the

classroom but in practice, too. As faculty mem-

bers, I hope that we can help students—future

lawyers and leaders—understand how to interact

in this way, asserting and listening.

What are the best moments in your day?

Civil procedure can be as dry as dust. I love it

when all of a sudden the students start realizing

that if you really know what the procedural rules

are and how they work together, you can also

begin to use them in a way that’s consistent with

our ethical obligations, the goals of our justice sys-

tem, and our clients’ needs. There’s tremendous

power in that, as well as tremendous responsibility.

What advice do you give to new law teach-

ers starting their careers?

First, I think it’s ideal to be teaching something

that you’re really interested in, because the class

will be better if you are excited about what you’re

doing. It’s very tempting to find someone else’s

style that you admire and try to copy them, but

each of us is different and you have to find the par-

ticular issues and approaches in the subject that

excite you. Second, it’s really important to be curi-

ous, because the students bring their own valuable

life experiences to our classes. To the extent that we

are able to treat the classroom experience as a con-

versation—a mutual exploration and discovery—

I think that makes learning the law much more

meaningful, the students learn it better, and as a

faculty member you also continue to learn.




By Jamison E. Colburn

Editor’s note: Agencies are often chargedwith balancing competing national, re-gional, and local interests when makinglaw. But how, exactly, do agencies makelaw? Environmental law scholar Profes-sor Jamison Colburn recently authoredthis article about the current state ofagency lawmaking and the predicamentit has created for those trying to discernlegal rules from everything else.

What does it mean to call an ad-

ministrative agency a “source” of

law? Agencies constantly create what

we regard as law, making and remak-

ing legal rights and duties at a fre-

netic pace. But what has law become

when the society’s legal rules are so

prodigious and yet so changeable

that they themselves inject govern-

ment’s unpredictability into that so-

ciety’s legal order? For, as many have

long insisted, legislation today is

overwhelmingly intransitive: it is a

delegation of authority that, in its

ambiguity as to what rules ought to

govern, leaves the law’s content un-

specified. What is more arresting,

though, is that agency rulemaking is

becoming intransitive in this sense,

too. The bulk of what fills the Federal

Register and Code of Federal Regula-

tions (CFR) is but a further con-

veyance of the authority delegated by

legislation. And as the Supreme

Court recognized not long ago, if it is

a subordinate source of some kind

Featured

Faculty

Scholarship

AGENCY

INTERPRETATIONS

Jamison Colburn is a scholar of environ

mental law and policy who teaches Envi

ronmental Law, Natural Resources Law,

Property, and Administrative Law. Prior to

joining the faculty, he was an enforcement

litigator for the U.S. Department of Envi

ronmental Protection. The original article

can be read at 82 TEMPLE L. REV. 657 (2010).




W

that actually specifies legislation’s meaning, nei-

ther is “complete without the other, and only to-

gether do they have any force.” Still, if the

“preambles” of today’s rules and regulations, the

manuals and memos that explicate them, and the

constant flow of guidance, circulars, bulletins, and

the like defining their terms are, more often than

not, what specify the actual rules of conduct, what

has become of law? … The law, in short, has be-

come a strategic “phe-

nomenon” in which

every promulgated text

is presumptively in-

transitive, provisional,

and subject to amend-

ment by elaboration.

Yet this evolution,

to which most have simply resigned themselves, is

coming to a crossroads. Specifying authoritative

general norms at large scales is demanding even

under the best of circumstances and delaying that

specification is a common response. So-called “leg-

islative” rulemaking, like legislation before it, now

presupposes subordinate rules and rulemaking

which will do so at some point in the future. To-

gether they are all what I shall call a cascade of

delegations to interpret law so many of which go

beyond what lay in codes like the CFR or U.S.C.

that the nature of these codes themselves is chang-

ing. Agency rulemakings of this sort have prolifer-

ated in good part because they entail so little of the

grief lawmaking once did. And because of how in-

tegral it is to private ordering, this “soft” new law

is becoming legality itself. What used to be lex

scripta—the singularly authoritative, binding in-

scriptional text—has become presumably defeasi-

ble in its meaning and perhaps in its force as well.

“Soft” law—law that is cryptic as to whether and to

what extend it binds—is now so abundant, so

portable, and so recognizable that it is more than

ubiquitous: it is depriving our legal codes of their

conventional weights.

If by “rules” we mean effective constraints on

legal actors’ choices, then the making of agency

rules has become a practice of generative delega-

tion whereby each successive act is less its own

constraint than the elaboration and specification

of its preceding constraints. At any particular junc-

ture the cascade’s tempo may be uncertain, but its

continuation is as certain as gravity. And with the

networking of our culture’s public and private ac-

tors becoming denser, informal agency lawmaking

has never been easier. The softer parts of the cas-

cade have even taken

over the spotlight of

social and political de-

bate about the virtues

of deregulation. That

their validity is deeply

contested seems not to

be affecting their pro-

duction, though.

Because agencies can choose how to sequence

and time their actions, and because they may

choose for the sake of their own power, our re-

signed acceptance of these rulemaking cascades is

putting us in quite a predicament. We have long

sought by means of judicial review to check the

discretion delegation creates. We have long ex-

tended that endeavor down the cascade—typically

through the judicial expansion of routinzed proce-

dures like notice and comment. But we have failed

to settle which agency rules are legal rules, render-

ing these pursuits rather random, if not unsound.

We are unsure where agency rules fit into our con-

ventional picture of legality, leaving us all to intuit

how they balance legal formality with substantive

justice. Perhaps most importantly, though, few

question that judicial review can sort all of this out

one rule at a time, and it is this de facto consensus

that is, in my view, the most urgent problem.

Given the ubiquity and complexity of delegations

and agency rules, a requirement that agencies have

either a delegation or an existing agency “rule” to

support their superior claim of authority is hardly

much of a constraint on agency choice.

[o]ur resigned acceptance of

these rulemaking cascades

is putting us in quite

a predicament.



In October, Professor William Barker joined

an interdisciplinary team of experts in Vienna,

Austria, to recommend future funding the

largest research project ever in international tax

law. The research is being conducted by a team

of over sixty European researchers hosted by the

Institute for Austrian and International Tax

Law, School of Law, Vienna University of Eco-

nomics and Business Administration.

Professor William Butler’s translation of the

Russian Federations Criminal Code and Crimi-

nal Procedure was published in January 2011.

He completed work on The Russian Legal Prac-

titioner for publication this year. In December

2010, he delivered a paper at the annual meeting

of the Russian Association of Maritime Law on

piracy at sea and a paper on the teaching of com-

parative law at a round table in Kiev organized

by the Ukrainian Association of Comparative

Law. On January 1, 2011, Professor Butler joined

the editorial board of Pravo Ukrainy, the lead-

ing Ukrainian law review.

Professor Karen Bysiewicz was invited by

National Taiwan University Faculty of Law to

teach a class on U.S. legal discourse to LL.M.

students. She also lectured on U.S. trade law at

the Chinese Cultural University Faculty of Law

in Taipei. During her trip, she met with directors

at the Judicial Yuan, the ministry in charge of

judges, to discuss legal education methods and

training.

Professor Thomas Carbonneau continues

work on his book Freedom and Governance in

U.S. Arbitration Law. In January, he moderated

a panel on recent developments in arbitration at

the International Institute for Conflict Preven-

tion and Resolution annual meeting in New York.

Professor Jamison Colburn presented at a

working group symposium at Indiana Univer-

sity, Bloomington, where he joined a team work-

ing on protecting migrations and migratory

species. The team is working on a synthesis arti-

cle to be published in a scientific journal in late

2011.

Professor Lance Cole’s book Congressional

Investigations and Oversight: Case Studies and

Analysis (co-authored with Distinguished Fellow in

Law and Government Stanley M. Brand) was

published in January. The book examines the

legal and policy issues surrounding congres-

sional investigations through a series of case

studies with an emphasis on the period from the

second half of the twentieth century to date. In

October, Professor Cole addressed the legal staff

of the National Credit Union Administration on

“The New Ethical Environment for Business and

Regulatory Attorneys in the Post-Sarbanes-Oxley

Act Era.”

Professor Katrice Bridges Copeland’s arti-

cle, “Preserving the Corporate Attorney-Client

Privilege,” was published last fall in the Univer-

sity of Cincinnati Law Review. Her most recent

work, an article titled “Enforcing Integrity,” was

chosen as part of a blind competitive process for

Saint Louis University Law School’s Health Law

Scholars Workshop. In October, she served as a

William Butler

F A C U L T Y H I G H L I G H T S

Karen Bysiewicz Lance Cole Katrice Bridges Copeland Ellen Dannin




Jill Engle Michael Foreman Gary Gildin Lucy JohnstonWalsh Eileen Kane

panelist on a Supreme Court update panel at the

Just the Beginning Foundation Conference in At-

lanta, Georgia.

Professor Ellen Dannin contributed a chapter

titled “Infrastructure Privatization” to The Oxford

Handbook of State and Local Government Fi-

nance (Robert D. Ebel & John E. Petersen, eds.

2011), with Lee Cokorinos. Her articles, “Marriage

and Law Reform: Lessons from the Nineteenth

Century Michigan Married Women’s Property

Acts,” and “Crumbling Infrastructure—Crumbling

Democracy: Infrastructure Privatization Contracts

and Their Effects on State and Local Governance,”

are due to be published in the Texas Journal of

Women and Law and the Northwestern Journal

of Law and Social Policy, respectively.

Professor Louis Del Duca’s article, “Impact of

Legal Culture and Legal Transplants on the Evolu-

tion of the U.S. Legal System,” (with Alain L. Lev-

asseur) was published in the American Journal of

Comparative Law following its presentation to the

XVIII International Congress of the International

Academy of Comparative Law. He published “On-

line Small Claim Dispute Resolution Develop-

ments” (with Colin Rule and Daniel Nagel) and

“Designing a Global Consumer Online Dispute

Resolution (ODR) System for Cross-Border Small

Value-High Volume Claims—OAS Developments”

(with Colin Rule and Vikki Rogers) in the Uniform

Commercial Code Law Journal. Professor Del Duca

participated in the first meeting of the UNCITRAL

working group on online dispute resolution in Vienna.

In October, Professor Jill Engle served as a

panelist at a Pennsylvania Bar Forum in Philadelphia

titled “Laws on the Frontiers of Technology.”

Civil Rights Appellate Clinic Director and Profes-

sor Michael Foreman presented remarks be-

fore the EEOC on how the lower courts are inter-

preting the Supreme Court’s Gross v. FBL Finan-

cial Services decision and the implications for age

discrimination claims. The Clinic filed an amicus

brief in the Gross case in February 2009.

Professor Gary Gildin’s article, “Strip Searches

and the Silo Effect: Adopting a Holistic Approach

to Charter Remedies,” was published in the book

Taking Remedies Seriously, issued by the Cana-

dian Institute for the Administration of Justice.

His article, “The Supreme Court’s Legislative

Agenda to Free Government from Accountability

for Constitutional Deprivations,” was published in

the Penn State Law Review symposium issue “Re-

flections on Iqbal.” Professor Gildin organized and

moderated “Treating Medical Errors,” an interdis-

ciplinary colloquium featuring a mock medical

negligence trial in which law students served as

advocates and fourth year pediatric residents at

Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center por-

trayed medical witnesses. He also delivered a lec-

ture at Penn State College of Medicine on doctor-

patient communication and medical malpractice.

In November, Gretchen A. Mundorff, president of

the Pennsylvania Bar Association, named Profes-

sor Lucy Johnston-Walsh to a Pennsylvania

Bar Association (PBA) task force that will study

recommendations made by the Interbranch Com-

mission on Juvenile Justice.

Professor Eileen Kane published “Patenting

Genes and Genetic Methods: What’s At Stake?” in

the University of Maryland School of Law Jour-

nal of Business and Technology Law, and was an

invited speaker at their symposium “The Future of

Genetic Diagnosis and Disease: Do Patents Matter?”

She published “Protecting the Intellectual Founda-

tions of Genetic Science,” in GeneWatch, pub-

lished by the Council for Responsible Genetics.



Professor Kane filed an amicus brief at the Fed-

eral Circuit Court of Appeals in Association for

Molecular Pathology v. U.S. Patent and Trade-

mark Office, a case challenging the patenting of

DNA. The amicus brief was filed in support of

the professional medical organizations and pa-

tient advocates who are challenging the patents

on the breast cancer genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2.

Professor David H. Kaye was a discussant at

the Fifth Annual Conference on Empirical Legal

Studies, held at Yale Law School, as well as a

plenary speaker at the 2010 Impression and Pat-

tern Evidence Symposium sponsored by the Na-

tional Institute of Justice, the Bureau of Justice

Assistance, and the FBI. As a member of the Na-

tional Institute of Science and Technology’s Ex-

pert Working Group on Human Factors in

Latent Print Analysis, he is directing the prepa-

ration of a report on best practices for reporting

and testifying on fingerprint identification. Pro-

fessor Kaye also completed the second edition of

The New Wigmore: A Treatise on Evidence: Ex-

pert Evidence. He contributed to a debate titled

“Bayes Wars Redivivus—An Exchange,” in the

International Commentary on Evidence as well

as to a manifesto of law professors and forensic

scientists on “The Need for a Research Culture

in the Forensic Sciences,” to be published in the

UCLA Law Review.

Professor Charles Keckler recently pub-

lished “The Hazard of Precedent,” found in the

Mississippi Law Journal and “Cy Pres and Its

Predators,” in The Pursuit of Justice (E. Lopez,

ed.). Following his Senate confirmation to the

Board of Directors of the Legal Services Corpo-

ration in March 2010, he has now been ap-

pointed as the Chair of LSC’s Operations and

Regulations Committee.

Professor Kit Kinports’ article, “The Supreme

Court’s Love-Hate Relationship with Miranda,”

is scheduled to be published by Northwestern

University’s Journal of Law and Criminology.

Dean Philip J. McConnaughay was invited

to address the Annual Meeting of the European

Law Faculties Association in February at the

University of Warsaw, where he spoke about our

law school’s audiovisual telecommunications ca-

pabilities. His talk was entitled “The Intercon-

nected Future of Global Legal Education.” Upon

learning about and seeing photos of our law

school’s AV classes, law schools from throughout

Europe and the former Soviet Republics expressed

strong interest in pursuing curricular collabora-

tions via AV with The Dickinson School of Law.

Professor Katherine Pearson’s book, The

Law of Financial Abuse and Exploitation co-

authored with Penn State Clinical Professor

Trisha E. Cowart ’07, was published this year.

In November, she presented an update on inter-

national research in ageing with Dr. Una Lynch

at a conference hosted by the Social Policy and

Ageing Research Centre at Trinity College in

Dublin, Ireland. The title of the conference was

“Becoming Visible: Older People as Active Par-

ticipants in the Community and in Long-Term

Care Settings.” Also in November, she presented

a paper co-written with Joe Duffy, lecturer at the

School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social

Work at Queen’s University Belfast, for the

Gerontological Society of America’s Annual con-

ference in New Orleans. Their presentation was

part of a panel discussion on “Stretching the

Boundaries of the Ambivalence Framework:

New Arenas for Research.” Professor Pearson is

also the current chair of the Elder Law Section of

the Pennsylvania Bar Association.

David Kaye Charles Keckler Kit Kinports Katherine Pearson Thomas Place




Nancy Welsh

Professor Tom Place’s article, “Deferring Inef-

fectiveness Claims to the Collateral Review: Ensur-

ing Equal Access and a Right to Appointed Counsel,”

appeared in the Kentucky Law Journal. Professor

Place also recently published the 2010 edition of the

treatise The Post-Conviction Relief Act-Practice

and Procedure with the Pennsylvania Bar Institute.

In October, Professor Catherine Rogers pre-

sented, with co-reporters, chapter 5 of the Restate-

ment (Third) of International Commercial

Arbitration to the Executive Committee of Ameri-

can Law Institute in New York, New York, and ob-

tained final approval. Her book chapter

“International Arbitration’s Public Realm,” in Con-

temporary Issues in International Arbitration

and Mediation: The Fordham Papers, was pub-

lished by Martinus Nijhoff. Her contribution to

Detlev Vagts’s festschrift, “Cross-Border Bankruptcy

as a Model for Regulation of International Attor-

neys,” in Making Transnational Law Work in a

Global Economy: Essays in Honor of Detlev Vagts,

was published by Cambridge University Press.

Professor Victor Romero recently published

two symposium essays. “Christian Realism and

Immigration Reform” appeared in the University

of St. Thomas Law Journal and “Interrogating

Iqbal: Intent, Inertia, and (a lack of) Imagination”

was published in the Penn State Law Review. In

December, Professor Romero was interviewed on

the WPSU-TV program Conversations from Penn

State, where he answered questions on race and

immigration policy in the United States. The program

is available online at http://conversations.psu.edu/

episodes/victor_romero.

The fourth edition of Professor Stephen Ross’s

casebook Sports and the Law (co-authored with

Paul Weiler, Gary Roberts, and Roger Abrams)

was published last fall, as was Statutory Interpre-

tation Stories (edited by Bill Eskridge, the late Phil

Frickey, and Beth Garrett), which contains a chap-

ter he wrote on Flood v. Kuhn, the Supreme Court

decision exempting baseball from antitrust

scrutiny. Professor Ross continues to advise stake-

holders involved with the Indian Premier League

(cricket) and the National Rugby League (Australia).

Professor Geoff Scott’s article “A Protocol for

Evaluating Changing Global Attitudes Toward In-

novation and Intellectual Property Regimes” is

scheduled for publication by the University of

Pennsylvania Journal of International Law this

spring. Professor Scott also serves as a member of

the Uniform Law Commission’s Study Committee

on the Recovery of Stolen Cultural and Artistic Property.

Professor Laurel Terry spoke at the Midyear

Meeting of the Conference of Chief Justices in Jan-

uary 2011 as part of a panel on globalization. Pro-

fessor Terry was a member of the International

Law Association’s Study Group on the Practice and

Procedure of International Courts and Tribunals

that developed “The Hague Principles on Ethical

Standards for Counsel Appearing before Interna-

tional Courts and Tribunals.”

Professor Nancy Welsh’s book chapter, “The

Importance of Context in Comparing the World-

wide Institutionalization of Court-Connected Me-

diation and the Bi-Modal Patterns of Mediation in

the United States and Canada” in ADR in Busi-

ness: Practice and Issues Across Countries and

Cultures (Arnold Ingen-Housz, ed.) is due for pub-

lication this year. Her article “Bringing ‘Alterna-

tive’ Dispute Resolution to Bankruptcy: As Simple

(and Pure) as Motherhood and Apple Pie?” will be

published as part of symposium issue on conflict

resolution and the economic crisis in the Nevada

Law Journal.

Catherine Rogers Laurel TerryVictor Romero Stephen Ross



By Kelly Rimmer

“When you have been fortunate in your life,

there is often a desire to give back,” said J. Rod-

man Steele Jr. ’66. “For me, the Law School has

been one of the most worthy organizations that I

have been associated with.”

Steele, a partner in the national law firm of

Duane Morris LLP, has not only given his

time—he was intimately involved in the Law

School’s merger with Penn State and continues

to serve as a member of its Board of Coun-

selors—but he has also contributed financially to

the Law School’s mission and future through regu-

lar annual support and major gift commitments,

including a $30,000 gift to the Carlisle Building

Campaign. Additionally, in an effort to ensure a

bright future for the Law School as well as to se-

cure his family’s financial future, Steele worked

with Penn State to establish the J. Rodman Jr.

and Karen Steele Charitable Remainder Uni-

trust, a portion of which was funded through the

sale of real estate that was in Steele’s family for

three generations. “Having the proceeds of its

sale benefit education, which was important to

my family, felt appropriate,” said Steele.

A charitable remainder trust (CRT) is estab-

lished when a donor transfers assets (cash or ap-

preciated assets) to the trustee named in the

trust agreement (for example, Penn State). The

donor’s trustee invests the assets for the term of

the trust, which can be for the life of the income

beneficiary (or beneficiaries) or for a term of no

more than twenty years. When the trust ends,

the remaining assets are distributed under the

guidelines that the donor previously set for the

donor’s gift to Penn State. The remainder of the

G I V I N G

PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE, MAKING AN IMPACT NOW

About J. Rodman Steele Jr.At Duane Morris, Steele represents clients in all

phases of patent, trademark, trade secret, and copyright

law. He has provided pro bono counsel and leadership to

many nonprofit organizations and educational institutions

and has been involved in numerous volunteer and advisory

activities.

“I came from a family where public service was a part

of life,” said Steele. “Nonprofit activities have provided a

balance in my own career in private practice where the re

wards often benefit individuals rather than the commu

nityatlarge. My law school friendships also created a

strong impetus for service to the legal profession gener

ally, and also instilled a desire to accept leadership posi

tions in my community.”

Steele is an active triathlete and an age group mem

ber of the U.S. Triathlon Association National Team who has

qualified for a race in Beijing, China, this September. He

also recently conceptualized and formed Sparking Life,

Inc., a nonprofit organization that builds awareness, based

on global scientific research, of the powerful impact of ex

ercise. Rod and Karen reside in West Palm Beach, Florida.continued on page 34


Dear Fellow Alumni:

Please join the leadership of theBoard of Directors of the General AlumniAssociation at a spring meeting where wewill discuss energizing our alumni basethrough a new Alumni Society under thePenn State Alumni Association. The meet-ing will take place on Saturday, April 9,2011, at 10:00 a.m. at the Law School’sCarlisle campus.

In recent years, the board has endeavored to sustainan alumni association that inspires volunteerism, pro-motes the mission and vision of the Law School, facili-tates career advancement, and supports your connectionto our alma mater. We are confident that in order tocontinue to provide meaningful programming and pro-fessional development opportunities to alumni of TheDickinson School of Law, it is worthwhile to take advan-tage of the reach and resources of the Penn State AlumniAssociation.

The Dickinson School of Law Alumni Society, rein-vigorated to reflect the exciting collaborative opportuni-ties afforded by the Law School’s connection to theUniversity, will provide numerous benefits to its mem-bership, including:

• reduced fees or fee waivers for Law School eventsand programs;

• interdisciplinary networking opportunities;• Alumni Society member merchandise; and• access to benefits afforded by membership in the

Penn State Alumni Association, such as retail discountsand travel programs.

We welcome your participation in the spring meet-ing where we will conduct a final review of the AlumniSociety bylaws and move forward with its creation. Toattend, please RSVP to [email protected] or call 888-375-2586.

We look forward to your feedback and questions,which can be directed in the meantime to Robin Fulton, Director of Alumni Relations, [email protected] or 717-241-3504.

Sincerely,

John J. Miravich ’89


Steele trust, which is expected to exceed

$200,000, will fund the Steele Family Schol-

arship to provide recognition and financial

assistance to financially disadvantaged stu-

dents enrolled or planning to enroll at the

Law School.

Endowments such as the Steele Family

Scholarship can only be activated when the

book value of the endowment meets the

minimum level required by the Board of

Trustees for the specific purpose established

by the donor. In the case of a named schol-

arship, that amount is $50,000. The princi-

pal of the Steeles’ trust will not be

transferred to the endowment until the sur-

vivor’s death. However, so that our students

can begin to receive the benefits of their sup-

port now, the Steeles have chosen to “early

activate” their scholarship through annual

support. Early activation allows donors to

witness the impact their endowments will

have when fully funded. To achieve this goal,

donors formally commit to providing funds

each year for a minimum of five years equal

to at least 5 percent of the minimum re-

quired endowment level. These early activa-

tion funds are awarded in the name of the

endowment and for the same purposes, but

they do not become a part of the endow-

ment’s principal. Steele’s son Kevin ’92 and

daughter-in-law Tracy ’95 also contribute

regularly to the Steele Family Scholarship.

Steele, who is a member of Penn State’s

prestigious Mount Nittany and Atherton

donor recognition societies, encourages fel-

low alumni to “remember the experience

and benefits and take the opportunity to

‘give back’ when you can,” adding that much

can be accomplished when alumni work col-

lectively to credit the institutions that have

helped them.

For additional information about chari-

table remainder trusts or other planned giv-

ing options, visit www.giftplanning.psu.edu.

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1960s1961William F.Hoffmeyer, seniorpartner at Hoffmeyer &Semmelman, LLP, recentlypresented seminars onAdministration of Dece-dent’s Estates for theNational Business Insti-tute; Analysis of VariousForms of Easementsand Prevention of theUnauthorized Practiceof Law for the Pennsyl-vania Bar Institute;Analysis of the newBoard of RealtorsAgreement of Sale forthe York County Bar As-sociation; and Review ofVarious Types of Deedsfor the PennsylvaniaTax Assessor’s Associa-tion. William also pre-sented a seminar on TaxClaims deeds to mem-bers of the Tax ClaimBureau Association ofPA at their annual con-vention, held in York,PA.

1966Joseph A. Hurley wasnamed as a 2010Delaware Today TopLawyer. Joseph prac-tices Criminal Defensework in Wilmington,DE.

1970s1972Superior CourtJudge CorrealeStevens has beenelected to a five-yearterm as President Judgeof the Superior Court ofPennsylvania.

1973I. Barry Guerke wasnamed as a 2010Delaware Today TopLawyer. Barry practicespersonal injury law withParkowski, Guerke &Swayze, PA, in Dover,DE.

1977Randall James Rollshas joined Cohn Goldbergand Deutsch, LLP and itsaffiliated title agencyAmerican Trust Title, LLC inTowson, MD.

1979Barry M. Willoughbywas named as a 2010Delaware Today TopLawyer. Barry practiceslabor law with Young,Conaway, Stargatt, & Taylor,LLP in Wilmington, DE.

1980s1980Carol Bosco has beennamed as Senior VicePresident for TheBeechwood Organiza-tion and Project Execu-tive Country Pointe atPlainview, in Plainview,NY.

1981Craig J. Stauden-maier, managing part-ner at Nauman, Smith,Shissler & Hall, LLP, in Har-risburg, PA, recentlyspoke at the WidenerUniversity School ofLaw symposium enti-tled, “The Contributionof the CommonwealthCourt to PennsylvaniaJurisprudence since1970.” Craig addressedthe Court’s impact overits 40 year history on

the Right to Know andSunshine Laws.

1982Irwin W. Aronson,partner at Willig, Williams& Davidson in Harris-burg, PA, presented anem-ployeerela-tionssemi-nar atan Ex-ecutiveDirector Education Pro-gram course presentedby the national PublicHousing Authorities Di-rectors Association andRutgers University.

Cassandra FalineRoberts was named asa 2010 Delaware TodayTop Lawyer. Cassandrapractices in the area ofWorkers Compensationfor Young, Conaway, Stargatt & Taylor, LLP in Wilm-ington, DE.

Vic Stabile has an-nounced his intent topursue nomination tothe Pennsylvania Supe-rior Court. Vic has alsoresigned as chairman ofthe Cumberland CountyRepublican Committeeafter 10 years.

1983LisaHookhasbeenelectedchiefexecu-tive of-ficer of Neustar, theworld’s leading address-ing and policy manage-ment company. Neustar

was founded to meet thetechnical and opera-tional challenges of thecommunications indus-try when the U.S. gov-ernment mandated thatconsumers be able tokeep their telephonenumbers when theyswitched providers. Be-fore her appointment,Lisa served as the com-pany's president andCEO. She joinedNeustar in January2008. Prior to joiningNeustar, Lisa was presi-dent and CEO of Sun-rocket, Inc., a consumerVOIP company. From2001 to 2004, Lisa helda variety of leadershippositions at AOL.

1984Michael Dennehy an-nounced his candidacyfor judge in the 26th Ju-dicial District, coveringColumbia and Montourcounties. Michael is apartner at Marks,McLaughlin and Dennehy.

1985Bob DeSousa hasbeen named as state di-rector for Senator PatToomey’s PennsylvaniaSenate offices. Bob mostrecently served as coun-sel for DethlefsPykosh LawGroup.

Elaine A. Stanko,partner at Fox Rothschild,LLP in Exton, PA, spokeat the Greater ReadingCham-ber ofCom-merceand In-dustryWomenin

C L A S S N O T E S



Leadership breakfast serieson December 14, 2010.

1988Michael W. Arpey hasbeen appointed managing di-rector and member of the op-erating committee for theCarlyle Group in Washington,D.C.

Jacqualine Conforti Bar-nett has been appointed di-rector of institutional equityat Tulane University in NewOrleans, LA. In order to ac-cept this position she left herposition as associate chiefcounsel to the PennsylvaniaState System of Higher Edu-cation.

LindaRovder Flemmingwas investedas the firstfemale Judgeof the Courtof CommonPleas ofCambria County.

1990s1991Mark D. Bradshaw, share-holder at Stevens & Lee, hasbeen nominated to the Hon-orable William W. LipsettInn of Court. He is one of 25members of the DauphinCounty Bar to becomefounding members and bar-risters of the newly formedInn of Court.

Claudia M. Williamsjoined the firm Thomas,Thomas & Hafer, LLP in Harris-burg, PA. Claudia also servesas secretary of the Labor andEmployment Section and at-large zone chair of the YoungLawyers division of thePennsylvania Bar Association.

William R. Caroselli

’66 a partner at

Caroselli Beachler

McTiernan & Conboy,

LLC was recently

named Best Lawyers’

Pittsburgh Product Lia-

bility Lawyer of the

Year for 2011. Caroselli

was also the only Penn-

sylvania attorney with

six listings, which in-

clude Personal Injury

Litigation, Product Lia-

bility Litigation, Com-

mercial Litigation,

Workers Compensation Law, Medical Malpractice Law, and Bet-

the-Company Litigation for 2011.

“Product liability has changed throughout my years of prac-

tice,” said Caroselli. “I started with machine-guarding cases with

negligence standards and progressed to industrial and consumer

products that malfunctioned and ultimately began handling toxic

and recreational products that had insufficient warnings. To be

named by Best Lawyers in six different categories and the Pitts-

burgh Product Liability litigator for 2010 is a true honor. Regard-

less of your area of practice, being curious, interested and open to

suggestions are requirements for success.”

Caroselli’s legal career has spanned more than 40 years. He

has concentrated on personal injury law, toxic torts and complex

litigation, as well as arguing complex matters before the Pennsyl-

vania appellate courts. Caroselli has served as president of the Al-

legheny County Academy of Trial Lawyers, president of the

Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association, and chair of the Discipli-

nary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. In 2009,

Caroselli had two of the fifty largest verdicts and settlements in

Pennsylvania. He is a member of The Dickinson School of Law

Board of Counselors.

Caroselli resides in Pittsburgh, PA, with his wife, Dusty Kirk

’79, a partner at Pepper Hamilton, LLP.



1992Julia K. Munley, ofthe firm Munley, Munley &Cartwright in Harrisburg,PA, has earned the clas-sification of AV RatedAttorney by Martindale-Hubbell.

1995Bruce Bell has retiredfrom the practice of lawand is pursuing a careerin veterinary medicine.Bruce began his studiesin August 2010 at theUniversity of Pennsylva-nia, School of Veteri-nary Medicine. He wasawarded the BernhardtScholarship for Aca-demic Excellence; he isexpected to graduate in2014. Prior to lawschool, Bruce graduatedsumma cum laude fromthe Wharton School ofthe University of Penn-sylvania and was a CPA.After graduating fromThe Dickinson School ofLaw as salutatorian, heserved as law clerk tothe Hon. Peter PaulOlzewski of the SuperiorCourt of Pennsylvaniaand joined the BusinessDepartment of White andWilliams, LLP in Philadel-phia, PA. In 2005 and2006, Bruce was se-lected by his peers as a"Rising Star" in Penn-sylvania Super LawyerMagazine. After leavingWhite and Williams in2008, Bruce attendedthe Drexel UniversityCollege of Medicine andearned a post-baccalau-reate certificate in thesciences in 2010. Whilepursuing his post-bac-calaureate studies, he

worked as a veterinarytechnician for the Penn-sylvania Society for thePrevention of Cruelty toAnimals and SimmonsHospital. Bruce plans toconcentrate his veteri-nary practice on smallanimals.

Steve Fairlie, manag-ing partner of Fairlie &Lippy, PC, in NorthWales, PA, taught aseminar for the Penn-sylvania Association ofCriminal DefenseLawyers involving thedefense of Pennsylvanianarcotics cases in Octo-ber 2010. Named aSuper Lawyer byPhiladelphia Magazinein 2010, he holds theMartindale Hubbell AVrating and is rated10.0/10/0 onAVVO.com. He wasnamed a 2010 “Awe-some Attorney” by Sub-urban Life Magazine inboth criminal defenseand personal injury. Heis one of just a handfulof attorneys to receivethe award in two sepa-rate practice areas. Fair-lie is chair of theMontgomery County(PA) Bar Association’sCriminal Defense Com-mittee.

Michael Kuhnhas rejoined Reed SmithLLP. Michael will be amember of the Corpo-rate and SecuritiesGroup at Reed Smith’sRichmond, VA office.

1996James J. Conaboy’96 and Edwin “Chip”Abrahamsen, Jr. ’04led a team of attorneys

including Kevin M.Conaboy ’99 that re-cently secured a settle-ment of $5 million forthe families of sevenspecial needs childrenwho were abused by ateacher employed byNEIU 19. They believethe settlement to be oneof the largest settle-ments in the history ofPennsylvania. JamesConaboy and ChipAbrahamsen were alsorecently named to theMillion Dollar Advo-cates Forum and theMulti-Million DollarAdvocates Forum.

Amy C. Foerster hasbeen named to serve onthe education commit-tee of PennsylvaniaGovernor Tom Corbett’stransition team. Thetransi-tionteamconsistsof 17com-mitteesrespon-sible forreviewing relevant oper-ation of the Common-wealth’s departmentsand agencies. She servesas vice chair of theHigher Education Prac-tice Group at Saul Ewing,LLP in Harrisburg, PA,and was named partneras of January 1, 2011.

1997Thomas Moore is avice president for Re-tirement & Philan-thropic Services at Bankof America Merrill Lynch, a position he has heldsince 2006.

1998Ron S. Chima hasbeen appointed generalcounsel with Hershey Hospitality Trust and HersheyHospitality Management, LPin Harrisburg, PA.

Randy Varner hasbeen elected as a mem-ber of the law firm ofMcNees, Wallace & Nurickin Harrisburg, PA.

1999Vance E. Antonaccihas been elected as amember of the law firmof McNees, Wallace &Nurick in Lancaster, PA.

Tara E. Daub, a mem-ber of the Labor andEmployment Group atNixon Peabody LLP, hasbeen elected recently tothe firm’s partnership.She is based in theirLong Island, NY officeand counsels and repre-sents employers in allareas of labor and em-ployment law.

Kevin M. Conaboy(see James. J.Conaboy ’96).

2000s2000Julie G. DiSalviohasjoinedStradleyRononas di-rectorofhumanresources.

Matt Fogal announcedplans to run for the of-fice of Franklin CountyDistrict Attorney, which



he currently holds. Hewas appointed to theposition following thedeath of Jack Nelsonmore than a year ago.

Matthew M. Haarwaspro-motedtopart-ner inthe liti-gationdepart-

ment at Saul Ewing, LLP inHarrisburg, PA.

Jeffrey Malak wasnamed one of the 2000Pennsylvania Lawyerson the Fast Track by theLegal Intelligencer. Heis a partner with Chariton, Schwager & Malak inWilkes-Barre, PA.

Amy J. Phillips, sen-ior as-sociateat Hoffmeyer &Semmelman,LLP inYork,PA,

published a case note ti-tled “Limited Testimonyof Social Worker Al-

lowed over Mother’sObjection” in the Sep-tember 2010 issue ofthe Pennsylvania Fam-ily Lawyer.

David J. Tshudy hasjoined the Harrisburgoffice of Pepper Hamilton,LLP, where he will con-tinue focusing on realestate transactions.

2002Jonathan K. Moorehas joined the Philadel-phia office of Blank Rome,LLP. He is part of thefirm’s consumer finan-cial service industryteam. As Of Counsel inthe seven-attorneyteam, he will continuehis consumer financialservices regulatorypractice as well as rep-resent clients in middlemarket transactions andloan workouts. He hasalso begun representingemerging companies invarious transactionmatters, includingmergers and acquisi-tions.

2004Edwin “Chip” Abrahamsen Jr. (seeJames J. Conaboy’96).

T. Matthew Creechwas recognized at theNorth Carolina Law-yers Weekly firstEmerging Legal Leaderevent as oneof thestate’smostout-stand-ingyoung lawyers. He is anattorney with SmithMoore Leatherwood inGreensboro, NC.

Gene MatthewMolino married StaceyVeronica Rutt on Octo-ber 17, 2010. Gene is anassociate with Vough &Associates in Pittston,PA, and serves as judi-cial law clerk to Hon.David W. Lupas of theLuzerne County Courtof Common Pleas.

2007Lauren E. Bogar re-cently joined the Law Offices of James D. Bogarfollowing her three-yearclerkship for the Honor-able J. Michael Eakin ofthe Supreme Court ofPennsylvania. The LawOffices of James D.Bogar, which also in-cludes James Bogar’74 and Jennifer B.

Hipp ’00, focuses onestate planning, real es-tate, business planning,municipal and adoptionlaw.

2005Saleem Majwiwas elected as associatedirector of the CancerSupport Community ofthe Greater Lehigh Val-ley’s Board of Directors.Saleem is an associatewith Tallman, Hudders, &Sorrentino, the PA officeof Norris McLaughlin & Marcus, PA.

2008Jessica L. Van-derKam has joinedStuckert & Yates in New-town, PA.

2010Mark T. Orndorff hasjoined the firm Kulla,Barkdoll, Ullman andPainter, PC, at both theirWaynesboro and Cham-bersburg, PA, offices.

Tracey Ross hasjoined the firm Keller,Keller and Beck, LLC inWaynesboro, PA.

Meghan E. Young hasjoined the Family LawSection of Lepley, Engelman & Yaw, LLC.

ALUMNI EVENTS

Wednesday, April 6Florida Alumni Luncheon Miami, FL

Saturday, April 9General Alumni AssociationSpring Meeting Carlisle, PA

Wednesday, April 13Penn State Law ReviewAlumni Reception Carlisle, PA

Saturday, April 16Blue-White WeekendAlumni CLE & TailgateUniversity Park, PA

Wednesday, May 4Alumni Reception at PBA Annual Meeting Sheraton Philadelphia Center City HotelPhiladelphia, PA



NICOLE BERMAN ’09

Nicole Berman ’09 was an attorney at MidPenn

Legal Services in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania,

where she represented low-income clients in civil

legal aid matters. “She was one of the nicest and

brightest young attorneys we’ve ever had,” said Rho-

dia Thomas, executive director of MidPenn Legal

Services to the Patriot-News. As a student, Berman

was active in the Family Law Clinic and the Public

Interest Law Fund. Classmate Michael Lightfoot

’09 worked closely with Berman in the Family Law

Clinic.

“She enjoyed her life, no matter what. She shook

off disappointment and trucked ahead. She was kind

and caring while at the same time very blunt. What-

ever she was doing, she grabbed onto it and did it

with enthusiasm. She will be missed,” he said.

IN MEMORIAM

Hon. Theodore S. Gutowicz ’45

Morgan Jones ’89

Arthur McDermott ’77

Hon. John C. Pettit ’63

Davis Yohe ’50

EDDIE RICHARDSON ’09

“Live like it’s Friday,” was Eddie

Richardson’s motto. Richardson, who

passed away two days shy of this twenty-

seventh birthday, will be “greatly missed

for his boundless energy, contagious enthu-

siasm for life, irrepressible sense of humor,

and that trademark Eddie smile that could-

n’t help but put a smile on the faces of

everyone around him,” said Law School

Professor Kit Kinports at a memorial event.

“He had the ability to pull people to-

gether regardless of their beliefs or ideals

and make them the best of friends,” said

Derek Colvin ’09. “His energy and drive

for life was contagious. Eddie truly knew no

boundaries and taught me and many of my

friends to view things from a different per-

spective. He was a great friend and will not

be forgotten.”

To honor his memory, the Class of

2009 has chosen to engrave a library read-

ing table at each Law School location.


2009-2010 ANNUAL REPORT

OF DONORS

If your name has been listed incorrectly or has been omitted, please contact:Office of DevelopmentThe Dickinson School of LawThe Pennsylvania State UniversityLewis Katz Hall, 333 West South StreetCarlisle, PA 170132899

7172405217 [email protected]

We appreciate your feedback.

It is our pleasure to share with you the 2009-2010

Annual Report of Donors to The Dickinson School

of Law. Over the course of 2009-2010, 743 donors (in-

cluding alumni, friends, firms, and organizations) gave

almost $2.9 million in gifts and pledges to the Law

School. Of those totals, 578 alumni contributed approx-

imately $1.2 million in gifts and pledges. The Law School

received an additional $5.9 million in previously

recorded pledge payments in fiscal year 2009-2010.

In addition to recognizing our annual donors, we

would also like to acknowledge and thank those who

have generously supported the Law School through gifts

to our endowment, as well as those whose current-year

and/or lifetime giving totals have qualified them for

membership in the Law School’s and the University’s

most prestigious giving societies. These giving societies

honor the important role that donors play in our success

and inspire new levels of philanthropy.

Every effort has been made to avoid errors in all

sections of our Annual Report.

— Kelly RimmerDirector of Development and Alumni Affairs

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42 Penn State University Dickinson School of Law Annual Report • law.psu.edu

For the Future CampaignAs we have previously reported, the Law School is currently

engaged in the most ambitious fundraising effort in our history:

a $35 million For the Future campaign. To date, we have gen-

erated nearly $26.5 million toward our goal, but we need the

support of our alumni if we are to reach our $35 million goal

by June 2014. We are grateful to have the leadership and sup-

port of James W. Durham ’65, who serves as the Law

School’s campaign chair.

The Law School’s For the Future campaign seeks to pro-

vide much-needed student scholarship support, ensuring ac-

cess to the most-deserving and highly qualified students and

enabling us to compete for top law students. Through the cam-

paign, we also hope to grow our interdisciplinary programs, to

build our faculty strength and capacity, foster collaborations

throughout the University, and expand the educational and

professional opportunities available to our students.

With the philanthropic support of our alumni and

friends, we can build upon our past and create new

strength, for our students and For the Future.

For the Future Campaign Objectives

Campaign Objectives Dickinson School of Law Goals

Ensuring Student Opportunity—Students with the ability and ambition to attend

the Law School will have this opportunity through scholarship support.

$4,500,000

Enriching the Student Experience—Students will thrive in a stimulating atmosphere that

fosters global involvement, community service, creative expression, and personal growth.

$1,000,000

Building Faculty Strength and Capacity—Students will study with exceptional

professors and scholars.$5,000,000

Fostering Discovery and Creativity—Students and faculty members will come together

within and across disciplines to pursue interdisciplinary research.

$1,250,000

Sustaining a Tradition of Quality—Students will continue to work and study with

faculty whose scholarship is enhanced by continuing philanthropic support.

$23,250,000

TOTAL WORKING GOAL $35,000,000


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2009-2010 HONOR ROLL

CLASS OF 1927Class Participation 50%$200,000 AND ABOVE Sarah M. Jones*

CLASS OF 1935$15,000-$19,999Glenn E. Thomson*

CLASS OF 1938Class Participation 100%$2,500-$4,999Dr. Leonard R. Blumberg*

CLASS OF 1939Class Participation 100%$1,000-$2,499The Honorable Morris M.

Terrizzi

CLASS OF 1940Class Participation 50%$150,000-$199,999Fred B. Gieg*

CLASS OF 1946Class Participation 14%GIFTS UP TO $250Leonard G. Schumack

CLASS OF 1947Class Participation 14%$1,000-$2,499Harry W. Speidel

CLASS OF 1948Class Participation 13%$1,000-$2,499William R. Cooper II

$500-$999Robert J. Barben

$250-$499Boyd H. Walker

GIFTS UP TO $250The Honorable H. Joseph

Hepford*George M. Manderbach

CLASS OF 1949Class Participation 7%$250-$499John C. Keeney

CLASS OF 1950Class Participation 14%$500-$999Murray Mackson

GIFTS UP TO $250Joseph H. Jones Sr.

CLASS OF 1951Class Participation 21%$1,000-$2,499The Honorable Edwin M.

Kosik

$250-$499John A. RoeThe Honorable William W.

Caldwell

GIFTS UP TO $250The Honorable John W.

KellerThe Honorable John A.

MacPhailVram Nedurian Jr.Charles W. Staudenmeier Jr.James H. Wagner

CLASS OF 1952Class Participation 25%$1,000-$2,499Robert J. Landy

GIFTS UP TO $250David C. Dickson Jr.William F. HigieThe Honorable Thomas C.

Mannix

CLASS OF 1953Class Participation 26%$1,000-$2,499Anthony C. Falvello

$500-$999Roger D. Mulhollen

$250-$499William E. Schantz

GIFTS UP TO $250Dr. Robert M. FreyDarlington Hoopes Jr.James H. Murray

CLASS OF 1954Class Participation 34%$1,000-$2,499Robert P. Leiby Jr.

$500-$999Howard L. Kitzmiller

$250-$499Robert A. Weinert

GIFTS UP TO $250The Honorable Jane M.

AlexanderJay L. Benedict Jr.Allan J. BergerThe Honorable Arthur D.

DalessandroMichael J. Hudacek Sr.Roger N. NanovicWilliam G. Watson

CLASS OF 1955Class Participation 12%$1,000-$2,499Henry J. Steiner

GIFTS UP TO $250Donald L. MastenIrwin Schneider

CLASS OF 1956Class Participation 18%$1,000-$2,499Sidney D. Kline Jr.Sandor Yelen

$500-$999The Honorable D. Richard

Eckman*

$250-$499Sidney Balick

GIFTS UP TO $250Harold S. GoldA. Earl Mays

CLASS OF 1957Class Participation 9%$1,000-$2,499Joseph Nadel

GIFTS UP TO $250Ronald J. Hagarman

CLASS OF 1958Class Participation 10%$500-$999Marianne S. Lavelle

GIFTS UP TO $250Howard A. BermanNeil Hurowitz

CLASS OF 1959Class Participation 17%$2,500-$4,999The Honorable LeRoy S.

Zimmerman

$250-$499Philip G. GuarneschelliSherwood L. Yergey

GIFTS UP TO $250Charles M. Brooks Jr.John M. DranchekLeonard TintnerErnest R. Walker

CLASS OF 1960Class Participation 17%$1,000-$2,499Thomas A. BeckleyJames L. Hollinger

$500-$999Philip C. Herr II

$250-$499James S. Routch

GIFTS UP TO $250Robert E. Diehl Jr.Robert L. Keuch

CLASS OF 1961Class Participation 11%$1,000-$2,499Carl A. Belin Jr.

$500-$999W. Marshall Dawsey

$250-$499Julius J. Ciesielka Jr.

CLASS OF 1962Class Participation 16%$12,500-$14,999Edwin L. Klett

* Deceased



$1,000-$2,499The Honorable Sylvia H.

Rambo

$250-$499The Honorable Wayne G.

Hummer Jr.

GIFTS UP TO $250Robert R. BlackThe Honorable Robert C.

JubelirerThe Honorable F. Joseph

LeaheyRockwell O'Sheill

CLASS OF 1963Class Participation 14%$1,000-$2,499H. Laddie Montague Jr.Charles B. Zwally

$250-$499Jan M. Wiley

GIFTS UP TO $250Gerald J. BattRichard M. GoldbergRobert R. Rice

CLASS OF 1964Class Participation 13%$500-$999Robert G. Sable

$250-$499Herbert W. Hoffman

GIFTS UP TO $250The Honorable Jerome P.

CheslockJerome B. FrankCarl R. HallgrenIvan Mendelsohn

CLASS OF 1965Class Participation 13%$12,500-$14,999James W. Durham

$1,000-$2,499Carmen P. BelefonteIra H. Weinstock$500-$999Harry B. Yost

$250-$499Robert W. Crowe

GIFTS UP TO $250William B. Anstine Jr.David B. Ward

CLASS OF 1966Class Participation 21%$5 million and aboveLewis Katz

$15,000-$19,999William R. Caroselli

$5,000-$9,999J. Rodman Steele Jr.

$2,500-$4,999The Honorable Bernard

BalickThe Honorable Helen S.

Balick

$1,000-$2,499Robert A. Mills

$500-$999J. Richard Lauver

$250-$499Wayne N. CordesD. Grant PeacockGerald J. Spitz

GIFTS UP TO $250Jerome FoersterAlbert G. Rutherford II

CLASS OF 1967Class Participation 10%$500-$999Neal R. CramerFrederick S. Wolfson

$250-$499Glenn E. Hitchens

GIFTS UP TO $250William M. McCarty Jr.Herbert R. NurickArthur M. Toensmeier

CLASS OF 1968Class Participation 14%$1,000-$2,499James I. Tarman Jr.

$500-$999Donald G. DeibertLeo E. DouvilleGerald K. Morrison

GIFTS UP TO $250Roger J. EckerThe Honorable Louis J.

FarinaJon C. LyonsWilliam H. McNees Jr.The Honorable Gary R.

MyersHerbert F. RubensteinThe Honorable Howard M.

SpizerThe Honorable Lewis W.

Wetzel

CLASS OF 1969Class Participation 11%$1,000-$2,499Willis A. Siegfried Jr.

$500-$999Harvey A. Feldman LeRoy SmigelThe Honorable John C.

Uhler

$250-$499John B. Mancke

GIFTS UP TO $250Ira John DunnPaul H. HarringtonJames A. PruyneDean A. Weidner

CLASS OF 1970Class Participation 18%$1,000-$2,499Edward S. Newlin

$250-$499Keith A. ClarkHugh J. HutchisonS. Lee Ruslander IIJoseph J. VelitskyFrank D. Wagner

GIFTS UP TO $250William A. AddamsAlan W. BehringerJ. Kitridge FegleyWilliam J. GeringJack M. GornallWilliam L. KnechtStephen W. Townsend

CLASS OF 1971Class Participation 9%$1,000-$2,499Thomas A. Himler Jr.William J. Schaaf

$500-$999Robert P. BarbarowiczF. Warren Jacoby

GIFTS UP TO $250Larry J. FolmarRaymond C. Hedger Jr.

CLASS OF 1972Class Participation 14%$10,000-$12,499Eugene S. Cavallucci

$5,000-$9,999John C. Bradley Jr.

$1,000-$2,499Michael A. Fetzner

$500-$999The Honorable Thomas M.Golden*

$250-$499Taylor P. AndrewsScot D. GillThe Honorable Kevin A.

HessJames K. Nicely

GIFTS UP TO $250John W. BurgeThe Honorable John E.

DomalakesLillian B. GaskinBarbara B. HutchinsonNoel K. McKeownRenee SarajianJeffrey L. SnookThe Honorable Correale

StevensCraig A. StoneThe Honorable John J.

ThomasJoseph R. Wyatt II

CLASS OF 1973Class Participation 10%$1,000-$2,499Paul W. BrannBruce W. FickenRobert L. Weldon



$500-$999I. Barry Guerke

$250-$499Richard L. Erdmann

GIFTS UP TO $250John J. Burfete Jr.Bruce M. EckertJohn B. Hannum Jr.Dominic J. KeatingMichael J. ReiterDaniel R. SchuckersThe Honorable Albert J.

Snite Jr.

CLASS OF 1974Class Participation 13%$20,000-$24,999Conrad A. Falvello

$5,000-$9,999Dale F. Shughart Jr.*

$1,000-$2,499Joseph A. Cottonaro Dennis J. GounleyMartha A. Zatezalo

$500-$999The Honorable Timothy P.

Creany

$250-$499Benjamin A. CeroDavid R. EshelmanThe Honorable Thomas A.

James Jr.The Honorable Stuart K.

MillerJohn C. Phillips Jr.

GIFTS UP TO $250Zygmunt R. Bialkowski Jr.Wayne A. BromfieldClarence M. Myer Jr.Edmund G. MyersKenneth E. Nicely*The Honorable Charles

Saylor

CLASS OF 1975Class Participation 13%$2,500-$4,999Ward A. Bower

$1,000-$2,499The Honorable J. Michael

EakinReid H. Weingarten

$500-$999The Honorable KimRichard GibsonErnest N. Helling

$250-$499P. Clarkson Collins Jr.David H. WilliamsHenry T. Zale

GIFTS UP TO $250Peter J. AndersonH. Richard BrooksDavid L. HotchkissGregory M. KerwinJoseph A. Layman Jr.Jay R. MeloyThomas K. Noonan

CLASS OF 1976Class Participation 11%$500-$999Robert P. TrinkleJohn F. Wilson

$250-$499Carl S. ChronisterJohn A. CovinoGregory B. Fraser John S. Lopatto IIIDonald E. Wieand Jr.

GIFTS UP TO $250Warner K. DepuyThe Honorable C.Theodore Fritsch Jr.Michael W. KingJohn F. LyonsD. Barry Pritchard Jr.E. Paula QuinnThe Honorable Robert E.

Simpson Jr.John F. Stoviak

CLASS OF 1977Class Participation 13%$1,000-$2,499Roger A. ButtersJudith L. NocitoDonna Stehman Weldon

$500-$999Robert H. BickertonDaniel A. Miscavige

$250-$499Horace M. EhrgoodDon Parks FosterR. Burke McLemore Jr.Edward A. Stankoski Jr.

GIFTS UP TO $250Greta R. AulThe Honorable David F.

BortnerJeffrey R. BoswellGlenn E. MayerschoffThe Honorable Carmen D.

MinoraThe Honorable Steven J.

NearyTimothy M. SlavishJames F. Spade Jr.CDR Dean E. Wanderer

CLASS OF 1978Class Participation 13%$1,000-$2,499Remo J. ButeraDonald F. Smith Jr.Ellen M. Viakley

$500-$999Kathy L. Pape

$250-$499Susan T. CovinoBarbara R. McLemore

GIFTS UP TO $250Gary F. AnkabrandtJames D. Flower Jr.A. Sheldon KovachThe Honorable Mary

Hannah LeavittWilliam R. LevyJeffrey P. LewisMichael R. RundleG. Philip RutledgeJohn W. SchmehlBarbara L. SmithThe Honorable Thomas I.

Vanaskie

CLASS OF 1979Class Participation 19%$15,000-$19,999Dusty E. Kirk

$1,000-$2,499Bernard J. DonohueHarry A. HorwitzR. Joseph LandyMichael J. McDonaldDavid A. Sprentall

$500-$999James J. GillottiG. Griffith Lindsay IIIDaniel D. PipitonePatricia Chason Pipitone

$250-$499Philip S. CosentinoThe Honorable David C.

KlementikDaryl F. Moyer

GIFTS UP TO $250Carl E. AlexisDaniel E. P. BausherCynthia Skibicki CollinsJesse J. CooperAlbin F. DrostCatherine S. DrostHubert X. GilroyRonald D. JaphaHolly M. KerwinTerrence J. KerwinThomas M. MillerThe Honorable Roger N.

Nanovic IIMary Ann RossiCharles K. SerineBarbara Kosik Whitaker

CLASS OF 1980Class Participation 7%$1,000-$2,499Michael R. Bucci Jr.Jeffrey L. Hyde

GIFTS UP TO $250Scott A. FleischauerThe Honorable Joseph F.

KameenCarol A. KristoffRhonda J. LevyJoan Dawley MaherDr. Irwin H. SiegelBarbara Sumple-SullivanWilliam A. K. TitelmanMaribeth Wilt-Seibert

CLASS OF 1981Class Participation 9%$250-$499Edward Balzarini Jr.David H. RattiganSteven J. WennbergDoris A. WojnarowskiAlan F. Woolslare

GIFTS UP TO $250The Honorable Michael J.

BarrasseLaura L. ConnellThe Honorable Glen R.

GrellDr. John M. HumePaul B. KerriganRichard C. LenglerJoseph F. McNulty Jr.Celia D. SerineDaniel L. Sullivan



CLASS OF 1982Class Participation 8%$1,000-$2,499Sharon D. Hyde

$500-$999The Honorable Albert H.

Masland

$250-$499George JosephDennis R. McEwenThomas A. MillerThe Honorable Carol L.

Van Horn

GIFTS UP TO $250Jeffrey T. BitzerJoseph S. ColbassaniLouise A. RyndRev. John C. PetersonMary Benefield SeiverlingJeffrey W. Wagner

CLASS OF 1983Class Participation 6%Class Volunteer: James R. Flandreau$5,000-$9,999James L. Patton Jr.

$1,000-$2,499Daniel A. Polanski

$500-$999Brig. Gen. Christopher F.

BurneGeorge E. CorneliusPeter J. Wolfson

GIFTS UP TO $250Richard J. EnterlineJames R. FlandreauN. Timothy GuarneschelliSusan M. RooneyCharles E. Shields IIIE. Filmore Williams III

CLASS OF 1984Class Participation 6%$1,000-$2,499James R. Walker

$500-$999Nicholas Bybel Jr.Pamela G. Shuman

GIFTS UP TO $250J. Adam MatlawskiThe Honorable Jeffrey L.

MenschCarl J. Mollica

Kathy W. MorrisonThe Honorable Terrence

R. NealonLinda S. NoonanSusan M. Noonan

CLASS OF 1985Class Participation 5%$1,000-$2,499Heidi F. Eakin

$500-$999Caroline H. West

$250-$499Elizabeth B. Place

GIFTS UP TO $250Col. Gregory B. CoeBrian K. EstepDebra S. HannonAnne D. MatlawskiMark E. Morrison

CLASS OF 1986Class Participation 5%$500-$999James M. Gould

$250-$499Stephen R. LazunConrad J. Miller III

GIFTS UP TO $250Mary L. BuckmanMatthew R. GoverLinda J. RamseyJames B. ReedSilvio M. SilviLee A. Stivale

CLASS OF 1987Class Participation 10%$2,500-$4,999James L. Fritz

$500-$999Robert A. Badman Jr.

$250-$499Douglas ColemanJohn N. Ellison

GIFTS UP TO $250Patricia G. CramerElizabeth A. Erickson-

KameenThe Honorable John R.

GordnerDavid M. LaucksJohn MirabellaRichard C. Seneca

W. Alan ShawLawrence J. Valeriano Jr.Melissa R. VancePatricia R. Zonnenberg

CLASS OF 1988Class Participation 7%$1,000-$2,499Richard T. Kupersmith

$500-$999The Honorable Jan R.

Jurden

$250-$499Randall S. McHughDavid R. Morgan

GIFTS UP TO $250W. Scott ArmingtonLinda Rovder FlemingPatricia J. KennedyCraig A. DiehlMeg Valicenti ReedGail N. SangerDavid E. SchwagerElizabeth A. WhittleWilliam F. Wolfe

CLASS OF 1989Class Participation 6%Class Volunteer: Peter A. Pentz$1,000-$2,499Peter L. Tracey

$500-$999William M. Lafferty

GIFT UP TO $250The Honorable Richard L.

AbbottAngelo T. AlmontiNeal C. BelgamBrian W. BisignaniJoseph S. D’Amico Jr.Larry D. GasteigerJohn J. MiravichScott D. MoorePeter A. PentzFrancis G. Troyan

CLASS OF 1990Class Participation 7%$1,000-$2,499Michael R. Dzwonczyk

$500-$999Xiaomin Chen

$250-$499Brian W. BolashJim H. Fields Jr.

GIFTS UP TO $250Robin A. BrennerBruce L. CoyerRonald L. DaughertySally Garber DaughertyA. Edea DiFonzo-BariloSusan N. DukeSteven R. MarcuseStephen H. PriceHelen E. RizosPeter F. Weiss

CLASS OF 1991Class Participation 2%Class Volunteers: William C. Rhodes $250-$499Jeffrey S. GrossWilliam C. Rhodes

GIFTS UP TO $250Bhavana S. BoggsAlison Taylor

CLASS OF 1992Class Participation 5%$5,000-$9,999Luci Jankowski McClure

$1,000-$2,499Paul L. Marrella

$250-$499Kevin R. Steele

GIFTS UP TO $250Andrew F. FickMartin A. FritzCharles J. KerstetterAlan K. SableElizabeth A. SchwartzK. Michael SullivanMaryann E. Zoll

CLASS OF 1993Class Participation 3%$2,500-$4,999Dr. James R. MontgomeryRochelle D. Quiggle

GIFTS UP TO $250Clark DeVereCarl R. Shultz

CLASS OF 1994Class Participation 7%$2,500-$4,999Curtis B. Toll



$1,000-$2,499Elizabeth J. Vastine

$500-$999Carol M. KosikAnn G. St. Ledger

GIFTS UP TO $250Joan P. DaileyElizabeth J. GantKimberly S. GraySteven K. HaasStuart L. HallChristopher M. KazmaierBarbara A. Ruth-Cook

CLASS OF 1995Class Participation 3%Class Volunteer: Tracy L. Steele$500-$999Wendy Holden Gavin

$250-$499Tracy L. Steele

GIFTS UP TO $250Pamela R. BowlesCarolyn A. MorganRoss H. PiferJames M. Townsend Jr.

CLASS OF 1996Class Participation 3%$500-$999Michael J. Gavin

$250-$499Rita M. Patel

GIFTS UP TO $250Robert J. BeinMatthew S. DeCampJeffrey E. Havran

CLASS OF 1997Class Participation 5%Class Volunteer: Stephanie Nolan Deviney$500-$999Stephanie Nolan Deviney

GIFTS UP TO $250Denise R. FosterAllan NazarovOliver C. Overlander IIIJohn P. RodgersVictor E. ScomillioCharles T. Young Jr.

CLASS OF 1998Class Participation 3%GIFTS UP TO $250Scott A. EdwardsDaniel N. GallucciAngela M. KerwinZachary T. H. ManzellaAlicia S. Miller

CLASS OF 1999Class Participation 2%GIFTS UP TO $250Tara Eyer DaubJoshua A. DaubKelly Herten DeckerAlan W. FlennerEmily M. Nazarov

CLASS OF 2000Class Participation 5%GIFTS UP TO $250Shelley L. CentiniDenise M. CordesAndrew J. CordesMatthew B. McGuireLola R. PerkinsPaul T. RushtonKaren Miller Seivard

CLASS OF 2001Class Participation 3%$1,000-$2,499Christylee L. Peck

$250-$499Benjamin C. Abrams

GIFTS UP TO $250Benjamin R. Farahani Christa Kirby SchottThomas P. Young

CLASS OF 2002Class Participation 4%$500-$999Drew A. Morris

GIFTS UP TO $250Robert J. Donaghy IIICindy Lou FrankeEric L. JohnsonJennifer L. La BelleBryan E. ProbstMartha Wright Probst

CLASS OF 2003GIFTS UP TO $250John J. Di ChelloFrank V. EmersonAmerica Nieves-FebresJarrett J. FerentinoRyan J. Fleming

Kimberly M. GillSuzanne M. HillSamuel Taylor Hirzel

CLASS OF 2004Class Participation 3%$500-$999Andrew D. Cordo

GIFTS UP TO $250Christine KaneJocelyn A. HillJoshua D. HillGene M. MolinoCrystal J. Stryker

CLASS OF 2005Class Participation 5%$1,000-$2,499Gregory M. Lane

$500-$999Ann C. Cordo

$250-$499Matthew G. Cunningham

GIFTS UP TO $250Ishmael P. AlejoChristopher B. ConnardChristopher J. DelGaizoJennifer A. GablerWilliam B. GablerAnthony R. HoltzmanBenjamin F. JohnsRandall C. Lenhart Jr.Michael P. Reynold

Sarah S. YocumShannon O. Young

CLASS OF 2006Class Participation 3%$250-$499John P. Karoly III

GIFTS UP TO $250Robert G. ByramMark J. CutronaVirginia C. ForemanRene M. GornallMarcy L. McCulloughMarci E. Sideman Miller

CLASS OF 2007Class Participation 2%GIFTS UP TO $250Lisa BigonyAdam J. LatraAlexander O. Ward

CLASS OF 2009Class Participation 2%GIFTS UP TO $250Amala Abdur-RahmanShane D. BroderickJoshua E. KleinAlexander F. Smith

CLASS OF 2010Class Participation 1%GIFTS UP TO $250Mark S. Polin



$5,000,000 AND ABOVEKatz FoundationLewis Katz ’66

$250,000$499,000Charles B. Degenstein

FoundationSidney Apfelbaum, Jeffrey

C. Apfelbaum ’77, and Michael Apfelbaum ’85

$200,000$249,000Penn State Alumni

Association

$50,000$99,000Kline Trust

$20,000$24,999McQuaide, Blasko, Fleming

& Faulkner, Inc.Rhoads and Sinon

$5,000$9,999Hall FoundationUnited Way of The Capital

Region

$2,500$4,999Alcoa FoundationBlake, Cassels & Graydon, LLPFenwick & West, LLPGibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP

$1,000$2,499Benjamin & Belle Cogan

Foundation, Inc.Buchanan Ingersoll

Professional CorporationCommunity Foundation of

New JerseyErnst & Young U.S., LLPKPMG, LLPLatham & Watkins, LLPMary T. Sachs TrustPennsylvania Bar AssociationPittsburgh FoundationPotter, Anderson & Corroon,

LLP

$250$500Associated Student ActivitiesCitizen’s Fire Co. #1Eugene Hoaster Company, Inc.JustGiveLevin Legal GroupM3 PropertiesManderbach FordSnell & Wilmer, LLP

GIFTS UP TO $250Abrahamsen, Conaboy &

Abrahamsen, PC Anzalone Law OfficesB-H Agency, RealtorsBlavatt & BlavattChariton & SchwagerD.L.M., Inc.Falvello Law Firm Fidelity Investments

Charitable FundFine, Wyatt & Carey, PCFirst United Bank

Mortgage CompanyGettysburg College

Holland, Brady, Grabowski, PC

Hourigan, Kluger & Quinn, PCKelly and KellyKissinger, Bigatel and

Brower RealtorsKoinania Guide ServiceLaw Office of Foley, Cognetti,

Comerford, Cimini & Cummins

Law Offices of Galasso, Kimler, et al.

Leitzinger Imports, Inc.Lexis NexisMcClenahen Law Firm, LLCMotivActionMount Airy LodgePhelan, Hallinan &

Schmieg, LLPSageworth Trust Company Scartelli, Distasio &

Kowalski, PCVinsko & Associates

CORPORATIONS, FOUNDATIONS, LAW FIRMS,TRUSTS, AND ORGANIZATIONSGifts from corporations, foundations, law firms, trusts, and other organizations enable The

Dickinson School of Law to provide a legal education as practical, creative and excellent as

any in the United States. The following list includes organizations that made a direct gift to

the School or matched contributions from alumni supporters. The Dickinson School of Law

is grateful for these invaluable partnerships.

$200,000 AND ABOVEHazel G. Glessner

$25,000$49,000Mary M. Eshelman

$1,000$2,499The Honorable Earl H.

and Louise R. CarrollProfessor Leslie and

Linda MacRaeJohn Tighe and

Professor Jane Rigler

GIFTS UP TO $999Melanie A. AmadurePeter AmadureSteven C. and Linda F.

AndersonRhesa H. BarksdaleFrances M. CarothersDavid M. and Carrie L.

CollinsProfessor Ellen J. DanninAlyssa K. DragnichProfessor Michael L. and

Ellen ForemanDean Amy GaudionGrace M. HepfordWilliam M. and Mary

Anne Hinkson

Ann K. HofferProfessor David H. and

Nancy KayeLaura S. KentMichael A. and Kim A. KleinAnn KorsakKate M. MackenzieStephen C. and Wendy F.

MartsonDean Philip J. McConnaughay

and Janet MurphyArthur A.* and Rita MurphyLee S. McQuillenDavid M. and Darlene F.

PayneProfessor John E. Lopatka

and Dean Marie T. Reilly

Deborah C. RyersonNathan L. and Abby M.

SavitzRobert and Sarah M.

ScharadinAndrew ShubinJohn P. and Elizabeth G.

Simcox Crystal St. Omer RoyDorcas TaylorGregory ThomasAlan and Jean WeismantelJoseph YoheMichael A. and Katherine

M. YoheRobert and Joan R. Yohe

FRIENDS, FACULTY, AND STAFFThe Dickinson School of Law gratefully acknowledges the generous support of friends,

faculty, and staff who have a close bond to the School and who make a crucial difference

in the quality of its programs.



Faculty Support

Maureen B. Cavanaugh Research Professor Award Endowment

Chris Plum

Degenstein Foundation Fellowship Program for Public Interest Law

Charles B. Degenstein Foundation

Honorable W. Richard and Mary M. Eshelman Faculty Scholar Award

The Honorable W. Richard Eshelman ’47* and Mrs. Mary M. Eshelman*

Donald J. Farage Professor of LawEstate of Donald J. Farage

Harvey A. Feldman Distinguished Faculty Scholar Award

Dickinson School of Law Alumni and friends of Professor Harvey A. Feldman ’69

John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation Distinguished Professorship in Law

John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation

Gieg Faculty Support EndowmentsFred B. Gieg ’40*

Joseph H. Goldstein Faculty ScholarAward

Joseph H. Goldstein 1909*

FACULTY SUPPORT

Dean’s Chair ........................................... $5,000,000

Faculty Chair .......................................... $2,000,000

Professorship ......................................... $1,000,000

Career Development Professorship ............. $500,000

Faculty Research Award.............................. $50,000

GRADUATE STUDENT AID

Student Scholarship .................................. $50,000

OTHER ENDOWMENTS

Academic Departments ......................... $1,000,000

Academic Centers & Institutes..................... Various

Lectureship ............................................... $100,000

Program Support ........................................ $25,000

Program Award ........................................... $20,000

ENDOWMENT OPPORTUNITIESAs of June 30, 2010, The Dickinson School of Law’s endow-

ment was $38.6 million. This total is attributed to 136 individ-

ual endowments established for student scholarships, faculty

support, loan repayment assistance, awards, fellowships, and

academic programs.

Endowments provide the Law School with dependable sup-

port in perpetuity. The initial gift is invested, and a portion of

the fund’s market value (typically about 5%) is awarded annu-

ally for the purpose designated by the benefactor. This giving

opportunity allows benefactors to support their areas of inter-

est now and into the future.

Although many alumni and friends have given generously to

the Law School’s endowment, we are not generating sufficient

funds to provide essential scholarship support or to counter

the impact of rising operating expenses. The ability to rely on

endowment revenue, rather than tuition dollars, will enable us

to significantly reduce the financial burden on our students.

The University’s Board of Trustees has established mini-

mum support levels for various types of endowments to guar-

antee that income will be adequate to achieve the benefactor's

intent—now and in perpetuity. These endowments may be

named in recognition of the generosity and vision of the

donors or in honor or memory of persons of the donors’

choice.

The Dickinson School of Law currently has need for support

in the endowment categories listed at right (figures reflect cur-

rent minimum gift levels for each category). More information

on endowments and giving opportunities can be found at

http://law.psu.edu/alumni/support_the_law_school.

ENDOWMENTS BY ALUMNI, FAMILY, AND FRIENDS

* Deceased + Endowment Not Yet Activated

THE LAW SCHOOL ENDOWMENT



McQuaide Blasko Research ProfessorAward

McQuaide Blasko

Honorable G. Thomas and Anne G.Miller Chair in Advocacy

Leslie Anne Miller ’77 and Richard Worley

H. Laddie Montague ChairH. Laddie Montague Jr. ’63 and Linda P. Montague

A. Robert Noll ProfessorshipMarie Noll*

Elsie de R. and Samuel P. Orlando Distinguished Professorship in Law

Samuel P. Orlando ’24*

Nancy A. Patterson Research ProfessorAward

Nancy A. Patterson ’69

Arthur L. and Sandra S. Piccone FacultyScholar Award

Arthur L. Piccone ’58 and Sandra S. Piccone

Polisher Family Faculty Scholar AwardSamuel G. Weiss Jr. ’71

Edward N. Polisher Research ProfessorAward

Dr. Edward N. Polisher ’22*

Paul and Marjorie Price Family Endowment for Faculty Enhancementat The Dickinson School of Law

Marjorie Morgan Price and Paul H. Price ’51

Lewis H. Vovakis Distinguished FacultyScholar Award

Lewis H. Vovakis ’63*

Arthur Weiss Research Professor AwardDr. Edward N. Polisher ’22*

Fannie Weiss Research Professor AwardDr. Edward N. Polisher ’22*

Samuel Weiss Research Professor AwardDr. Edward N. Polisher ’22*

Weiss Family Research Professor AwardDr. Edward N. Polisher ’22*

Student Scholarship Support

Alumni Scholarship Endowment FundAlumni of The Dickinson School of Law

ArnelleNurickMcIntoshMarshallScholarship

H. Jesse Arnelle ’62

Zygmunt R. and Gertrude A. BialkowskiMemorial Scholarship

Gertrude A. Bialkowski

John W. Blasko Scholarship at The Dickinson School of Law

McQuaide, Blasko, Schwartz, Fleming and Faulkner, Inc.

George I. Bloom Scholarship FundEstate of George I. Bloom (Hon. ’80)

Adele and Leonard Blumberg Scholarship Program

Leonard Blumberg ’38* and Adele Blumberg

Patricia A. Butler ScholarshipBarry J. Epstein ’78 and Mr. and Mrs. Philip Butler

Carlisle Tire and Wheel CompanyScholarship

Carlisle Tire and Wheel Company

William R. Caroselli ScholarshipWilliam R. Caroselli ’66

Class of 1947 ScholarshipMembers of the Class of 1947



Honorable Mitchell H. Cohen MemorialPublic Interest Scholarship Fund

Friends and Colleagues of the late Mitchell H. Cohen ’28

J. Peter and Florence S. Davidow Scholarship

Florence S. Davidow

Honorable Fred W. Davis ScholarshipFriends of the late Honorable Fred W. Davis ’22

Louis F. Del Duca ScholarshipProfessor Louis F. Del Duca

Alexander and Syble G. Denbo ScholarshipThe Honorable Alexander Denbo ’32* and Syble G. Denbo*

Lisa A. Dinicola ScholarshipFriends and family of the late Lisa A. Dinicola ’85

Professor William H. and Mary A. DoddScholarship

Stephen M. Dodd ’74 and the Dodd Family

George F. Douglas Jr. Memorial Endowment Fund

Friends and Family of George F. Douglas Jr. ’50*

Rulison Evans Memorial ScholarshipEstate of Rulison Evans

Anthony C. and Marie C. Falvello Scholarship

Conrad A. Falvello ’74

Conrad A. and Rocco C. Falvello Scholarship and Memorial Award Fund

Families of Conrad A. Falvello ’23*and Rocco C. Falvello ’30*

Fine Family Memorial ScholarshipRoselle Fine

Robert M. and Elva F. Frey ScholarshipRobert M. Frey ’53

James G. and Joanna B. Glessner Scholarship

Hazel Glessner*

M. Fletcher Gornall and Elsie O. GornallScholarship

M. Fletcher Gornall ’50 and Elsie O. Gornall*

Christian and Mary Graf ScholarshipEstate of Mary D. Graf

Hayward Scholarship FundFriends and family of Marianne Hayward

Honorable R. Merle Heffner, Class of 1939, Scholarship

Bernice Heffner Cremer*

Walter Harrison Hitchler ScholarshipAlumni of The Dickinson School of Law

Walter Harrison Hitchler Trust ScholarshipEstate of Walter Harrison Hitchler



Shirley A. Hodge Memorial ScholarshipFriends and Family of Shirley A. Hodge

William Dewsbury Horn ScholarshipFamily, Classmates, and Friends of William Dewsbury Horn ’81*

Harry E. Kalodner Memorial FundJacob Kossman*

Lewis Katz ScholarshipLewis Katz ’66

John D. Keith Memorial ScholarshipFriends of The Dickinson School of Law

Honorable John W. Keller Scholarship The Honorable John W. Keller ’51

Leona B. and Sidney D. Kline ScholarshipSidney D. Kline Sr. ’26

Sidney D. Kline Scholarship ProgramShareholders of the Law Firm Stevens & Lee

Barbara J. and Sidney D. Kline Jr. Scholarship+

Barbara J. and Sidney D. Kline Jr.’56

Sidney D. Kline Jr. Scholarship+Joseph M. Harenza Jr.

Arthur W. Koffenberger Jr. ScholarshipFriends and Colleagues of the late Arthur W. Koffenberger ’51

Kollas Family ScholarshipWilliam C. Kollas ’59

Bernard L. Lemisch Memorial ScholarshipAdeline Lemisch

Jacob Levinson ScholarshipFriends and Family of the late Dr. Jacob Levinson ’28

Attorney Irving and Ann YanoverLottman and John A.D. McCune Scholarship

Ann Yanover Lottman* and Elizabeth N. Spaeder

Cecelia Macri ScholarshipFriends and Family of Cecelia Macri ’82*

John A. Maher ScholarshipFriends of John A. Maher (Hon. ’98)

Jack G. Mancuso Family ScholarshipJack G. Mancuso ’65

The Markowitz FundClarisse H. Markowitz*

Gary Dennis Martz ’81 Memorial Scholarship+

Joanna Martz

The Honorable James McHale ScholarshipAlumni, Family, and Friends of James McHale

John A. and Josephine A. Miernicki Memorial Scholarship Fund

John A. Miernicki ’29* and Josephine A. Miernicki

Robert A. Mills ScholarshipRobert A. Mills ’59

Jack M. Mumford Memorial HealthLaw Scholarship

Friends and Family of Jack M. Mumford ’80*

Thomas Holt Murray ScholarshipAmy E. Reno

Arthur B. Myers and Marion V. MyersScholarship Fund

Estate of Arthur B. Myers ’43 and Marion V. Myers

John E. Myers and Thomas I. MyersMemorial Scholarship

Eunice Ingham Myers

Joseph and Ann Nadel ScholarshipJoseph Nadel ’57 and Ann Nadel

James K. Nevling ScholarshipJ. Kelley Nevling Jr.

Samuel P. Orlando Memorial ScholarshipEstate of Samuel P. Orlando ’24

Rockwell O’Sheill Scholarship+ Rockwell O’Sheill ’62 and Susan M. O'Sheill*

James and Kathleen Patton ScholarshipJames L. Patton Jr. ’83 and Kathleen L. Patton

Penn State Alumni Association Scholarshipfor Penn State Alumni at The DickinsonSchool of Law

The Pennsylvania State University Alumni Association

The Honorable Albert W. Pettit III Memorial Scholarship+

Joann Elizabeth Pettit

Myron A. Pinkus ScholarshipMyron & Anita Pinkus Charitable Foundation

Edward N. Polisher Endowed Scholarshipand Award

Dr. Edward N. Polisher ’22*

Edward n. Polisher/Helen L. Weiss Endowed Scholarship

Estate of Edward N. Polisher ’22

The Honorable Gwilym A. Price Jr. Memorial Scholarship

Nancy S. Price*, Gilbert J. Golding’75 and Theresa M. Golding

Dick and Marti Ruben ScholarshipRichard C. Ruben ’78

Walter W. and Doris S. Shearer Scholarship+

Walter W. Shearer ’50* and Doris S. Shearer

The Honorable Dale F. and Mary AnnShughart Class of 1938 Scholarship

Alumni, Family, and Friends

Fred B. Sieber Scholarship FundFred B. Sieber ’51*, Deborah L. Nicklaus ’77, and H. Gregg Nicklaus ’81

THE NEED FOR SCHOLARSHIPS AT THE DICKINSON SCHOOL OF LAW

• 94% of students receive some form of financial aid

• 52% of students currently receive scholarship support

• Average size of scholarship awards: $8,450

• Average loan debt for graduating students: $112,000



Frank A. and Dorothy J. Sinon Scholarshipfor Excellence in the Study of Tax Law

Frank A. Sinon ’36*

Dr. M. Paul Smith Memorial Scholarship+James J. Heffernen ’63

Steele Family ScholarshipJ. Rodman Steele Jr. ’66 and Karen Steele

Benjamin S. Sternthal ScholarshipMadeline S. Sternthal

Paul L. Stevens Memorial FundPaul L. Stevens ’75* and Cathy Stevens

Donald C. and Dorcas Taylor ScholarshipDonald C. Taylor ’54* and Dorcas Taylor

William F. Taylor, Esq. ScholarshipYoung, Conaway Stargatt & Taylor;Family, Friends, and Colleagues ofWilliam F. Taylor ’54

Monroe E. Trout Scholarship andAward Fund

Monroe E. Trout ’64

Ruby R. Vale Memorial ScholarshipThe Vale Family and The Ruby R. Vale Foundation

Max H. Walls, Class of 1928, ScholarshipEstate of Max H. Walls ’28

Judge Donald E. Wieand ScholarshipDonald E. Wieand Jr. ’76

Judge Arlington W. Williams Scholarship Fund

Friends of The Honorable Arlington W. Williams ’27*

Judge Roy Wilkinson Jr. Scholarship

The Honorable Roy Wilkinson Jr.*

Honorable Robert J. Woodside Memorial Scholarship

Robert J. Woodside ’61*

Yelen Family ScholarshipSandor Yelen ’56

Honorable LeRoy S. Zimmerman PublicService Scholarship

LeRoy S. Zimmerman ’59

Program Support and Awards

Patricia Amadure Memorial Award(Staff Award)

Family and Friends

Thomas A. Beckley Prize for Legal WritingThomas A. Beckley ’60

M. Vashti Burr Memorial AwardWilliam V. Whittington*

Carter Prize AwardProfessor John Carroll

Dickinson School of Law General AlumniAssociation Endowment

General Alumni Association

James W. Durham Endowment in Support of the Center for Dispute Resolution

James W. Durham ’65

Gail and Hank Faulkner Excellence Fundat The Dickinson School of Law

Henry Faulkner III ’71 and Gail Faulkner ’74

The Honorable John B. Hannum FederalPractice Award

Richard P.S. Hannum ’74

Laura Davis Jones Award for Excellencein Bankruptcy Law

Young, Conaway, Stargatt & Taylor

Joseph Leyburn Kramer AwardEstate of Joseph Leyburn Kramer ’35 and gifts from his family

Peter N. Kutulakis Endowment for Support of Student Programs

Estate of Margaret A. Nielson

Robert J. and Mary Ellen Landy AwardR. Joseph Landy ’79, Debra Landy,Eileen Landy Lundquist ’82, R. Mark Lundquist ’80, Thomas and Maria Landy, Hubert X. Gilroy ’79,and Mary Gilroy

Jacob Levinson Advocacy Center Endowment

Friends and Family of the late Dr. Jacob Levinson ’28

Nancy Liu Memorial FundAlumni, Family and Friends

D. Arthur Magaziner Human ServicesAward

Family of D. Arthur Magaziner*

Joseph Parker McKeehan AwardCorpus Juris Society

Montgomery and MacRae Award forNontraditional Students

James R. Montgomery ’93 and Professor and Mrs. Leslie MacRae

I. Emanuel Meyers FundFriends of the late I. Emmanuel Meyers ’40

The Honorable Gwilym A. Price Jr. Memorial Prize

Aimee Toth ’77

SheelyLee Law Library EndowmentAlcoa, Polly Ehrgood, Abraham and Sarah Kadis Foundation

Irving Yaverbaum Accounting PrizeYaverbaum, Goldring and Gerber (Beard and Company)

“Law school is extremely difficult without the added stress of worrying about how to

pay for it. Having peace of mind with regard to my finances allows me to focus on the

task at hand, and that’s to maximize the educational experiences the Penn State Uni-

versity Dickinson School of Law has to offer. With the aid of scholarships, I was able to

lessen the economic burden of attending a study abroad program, and in turn, diversify

my legal education on an international level.”

CoreyScott Smith ’11 is a recipient of the Benjamin S. Sternthal Scholarship and the President’s MeritScholarship. He is the senior editor of the Penn State International Law Review, vice president of theSBA, and involved with many organizations, including the Student Bar Association, Outlaw, the Women’sLaw Caucus, the Black Law Students Association, and the Latino/a American Law Students Association.

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THE JOHN REED SOCIETY

The John Reed Society is The Dickinson School of Law’s most presti-

gious donor recognition program, recognizing lifetime giving—includ-

ing pledges, matching gifts, and planned gifts—of our most generous

alumni and friends. Named in honor of Judge John Reed, founder of

the Law School, the Society’s members share a commitment to ensur-

ing academic excellence and the continued success of the Law School

and to supporting present and future generations of students, faculty,

and alumni.

The 2nd Century CircleRecognizing lifetime givingof $100,000 and above

H. Jesse Arnelle ’62 Hon. Bernard Balick ’66 and Hon. Helen S.

Balick ’66 Howard C. Bare ’48*Marjory Boyd*George I. Bloom, Hon. ’80* Dr. Leonard R. Blumberg

’38*William R. Caroselli ’66

and Dusty Kirk ’79 Eugene S. Cavallucci ’72

and Rebecca R. CavallucciSarah Miller CoulsonBernice Heffner CremerHon. Fred W. Davis ’22* Charles B. DegensteinFoundation (Sidney

Apfelbaum, Jeffrey Apfelbaum ’77, and Michael Apfelbaum ’85)

Hon. Alexander Denbo ’32*and Syble G. Denbo

D. Dallas Ditty ’28*James W. Durham ’65 James R. English ’48*

and Shirley EnglishDr. Donald Farage*Dr. Edward C. First Jr. ’38*Dr. Thomas H. Ford*Dr. Robert M. Frey ’53 Fred B. Gieg Sr. ’40*Dr. Frederick J. Giorgi ’55 Hazel G. Glessner*Joseph H. Goldstein 1909*Edna C. Goldstein*M. Fletcher Gornall Jr. ’50

and Elsie O. Gornall*Mary D. Graf*Hon. John B. Hannum ’41*

Joseph M. Harenza Jr. ’71 David C. Haynes ’26* Bernice M. HeffnerJames J. Heffernen ’63

and Fay HeffernenHon. H. Joseph Hepford ’48*Walter Harrison Hitchler*Sarah M. Jones ’27* Harry A. Kalish ’28* Lewis Katz ’66 Edwin L. Klett ’62 Sidney D. Kline Sr. ’26* Sidney D. Kline Jr. ’56

and Barbara KlineWilliam C. Kollas ’59 Dr. Sidney L. Krawitz ’36*Martin G. Lane Jr. Robert P. Leiby Jr. ’54 Dr. Jacob Levinson ’28*Richard J. LevinsonAndrew L. Lewis Jr.Jack G. Mancuso ’65 Dr. Howell C. Mette ’51 Leslie Anne Miller ’77 and

Richard B. WorleyH. Laddie Montague Jr. ’63Tom P. Monteverde ’51 Joseph Nadel ’57 and

Ann Nadel*Thomas D. Nary ’28* Marie Underhill Noll*Dr. Elsie Orlando ’19*Rockwell O’Sheill ’62 Nancy A. Patterson ’69*James L. Patton Jr. ’83

and Kathleen Long PattonArthur L. Piccone ’58

and Sandra S. PicconeDr. Edward N. Polisher ’22*Dr. William A. Reiter ’27*Hon. Thomas J. Ridge ’72

and Michele RidgeFrancis F. Seidel II*

Walter W. Shearer ’50* and Doris Shearer

Fred B. Sieber ’51*Dr. Frank A. Sinon ’36* and

Dorothy James Sinon*William U. Smith ’57*J. Rodman Steele Jr. ’66

and Karen SteeleBenjamin S. Sternthal ’23*Gregory L. Sutliff ’59

and Susan SutliffDonald C. Taylor ’54*

and Dorcas TaylorGlenn E. Thomson ’35*Dr. John G. Williams ’52*Lewis H. Vovakis ’63* Sandor Yelen ’56 Hon. LeRoy S.

Zimmerman ’59

The Heritage CircleRecognizing lifetime givingof $50,000 and above

Thomas A. Beckley ’60 Zygmunt R. Bialkowski Jr.

’74 Phillips J. Butler and

Jeanne E. Butler*Ray T. Charley ’76 Frances H. Del Duca ’66

and Louis F. Del DucaHon. W. Richard Eshelman

’47* and Mary Eshelman*Barry J. Epstein ’78 Anthony C. Falvello ’53

and Marie C. FalvelloConrad A. Falvello ’74 and

Christine FalvelloDennis J. Gounley ’74 and

Martha Zatezalo ‘74Dr. Derek C. Hathaway Ann King*

Dr. Elwood F. Kirkman*Lee A. Levine ’63 Anthony J. Miernicki ’67

and Nancy MiernickiHon. G. Thomas Miller ’48 Dr. Rocco A. Ortenzio and

Nancy A. OrtenzioNathan W. Potamkin ’27*Paul H. Price ’51* and

Marjorie Dyer PriceJoseph A. Quinn ’66 Hon. Sylvia H. Rambo ’62 Richard C. Ruben ’78 Donald F. Smith Jr. ’78 Harry W. Speidel ’47 Paul L. Stevens ’75* and

Cathy D. StevensMax H. Walls ’28* Hon. Robert J. Woodside

’61*

The Founders CircleRecognizing lifetime givingof $25,000 and above

Peter J. Anderson ’75 Ralph AnglinWilliam S. Beckley ’50* Carl A. Belin Jr. ’61 Ward A. Bower ’75 Hon. Earl H. CarrollAbe Cramer ’27*H. Kay Dailey ’78 Donald G. Deibert ’68 Louise DellerStephen M. Dodd ’74 Louis M. Drazin*Hon. Thomas A. Ehrgood

’51* Girard N. Evashavik ’61 Henry Faulkner III ’74*Harvey A. Feldman ’69 Roselle Fine

* Deceased



James L. Fritz ’87 Prof. Peter G. Glenn John B. Hannum ’73 Richard P.S. Hannum ’74 Myrtle Harvey*Harry A. Horwitz ’79 Hon. Jan R. Jurden ’88 Charles F. Harenza ’84 Hon. John W. Keller ’51 Howard L. Kitzmiller ’54 Carol M. Kosik ’94 A.E. Kountz ’13* Adam B. Krafczek ’55 Joseph E. Lewis ’65* Joan Dawley Maher ’80and Dr. John A. MaherJohn P. Manbeck ’74 William E. Master ’78 John H. McKnight ’51* R. Burke McLemore ’77

and Barbara R. McLemore ’78

Dr. James R. Montgomery ’93

Dr. Arthur A. Murphy*Arthur B. Myers ’43 Roger N. Nanovic ’54 Kenneth N. Nicely ’74*Judith L. Nocito ’77 John W. Pelino ’59*Nancy S. Price*Carl Rice ’28* Prof. Jane RiglerRobert C. Royce ’67 Irwin Schneider ’55 Samuel Schreckengaust Jr.

’38*Dr. Albert A. SchwartzHon. Dale F. Shughart ’38*Dale F. Shughart Jr. ’74* Donald C. Smaltz ’61 Harry E. Smith ’51 and

Anne P. SmithGary S. Spagnola ’69 and

Susan S. Spagnola ’69 Hon. Morris M. Terrizzi ’39David E. Thomas ’30*James F. Toohey ’62 Thomas E. Weaver Sr. ’28* Dean A. Weidner ’69 Dr. Irwin WeinbergHon. Gerald Weinstein’56 Ira H. Weinstock ’65 Kurt E. Williams ’95 and

Kathryn Reese WilliamsA. Mark Winter ’76 Hon. Robert E. Woodside

’28*Charles B. Zwally ’63

The 1834 CircleAs of December 31, 2002, theminimum membership levelfor the John Reed Society wasraised from $10,000 to$25,000 (Founders Circle).Any donors who qualified forthe 1834 Circle prior to thechange in minimum membership levels continue to be recognized as Society members.

Edwin A. Abrahamsen ’76 and Mary Ann Abrahamsen ’76

Theodore A. Adler ’72 Hon. Jane M. Alexander ’54 William F. Anzalone ’77 Sidney Balick ’56 Joseph A. Barlock ’50 Daniel E.P. Bausher ’79 Edward Beck Jr. ’72 G. Thompson Bell III ’80 Marcia A. Binder ’82 Harry L. Bricker Jr. ’57 Franklin C. Brown ’49 Michael R. Bucci Jr. ’80 Mary L. Buckman ’86 Jeffrey D. Bukowski ’95 Col. Christopher F. Burne ’83Hon. William W. Caldwell

’51 Robert W. Chilton Carl F. Chronister ’38*Terrence E. Connor ’54 William R. Cooper II ’48 Henry F. Coyne ’66 W. Marshall Dawsey ’61

and Polly Moore DawseyAlfred A. Delduco ’51*Dr. Arthur DiNicolaDr. William H. Dodd ’38*John M. Eakin ’51 David R. Eshelman ’74 Edward A. Fedok ’70 Richard E. Fehling ’79 Bertha P. Feldman Michael A. Fetzner ’72 Richard G. Fine ’68 Nicholas J. Fiore ’78 Benjamin Folkman ’82 Bruce D. Frankel ’77 Michael W. Gang ’77 Michael H. Garrety ’75 and

Paula F. Garrety ’75 Prof. Gary S. Gildin and

Terri Gildin

Hubert X. Gilroy ’79 Thomas M. Golden ’72*Howard M. Goldsmith ’68

and Molly H. Goldsmith ’70

Martin Goodman ’28*Walter T. Grabowski ’78 and

Mary R. Grabowski ’78 Laurel F. Grass ’86 and

Roger GrassLuAnn Haley ’81 Mark A. Hayward Harvey H. Heilman Jr. ’48*John C. Herrold ’73 William F. Higie ’52 James L. Hollinger ’60 Hon. Herbert Horn ’32 Daniel B. Huyett ’75 Arthur Inden ’65 Hon. Robert L. Jacobs ’35*Gerald Vincent John ’69 Morgan R. Jones ’65*Leslie L. Kasten Jr. ’77 Hon. Edwin M. Kosik ’51 Jon LaFaver, Esq.Mildred Rickard Landis*R. Joseph Landy ’79 J. Richard Lauver ’63 Stephen R. Leibowitz ’77 G. Griffith Lindsay III ’79 Jesse P. Long ’35* R. Mark Lundquist ’80 and

Eileen Landy Lundquist ’82

Francis J. LutzElizabeth Dougherty

Maguschak ’83 and Mark J. Maguschak

George M. Manderbach ’48Judith MargolisDonald L. Masten ’55 Helene L. MasterDean Philip J.

McConnaughay and Janet Murphy

Mollie A. McCurdy ’79 andKevin J. McKeon ’79

William E. McDonald ’77 G. Steven McKonly ’76 Mario G. de Mendoza III ’72Robert A. Mills ’66 Hon. Carmen D. Minora ’77John J. Miravich ’89 C. Edward Mitchell ’70 Gerald K. Morrison ’68 Hon. John C. Mott ’80 and

Brenda K. Mott

Daryl F. Moyer ’79 Dr. Barry J. Nace ’69 James A. Naddeo ’67 J. Kelley Nevling Jr.Hon. Clarence C. Newcomer

’48*Edward S. Newlin ’70 and

Relda Evans NewlinJan P. Paden ’72 Kathy L. Pape ’78 and

Robert P. Trinkle ’76 James G. Park ’54*D. Grant Peacock ’66 Dr. Meyer Potamkin ’33*Leonard Rapoport ’51 Harvey B. Reeder ’73 Bissett J. Roberts ’38* Lee M. Rosenbluth ’82 Hon. Max Rosenn*Charles W. Rubendall II ’76G. Philip Rutledge ’78 William J. Schaaf ’71 Sally M. Scharadin and

Robert ScharadinCharles E. Schmidt Jr. ’74 Michael A. Setley ’85 Charles E. Shields III ’83 Peter F. Smith ’81 BG John C. SteeleHenry J. Steiner ’55 Morris L. Stoltz II ’73 Margaret A. Suender ’87and John A. Suender ’88 Chang-Kewn Suh ’85 Herbert Summerfield ’65 Lee C. Swartz ’61 Hon. David J. Tulowitzki ’76Thomas L. VanKirk ’70 Joseph J. Velitsky ’70 Jeffrey P. Waldron ’82 and

Gillian S. Waldron ’82 Martha B. Walker ’72 Nathan H. Waters Jr. ’72 Robert L. Weldon Jr. ’73and Donna Stehman

Weldon ’77 Hon. Richard B.

Wickersham ’53*Donald E. Wieand Jr. ’76 Wallace C. Worth Jr. ’53 Blandin J. Wright ’72



The Dickinson School of LawMount Nittany SocietyMembers:AnonymousThe Honorable Bernard Balick ’66 The Honorable Helen S. Balick ’66 Leonard R. Blumberg ’38 *William R. Caroselli ’66 James W. Durham ’65 Anthony C. Falvello ’53 Robert M. Frey ’53 The Honorable H. Joseph Hepford ’48 *Michael J. Hudacek Sr. ’54 Jeffrey L. Hyde ’80 Sharon D. Hyde ’82 Lewis Katz ’66 Dusty E. Kirk ’79 Sidney D. Kline Jr. ’56 Sidney D. Kline Sr. ’26 * Robert P. Leiby Jr. ’54 H. Laddie Montague Jr. ’63Gerald K. Morrison ’68

Joseph Nadel ’57 Rockwell O’Sheill ’62 Arthur L. Piccone ’58 Harry W. Speidel ’47 J. Rodman Steele Jr. ’66 Gregory L. Sutliff ’59 Glenn E. Thomson ’35 * Joseph J. Velitsky ’70 Sandor Yelen ’56 The Honorable LeRoy S. Zimmerman ’59

The Dickinson School of Law Laurel Circle Members:James W. Durham ’65 Lewis Katz ’66 H. Laddie Montague Jr. ’63

The Dickinson School of LawElm Circle Members:Lewis Katz ’66 H. Laddie Montague Jr. ’63

UNIVERSITY-WIDE GIVING SOCIETIES

In addition to the Law School’s John Reed Giving Society, Law School donors are

eligible for recognition in Penn State’s University-wide giving societies. Penn State

recognizes its most generous supporters by inviting them to become members of

giving societies that include the Mount Nittany Society, the Atherton Society, and

the President’s Club.

The Dickinson School ofLaw Atherton SocietyMembers:Zygmunt R. Bialkowski ’74Mary L. Buckman ’86 Keith A. Clark ’70 The Honorable Glen R.

Grell ’81 The Honorable John W.

Keller ’51 Sidney D. Kline Jr. ’56 Sidney D. Kline Sr. ’26 * Barbara R. McLemore ’78R. Burke McLemore Jr. ’77Robert A. Mills ’59 Joseph Nadel ’57 The Honorable Sylvia H.

Rambo ’62 J. Rodman Steele Jr. ’66 Joseph J. Velitsky ’70

Mount Nittany Society

The Mount Nittany Society recognizes those individ-

uals whose cumulative lifetime giving to The Dickinson

School of Law and/or other Penn State units has reached

or exceeded $250,000 in irrevocable commitments.

Membership in the Laurel Circle honors donors whose

cumulative gifts exceed $1 million. Membership in the

Elm Circle honors donors with cumulative giving of $5

million or more.

All new members of Mount Nittany Society, Laurel

Circle, and Elm Circle are inducted at an annual awards

ceremony, where they are presented to the University

President and the other members of the society.

The Atherton Society

Membership in the Atherton Society is offered to

all individuals who have made an estate provision for

The Dickinson School of Law or other Penn State unit,

or a planned or deferred gift commitment, regardless

of the amount. These gift commitments include:

• A bequest in a will or living trust

• Designating Penn State the beneficiary of a

retirement plan

• A charitable remainder trust

• A charitable gift annuity

• A gift of a life insurance policy

• A remainder interest gift of a home or farm



The Dickinson School of Law Golden Lion Society Members:AnonymousGary F. Ankabrandt ’78 Carl E. Alexis ’79 W. Scott Armington ’88 Greta R. Aul ’77 Robert A. Badman Jr. ’84 The Honorable Michael J.

Barrasse ’81 Alan W. Behringer ’70 Carl A. Belin Jr. ’61 Howard A. Berman ’58 Robert R. Black ’62 Leonard R. Blumberg ’38 *

John C. Bradley Jr. ’69 Charles M. Brooks Jr. ’56 H. Richard Brooks ’75 Ward A. Bower ’75 Michael R. Bucci Jr. ’80Mary L. Buckman ’86 John J. Burfete Jr. ’73 Roger A. Butters ’77 Nicholas Bybel Jr. ’84 William R. Caroselli ’66 Eugene S. Cavallucci ’72 Carl S. Chronister ’76 Julius J. Ciesielka Jr. ’61 Keith A. Clark ’70 Joseph S. Colbassani ’82

Douglas Coleman ’87 Cynthia Skibicki Collins ’79Jesse J. Cooper ’79 William R. Cooper II ’48 George E. Cornelius ’83 Patricia G. Cramer ’87 The Honorable Timothy P.

Creany ’74 Robert W. Crowe ’65 The Honorable Arthur D.

Dalessandro ’54 Joan P. Dailey ’94 Joshua A. Daub ’99 Tara Eyer Daub ’99 W. Marshall Dawsey ’61

Matthew S. DeCamp ’96 Kelly Herten Decker ’99 Donald G. Deibert ’68 Clark DeVere ’93 Stephanie Nolan Deviney ’97 Robert E. Diehl Jr. ’60 Robert J. Donaghy III ’02 Bernard J. Donohue ’79 Warner K. Depuy ’76 Albin F. Drost ’79 James W. Durham ’59 The Honorable J. Michael

Eakin ’75 Heidi F. Eakin ’85 Bruce M. Eckert ’73

Golden Lion Society

The Golden Lion Society represent a group of the

University’s most loyal supporters—alumni who have

given—in any amount—to the Law School and/or

Penn State for at least four years in a row or every

year since graduation.

The Dickinson School of LawSparks Circle Members:AnonymousWilliam R. Caroselli ’66 Eugene S. Cavallucci ’72 James W. Durham ’65 The Honorable Thomas

M. Golden ’72 *Michael J. Hudacek Sr. ’54Jeffrey L. Hyde ’80 Susan D. Hyde ’82 Dusty E. Kirk ’79 Edwin L. Klett ’62 Robert P. Leiby Jr. ’54 James L. Patton Jr. ’83 Rochelle D. Quiggle ’93 The Honorable Sylvia H.

Rambo ’62 Dale Shughart Jr. ’74 *Donald F. Smith Jr. ’78 J. Rodman Steele Jr. ’66 Gregory L. Sutliff ’59 Dean A. Weidner ’69 The Honorable LeRoy S.

Zimmerman ’59

The Dickinson School of LawHetzel Circle Members:AnonymousW. Scott Armington ’88 The Honorable Bernard

Balick ’66 The Honorable Helen S.

Balick ’66 Dr. Leonard R. Blumberg

’38 *

William R. Caroselli ’66 Eugene S. Cavallucci ’72 W. Marshall Dawsey ’61 James W. Durham ’65 Benjamin R. Farahani ’01 James L. Fritz ’87 The Honorable Thomas

M. Golden ’72 *Michael J. Hudacek Sr. ’54Jeffrey L. Hyde ’80 Sharon D. Hyde ’82 The Honorable Robert C. Jubelirer ’62 Lewis Katz ’66 Dusty E. Kirk ’79 Edwin L. Klett ’62 Robert P. Leiby Jr. ’54 H. Laddie Montague ’63 Edward S. Newlin ’70 Judith L. Nocito ’77 James L. Patton Jr. ’83 Rochelle D. Quiggle ’93 The Honorable Sylvia H.

Rambo ’62 Dale Shughart Jr. ’74 *Donald F. Smith Jr. ’78 J. Rodman Steele Jr. ’66 Gregory L. Sutliff ’59 Leonard Tintner ’59 Curtis B. Toll ’94 Joseph Velitsky ’70 Dean A. Weidner ’69 Donna Stehman Weldon ’77Robert L. Weldon ’73 The Honorable LeRoy S.

Zimmerman ’59

The President’s Club

Established in 1991, The Penn State President’s

Club recognizes individuals whose annual unrestricted

support provides critical resources for programs across

the University. To qualify for membership, you may

contribute to one or more unrestricted funds, called

“Future Funds”, across the University, including The

Dickinson School of Law’s Future Fund. Matching cor-

porate gifts to Future Funds are combined with individ-

ual or household gifts and count toward your

membership in the President’s Club.

Currently, only unrestricted gifts count towards Pres-

ident’s Club membership. However, beginning on

July 1, 2011 (the start of fiscal year 2012), any

donors who make annual gifts totaling $2,500

or more to any fund or allocation at the Law

School or Penn State will be eligible for mem-

bership in the President’s Club. Also beginning on

July 1, 2011, donors who make annual gifts totaling

$10,000 or more to any fund or allocation at the Law

School or Penn State will be eligible for membership at

the new President’s Circle level in the President’s Club.

Levels of Recognition

Edwin E. Sparks Circle .............................. $5,000

Ralph D. Hetzel Circle ............... $2,500 - $4,999

Milton S. Eisenhower Circle.......$1,500 - $2,499*

*Individuals who are 35 years of age and younger will be of-fered membership in the Eisenhower Circle. Membership isbased on the age of the younger spouse/partner.



Horace M. Ehrgood ’77 Frank V. Emerson ’03 Richard L. Erdmann ’73 David R. Eshelman ’74 Brian K. Estep ’85 Benjamin R. Farahani ’94 America Nieves-Febres ’03 J. Kitridge Fegley ’70 Jarrett J. Ferentino ’03 Michael A. Fetzner ’72 Bruce W. Ficken ’73 Jim H. Fields Jr. ’90 James R. Flandreau ’83 Scott A. Fleischauer ’80 Ryan J. Fleming ’88 Linda Rovder Fleming ’88 Alan W. Flenner ’99 Denise R. Foster ’97 Gregory B. Fraser ’76 Robert M. Frey ’53 The Honorable C.Theodore Fritsch Jr. ’76 James L. Fritz ’87 Martin A Fritz ’92 Fred B. Gieg ’40 * Scot D. Gill ’72 James J. Gillotti ’79 Harold S. Gold ’56 The Honorable Thomas M.

Golden ’72 *Jeffrey S. Gross ’91 N. Timothy Guarneschelli ’83I. Barry Guerke ’73 Carl R. Hallgren ’64 Jeffrey E. Havran ’96 The Honorable H. Joseph

Hepford ’48 *William F. Higie ’52 Thomas A. Himler Jr. ’71 Herbert W. Hoffman ’64 James L. Hollinger ’60 Darlington Hoopes Jr. ’53 Harry A. Horwitz ’79 Michael J. Hudacek Sr. ’54 The Honorable Wayne G.

Hummer Jr. ’62Hugh J. Hutchison ’70 Jeffrey L. Hyde ’80 Sharon D. Hyde ’82 Ronald D. Japha ’79 Eric L. Johnson ’02 Sarah M. Jones ’27 *George Joseph ’82 The Honorable Robert C.

Jubelirer ’62 The Honorable Jan R.

Jurden ’88 Christopher M. Kazmaier ’94 John C. Keeney ’49 Charles J. Kerstetter ’92 Angela M. Kerwin ’88 Gregory M. Kerwin ’75 Holly M. Kerwin ’79

Terrence J. Kerwin ’79 Michael W. King ’76 Dusty E. Kirk ’79 Edwin L. Klett ’62 Sidney D. Kline Jr. ’56 Sidney D. Kline Sr. ’26 *William L. Knecht ’70 Carol A. Kristoff ’80 William M. Lafferty ’89 R. Joseph Landy ’79 Gregory M. Lane ’05 J. Richard Lauver ’66 The Honorable Mary

Hannah Leavitt ’78 Robert P. Leiby Jr. ’54 Rhonda J. Levy ’80 William R. Levy ’78 G. Griffith Lindsay III ’79 Jeffrey J. Malak ’00 John B. Mancke ’69 Zachary T. H. Manzella ’98 Paul L. Marrella ’92 Donald L. Masten ’55 William H. McNees Jr. ’68 Joseph F. McNulty ’81 Alan R. Mege ’97 Jay R. Meloy ’75 Ivan Mendelsohn ’64 The Honorable Jeffrey L.

Mensch ’84Conrad J. Miller III ’86 Thomas A. Miller ’82 Thomas M. Miller ’79 Robert A. Mills ’66 The Honorable Carmen D.

Minora ’77 John J. Miravich ’89 Daniel A. Miscavige ’77 Drew A. Morris ’02 Daryl F. Moyer ’79 Roger D. Mulhollen ’53 Clarence M. Myer Jr. ’74 Edmund G. Myers ’74 Edward S. Newlin ’70 James K. Nicely ’72 Judith L. Nocito ’77 Herbert R. Nurick ’67 Oliver C. Overlander III

’97Kathy L. Pape ’78 James L. Patton Jr. ’83 Peter A. Pentz ’89 Arthur L. Piccone ’58 Mark S. Polin ’10 D. Barry Pritchard Jr. ’76Rochelle D. Quiggle ’93 The Honorable Sylvia

H. Rambo ’62 Linda J. Ramsey ’86 Michael P. Reynold ’05 John A. Roe ’51 Gareth W. Rosenau ’74 James S. Routch ’60

S. Lee Ruslander II ’70 Robert G. Sable ’64 The Honorable Charles

Saylor ’74 William J. Schaaf ’71 John W. Schmehl ’78 Irwin Schneider ’55 Daniel R. Schuckers ’73 Leonard G. Schumack ’46Mary Benefield Seiverling

’82Charles E. Shields III ’83Carl R. Shultz ’93 Pamela G. Shuman ’84 Willis A. Siegfried Jr. ’69Barbara L. Smith ’78 Donald F. Smith Jr. ’78 The Honorable Albert

J. Snite ’73 Harry W. Speidel ’47 The Honorable Howard M. Spizer ’68 David A. Sprentall ’79 Charles W. StaudenmeierJr. ’51 J. Rodman Steele Jr. ’66John M. Suender ’88 Margaret A. Suender ’87Alison Taylor ’91 The Honorable Morris

M. Terrizzi ’39 Leonard Tintner ’59 Arthur M. Toensmeier

’67 James M. Townsend Jr.

’95Stephen W. Townsend

’70

Peter L. Tracey ’89 Robert P. Trinkle ’76 The Honorable John C.

Uhler ’69 Lawrence J. Valeriano

Jr. ’87 Joseph J. Velitsky ’70 Ellen M. Viakely ’78 William E. Vinsko ’00 Frank D. Wagner ’70 Ernest R. Walker ’59 James R. Walker ’84 William G. Watson ’54 Dean A. Weidner ’69 Reid H. Weingarten ’75 Ira H. Weinstock ’65 Donna Stehman

Weldon ’77 Robert L. Weldon ’73 Caroline H. West ’85 Barbara Kosik

Whitaker ’79 Donald E. Wieand Jr. ’76David H. Williams ’75 John F. Wilson ’76 E. Filmore Williams III

’83 William F. Wolfe ’88 Frederick S. Wolfson ’67Alan F. Woolslare ’81 Sandor Yelen ’56 Shannon O. Young ’05 The Honorable LeRoy

Zimmerman ’59


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