The picture is from my son's graduation day, 2008, following his commencement ceremony where I handed him his diploma: Philip M. Tatarowicz, Professor, Graduate Tax, LL.M. (Tax) 1983; son, Christopher P. Tatarowicz, Law 2008.

In August of 2013, I organized the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington. I wanted to begin the commemorative march such that the distance was not too far for the elderly marchers who had participated in the original March. Therefore, GULC was the logical place to begin. Fortunately, the Dean and his staff welcomed the idea. Coincidentally, the March was scheduled to take place on the first day of classes. (In fact, GULC made a video wherein the March and the first day of classes were mentioned by the Dean.). Early that morning, on the steps of GULC, the Dean, I, and other speakers welcomed the enthusiastic crowd. As a civil rights lawyer and graduate of GULC, I feel very blessed and fortunate that GULC understood the importance of this event to me but most importantly its significance to our nation.

Georgetown Law Weekly's Staff in 1980. Gail Grossman is in the back row center seated.

I had the privilege of interviewing Mike Wallace of CBS News' "60 Minutes" when he came to Georgetown Law to do a story on Chief Justice Warren Burger and interview former Supreme Court clerks, Professor Mike Seidman and Professor Dennis Hutchinson. Mike Wallace was kind enough to give me 50 minutes of his time for my article entitled, "50 Minutes with Mike Wallace."

This is a photo of me (Gail Grossman) playing my guitar and singing in my first year of law school in the Section 3 talent show. I am singing a parody of "What a Wonderful World This Would Be", originally sung by Sam Cooke and re-recorded by Art Garfunkel. My version of the song was: "Don't know much about Property ....... but I do know I want to pass the Bar, and if I could ever get that far, What a Wonderful World This Would Be."

We went on to be partners and win the Regionals in the Frederick Douglass Moot Court Competition. The following year we coached the Douglass team to another win in the Regionals and the Best Brief in the nation.

One of my happiest memories was being acknowledged at my 30th reunion at the Paul Dean Awards on October 15, 2011. Photo L to R: Hon. Rufus Gunn King III; Theodore Burke; Maurita Coley Flippin (me); Dean Treanor; Jules Kroll; John Podesta

I have a funny memory of being ordered to get off the elevator by Alexander Haig's security detail when he entered the elevator I was riding up to hear him speak at GULC. Being in CA, I miss all that heady DC stuff. My husband and I met just before I left for GULC and he came with me. Still together!

The attached photo is of my husband, Mark, and me at an awards dinner where I was honored by the local bar association and named "Outstanding Advocate" San Diego Consumer Attorneys.

...- professors Gordon, Wallace, and Spann were particularly memorable - and getting to know the other students in my section, a number of whom I still remain friends with all these years later. The curriculum was difficult but the rigors of the education prepared me well for a career in law. Teaching legal concepts to inmates at Lorton Prison as part of the Street Law Program was a memorable and unique experience.

Nothing in my life could mean more than my marriage to the father of my two children. Theodore Alan Feitshans and I met in GULC in the offices of the Georgetown Law Weekly. Theodore's friend Lewis Horowitz introduced us saying, "You two are made for each other!" The next time he saw us we were indeed married to each other in the Plaza Hotel in New York City. Our children Jay Levy Feitshans Esq (a lawyer now in medical school ) and Emalyn Levy Feitshans (Masters of American Studies at Columbia University) laugh when I said that in their grandmother's generation women went to college to "get an MRS", but in my generation, the MRS became a graduate degree.

Here is our wedding photo from the Plaza Hotel in New York City and the beginning of amazing adventures in the law.

Like a few others in my class, I came to Georgetown Law as a baby boomer who had gone to graduate school in humanities without realizing that few if any jobs would be available for Ph.D.'s. Like many humanities majors, I had long ago taken the LSAT. I also had worked on Capitol Hill for a year, an experienced that confirmed my interest in law. I started my law studies and thought I had died and gone to heaven. I have now been teaching law for 30 years and that sense of joy in the profession has never left me.

I was working first in the Tax Department at Arthur Andersen and then the Tax Department at Freddie Mac during the day while pursuing my Law School degree in the evening, so it was almost unfair for me to be taking those tax classes as a "professional" among true amateurs in the rest of my class.

The memorable (and amusing!) part for me was getting up at the graduation ceremony to accept the award and shaking hands with all of the GULC tax law professors who had never met me when I took their classes, so they had no idea who I was! Not much else of my law school studies was memorable since as a night student, I was just there to get my classwork done each evening and go home to bed!

When I started college, I told my father that I wanted to go to law school after getting my degree. Reflecting the time in which he lived, he said that women are only teachers and nurses and that I should prepare for one of those careers.

As it turned out, getting married just before getting my degree and starting a family interrupted any thoughts of law school. Only after my children were in college, and successfully selling a business that I had built, did my goal of law school become a reality. When I was in my mid-forties, Georgetown Law took a chance on me, telling me that a reason for accepting me was to contribute my knowledge and experiences of how the practice of law interacted with the success of a business. I still feel that I got a lot more from the teachers and my fellow students than what I gave of my accumulated knowledge.

Understanding the law and its underpinnings altered my perspective and made my life after law school quite different than it was before I began. Professor Martin Ginsburg completely changed my grasp of tax law and its nuances. My studies in constitutional law and art law were important to me as a citizen and an art consultant and collector.

I am grateful for my time at Georgetown Law School and for the impact it has had on my life.

Milestone Reunion with with friends who are now like brothers. GULC made these friendships and so many more possible.