Georgetown Law Alumni Magazine - Res Ipsa Loquitur
Spring/Summer 2009 - Online Volume 1
Alumni
Development News
The following generous donors are providing support to Georgetown Law students through the Law Center’s public interest and financial aid programs:
The Vincent A. Stabile Foundation has made a $500,000 grant to establish the Toni Stabile Endowed Postgraduate Fellowship Fund for Georgetown Law graduates working for nonprofit public interest organizations; and a $200,000 grant to establish the Toni Stabile Endowed Scholarship Fund for students with demonstrated financial need and commitment to pursuing careers in public interest law.
Lynn Hiestand (F’75, L’80) has contributed a six-figure gift, part of which will continue the McClelland Summer Public Interest Fellowships for 2L students committed to public interest law and part of which will go to the Center for Transnational Legal Studies in London.
Clifford Chance has made a three-year commitment to fund the Clifford Chance International Public Interest Summer Fellowships Program. Fifteen 1L students will be named each year as Clifford Chance Fellows. The students will spend their 1L summers volunteering with internationally based public interest or government organizations. The gift from Clifford Chance highlights both the firm’s and the Law Center’s commitment to service in a global context.
Elizabeth A. Wieser (C’86, L’92) and Phil Inglima (C’84, L’88) celebrated Phil’s 20th law reunion with a gift to the Criminal Justice Clinic.
Paul Gleiberman (F’80, L’84), John Beins (L’89) and their firm, Beins, Goldberg & Gleiberman, have directed a cy pres gift of $14,700 to the Institute for Public Representation.
George W. Bilicic (L’88) has provided funding to establish the George Bilicic Endowed Scholarship Fund.
Donald deKieffer (L’71) and his wife, Nancy Kishida deKieffer, have made a gift to establish the Donald E. deKieffer Endowed Scholarship Fund.
Lee Miller (B’69, L’72) has established a second endowed scholarship, this one honoring his father-in-law, Victor P. Klein.
The Starr Foundation has made a $60,000 contribution to the C.V. Starr Endowed Scholarship Fund.
The estate of the late John Tomas (L’63) has contributed an additional $300,000 to the endowed scholarship created in his name.
Don Waite (L’59) has made an additional contribution to the James L. Waite Endowed Scholarship Fund.
An anonymous donor has established an endowed scholarship honoring the late professor Sam Dash. Alumni are encouraged to contribute to the scholarship, which will assist students who excel in professional responsibility, criminal law or human rights courses.
On September 10, 37 members of the Georgetown Law alumni community attended a fundraising dinner in support of the African American Endowed Scholarship Fund at the home of Shaun and Michael Jones (L’85). The event raised more than $100,000. The fundraising host committee consisted of Michael Jones and Leslie M. Turner (L’85), co-chairs; Sharie A. Brown (L’82); Allen Cannon III (L’87); Maurita K. Coley (L’81); Tanya D. Holcomb-Webber (L’91); Tyree P. Jones Jr. (L’86); Anthony T. Pierce (L’87); Darren C. Skinner (L’95); Leslie T. Thornton (L’83) and the Hon. Albert R. Wynn (L’77).
Robert Parks (L’63) has made a $30,000 gift to the Opportunity Scholarship program. Opportunity Scholarships are three-year awards that enhance economic diversity within the student body. The Parks Opportunity Scholarship will be awarded to a student entering in the fall of 2009.
Yvonne Burt (L’80), Brian Polovoy (L’92) and Marc Reardon (L’79, F’79) have joined the Class Partners program. Walter Dunn (L’00) has joined the Class Associates program. The programs support financial aid for the Class of 2011.
The following generous donors have made gifts and grants to support faculty, academic programs and the Edward Bennett Williams Law Library:
The newly created Georgetown State-Federal Climate Resource Center has received founding grants of $700,000 from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and $500,000 from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation for work promoting “cooperative federalism” in climate policy, sustaining state and local innovation, and supporting an enduring state-federal partnership. The center, led by Executive Director Vicki Arroyo (L’94) and Faculty Director Peter Byrne, serves as a bridge to connect state and federal policymakers as they develop an integrated national approach to solving the problem of climate change.
The law firm Howrey has made a $500,000 gift in support of the Center for Transnational Legal Studies. Ted Burke (L’86) and Robert Lighthizer (C’69, L’73) have also made gifts to CTLS.
The Ford Foundation has made a $200,000 grant to the Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellowship Program to support two fellowships. WLPPFP fellows will work with nongovernmental organizations to enhance civil society participation, work on issues concerning the rights of women living with HIV/AIDS in the U.S. and around the world, and address systemic injustices that make women more vulnerable to the disease.
The Sandra Day O’Connor Project on the State of the Judiciary has received contributions of $100,000 from Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and $100,000 from Wal-Mart Stores to address the challenges that threaten the nation’s tradition of judicial independence. The project’s “Our Courts” program has received grants of $200,000 from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation; $50,000 from the Charles Evans Hughes Memorial Foundation; and $100,000 from the Qwest Foundation for its digital learning initiative, which is creating an interactive First Amendment learning module freely accessible to any middle-school student with Internet access.
The Center on Poverty, Inequality, and Public Policy has received a $250,000 grant from Atlantic Philanthropies for general support to develop and expand its role as a bridge on issues of poverty and inequality between policy-oriented academic researchers and policymakers; and a $75,000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation for a project on expansion of the federal Earned Income Tax Credit for childless workers.
The Georgetown Environmental Law and Policy Institute has received a $100,000 grant from the Wyss Foundation to continue its work developing legal and policy arguments in defense of wildlife conservation programs faced with takings challenges. GELPI also received a $40,000 grant from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation for continuing support of its project to reconcile the use of regulatory controls and to provide economic incentives to promote private land conservation and sound resource use.
The Irene Erwin estate has bequeathed $97,000 to the Edward Bennett Williams Law Library.
PriceWaterhouseCoopers has made a grant through its “Wintercourse” program that allows students to study the European aspects of tax law; Georgetown is a participating institution.
The Enterprise Foundation has made a $25,000 grant to the Harrison Institute’s Housing and Community Development Clinic for its Entrepreneurship Training and Assistance Program that creates job opportunities in underserved D.C. neighborhoods.
The Center on National Security and the Law has received a $12,500 contribution from Lockheed Martin to develop a national security roundtable that brings together highly placed, well-informed members of the legal, political, judicial, military, academic and business communities to help deepen understanding and enhance relationships between actors in national security and related fields.
