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As chair of the Law CenterAssociation, I want toexpress my appreciation toour donors for their generoussupport of the Levin Collegeof Law. These contributionsare vital to UF Law’s drive toexcellence.We need your financial support andyour involvement.Tuition at UF Law currently funds a small percentage of the cost of educating our students.In comparison with the tuition charged by the 195 law schools reporting information to theABA, our tuition is the 174th lowest. As a result, we must look to external funding sourcesto achieve our goals of maintaining and increasing quality.That’s why your support is so important. Alumni and friends are the foundation of UFLaw. Not only do you provide mentoring to our students, placement opportunities for ourgraduates and training in UF Law classrooms, you are dedicated to the financial support ofour college. UF Law donors have contributed $747,715 to the college’s Annual Fund andmore than $26 million dollars to the college’s Capital Campaign — nearly 56 percent ofour goal! Increased funding for UF Law is the key to our shared aspiration of elevating theUniversity of Florida Levin College of Law into one of the nation’s great law schools.It has been support from alumni like you that has enhanced the outstanding educationalexperience of students at UF Law. They are instructed by nationally-acclaimed facultymembers teaching in the state-of-the-art facilities, and they have free access tounsurpassed information technology. Construction on the Martin H. Levin Legal AdvocacyCenter began this summer, the completion of which will provide an enormous complementto facilities that are the finest offered by any law school in the country.You have an opportunity to see these new facilities for yourself during the UF LawCentennial Reunion April 24-26, 2009. I urge you to make plans to attend this memorableoccasion to reconnect with old friends, make new ones, visit with students and facultymembers, and to rekindle your pride of place in UF Law.I hope you will return to UF Law for its Centennial Celebration this spring. You will beimpressed. In addition, please get involved with your Law School — we need your financialsupport and your involvement.GO GATORS!Bruce H. Bokor (JD 72)Chair, University of Florida Law Center Association2007-200860 UF LAW
UF LAW CENTER ASSOCIATION, INC.2007-2008Bruce Bokor (JD 72), ChairmanPeter Zinober (JD 69), Vice ChairW.C. Gentry (JD 71), Immediate Past ChairDennis A. Calfee (JD 75), TreasurerLadd Fassett (JD 79), SecretaryActive MembersCharles W. Abbott (JD 53), Jacqueline AlleeSmith (JD 78), Cesar Alvarez (JD 72), MarkA. Avera (JD 89), Jean Bice (JD 75), BruceH. Bokor (JD 72), Leslie W. Burke (JD 68), J.Thomas Cardwell (JD 66), Lawton M. Chiles,III, Richard B. Comiter (JD 80), Charles E.Commander (JD 65), Barry R. Davidson (JD67), John A. DeVault, III (JD 67), John H. DyerJr. (JD 87), Ladd H. Fassett (JD 79), AndrewFawbush (JD 74), Michael L. Ferguson (JD 89),Betsy E. Gallagher (JD 76), Ellen Bellet Gelberg(JD 76), W. C. Gentry (JD 71), Ellen R. Gershow(JD 83), Linda R. Getzen (JD 82), Gene K.Glasser (JD 72), Robert Glennon (JD 74), K.Lawrence Gragg (JD 74), Scott G. Hawkins(JD 83), Michael Heekin (JD 78), ElizabethM. Hernandez (JD 83), Elizabeth A. Jenkins(JD 76), Kimberly L. Johnson (JD 81), Hal H.Kantor (JD 72), Frederick Wayne Leonhardt (JD74), Christine N. Markussen (JD 72), Clifton A.McClelland Jr. (JD 69), Donald Middlebrooks(JD 72), Michael D. Minton (JD 81), JamesMoody Jr. (JD 72), Brian M. O’Connell (JD 79),Lindy Paull (JD 80), S. Austin Peele (JD 63), F.Wallace Pope Jr. (JD 69), Becky A. Powhatan-Kelley (JD 76), Mark Proctor (JD 75), GeraldF. Richman (JD 64), Jesse W. Rigby (JD 77),Juliet M. Roulhac (JD 87), Oscar Sanchez (JD82), Everett J. Santos (JD 66), Ernest A. Sellers(JD 62), Lawrence E. Sellers Jr. (JD 79), LindaL. Shelley (JD 77), W. Crit Smith (JD 78), MarkA. Somerstein (JD 82), Laura J. Thacker (JD87), Marjorie Bekaert Thomas (JD 76), Frank D.Upchurch III (JD 74), John J. Upchurch IV (JD68), George A. Vaka (JD 83), William A. Weber(JD 76), Peter W. Zinober (JD 69).Ex-OfficioJ. Bernard Machen, Paul A. Robell,Robert H. Jerry II, Rahul PatelLAW ALUMNI COUNCIL EXECUTIVECOMMITTEE 2007-2008Rahul Patel (JD 97), PresidentMark Klingensmith (JD 85),Immediate Past PresidentGary L. Printy (JD 82), President-ElectCarter Andersen (JD 98), SecretaryAt Large MembersTim Cerio (JD 95), C. Randolph Coleman (JD78), Jeffrey D. Feldman (JD 81), Gregory Harrell(JD 99), Joseph C. Mellichamp III (JD 70),Matthew N. Posgay (JD 94), Cecil D. Rolle (JD03), Sarah Elizabeth Rumpf (JD 03), MistyChaves-Taylor (JD 95).I would like to thank each of you who supported our law schoolduring the ’07-’08 fiscal year. Your private contributions are directlyresponsible for our law school’s success.I am pleased to report that during this past year, our Annual Fundhad a record performance, raising $747,715. The averagecontribution from those who gave was a record high $569. This isimportant because the Annual Fund is the source of money the deanallocates to many academic and co-curricular student programswhich bring national recognition to our law school.That was the good news. The even better news is there is room forimprovement. As we have noted in prior letters, our Annual Fundparticipation rate is lower than both our peer institutions, as well asmany law schools that are perennially ranked lower than UF.The current state budget crisis is putting severe pressure on thefunding that the law school receives from the state. As a result, thereis an increasing need for our alumni to do their part in helping ourlaw school. In short, we must change the culture of our alumni givingby increasing the percentageof alumni that give back to theAnnual Fund to a level that is atleast on par with, if not higher,than those schools with whichwe compete. In order for thedean and his staff to do theirjobs, we must do ours.Your Alumni Council is working to broaden our base of alumni supportthrough appeals to classmates, and by encouraging firms with twoor more Gators to achieve 100 percent participation through theLaw Firm Giving Program. We also need more individuals and firmsto sponsor Book Awards. If you contributed to the Annual Fund lastyear, we look forward to your continued participation. If you did notcontribute to the Annual Fund last year, please consider making acontribution this year.We have a great law school, and your support and participation areneeded more now than ever before. Thank you for your involvement.Rahul Patel (JD 97)President, University of Florida Law Alumni CouncilIn order for the dean and his staffto do their jobs, we must do ours.HONOR ROLLFALL 2008 61
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