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featureto be reassured that a Cooley degree will preparethem to pass the bar. These are sample questionsroutinely fielded by alumni at the annual Cooleyopen houses held at the Lansing, Grand Rapids,and Oakland campuses. The open houses are afavorite activity among alumni. In addition toanswering the questions of prospective studentsand their families, there is a chance to visit withfaculty and other alumni and to enjoy refreshmentson all three campuses.Alumni representation at every Cooley open houseis just one of the ways the Student RecruitmentCommittee supports the admissions program. Asa member of the Law School Admissions Council,Cooley participates in a number of regional forumsheld around the country each year. These forumsfunction in a manner similar to career fairs, but theexhibitors are law schools and the attendees areprospective students. This past year, the committeerecruited local alumni to assist staff to tell theCooley story at forums in Washington D.C.;Atlanta, Ga.; New York, N.Y.; Houston, Texas;Los Angeles, Calif.; the Bay Area, Calif.; and inwestern New York. This coming year, the StudentRecruitment Committee will once again contactalumni to participate in these events.The partnership between the StudentRecruitment Committee and the AdmissionsOffice is a vital one, according to AssistantDean of Admissions Stephanie Gregg. “Ourbeing able to introduce a prospective studentto one of our graduates gives us the chance toshow and tell. A conversation that beginsbetween a law school candidate and a practicinglawyer who graduated from Cooley LawSchool may cover what skills the lawyer usesevery day, how those skills are honed, and howCooley Law School helped prepare that personto become a member of the legal profession. Italso provides the graduate with the opportunityto inspire someone else. Prospective studentsand their parents often tell me that meetingalumni helped them make the decision tochoose Cooley Law School for their education.”This year, the Student Recruitment Committeealso looks forward to being an active partner withDean Gregg and Director of Enrollment Programsand Student Services Bill Arnold, as theAdmissions Office devises a regional recruitmentstrategy. Local alumni will be invited to supportvarious activities, including undergraduate campusvisits. The current members of this committeemeet monthly and teleconferencing and e-mailingallows participation for non-local members. Thereare 21 alumni from 17 different cities in Arizona,Colorado, Georgia, Michigan, New Jersey, NewYork, Idaho, and Indiana serving as members ofthis geographically diverse committee. Newcomersare always welcome and anyone wishing to join inthe exciting and rewarding work of recruiting newstudents for Cooley Law School can contactDirector of Alumni Relations Darryl Parsell atparselld@cooley.edu or (517) 371-5140.July 2006 Alumni MemorialGolf Outing Raised $13,000 forScholarshipSeventy-six golfers played in the 2006 AlumniMemorial Scholarship Golf Outing July 15, 2006.This was the seventh outing held at WheatfieldValley Golf Course near Williamston, Mich. Theannual gathering raises funds for the scholarshipgranted to current Cooley students each HilaryTerm.The Alumni Memorial Scholarship is awardedbased upon financial need, academic achievement,extracurricular activities, and other considerations.This year, $13,063.66 will be added to the scholarshipfund. The generosity of the golfers and holesponsors is greatly appreciated by the AlumniAssociation and Cooley’s students. Thirty-eighthole sponsors donated $200 each, and another 11sponsors donated prizes valued at $200 or more.An early fog kept the golfers cool for a while butit became quite warm at the end, so the golferswere glad to enter the air-conditioned clubhousefor the awards ceremony and lunch. The winningfoursome was comprised of Jason Bomia, H.William Stertz (Christiancy Class, 1977), andDarryl Mumford. Team captain Judge DouglasDosson (Campbell Class, 1976) was unable toattend, but the team seemed to do pretty wellwithout him.Professor Ernie Phillips, Professor Mark Dotson(Wilson Class, 1990), Fred Blackmond (ButzelClass, 1979), and Ray Purdy (Champlin Class,1987) came in second. Thomas A. Halm (CarrClass, 1984), Vincent Welicka (Pratt Class, 1988),David E. Prine (Sherwood Class, 1986), andCharles Justian (Chandler Class, 1983) were thethird-place finishers.The team with the lowest score in which all fourgolfers were Cooley graduates consisted of PeterCronk (Fead Class, 1999), Amir Mahjoory (SnowClass, 1998), Chris Brown (Flannigan Class, 1999),and George Betts (Moore Class, 1993). The groupwith the highest score was comprised of LewLangham (Blair Class, 2001), Bob Blacksher,Robert Orr, and Laura Graham (Wilson Class,2000). The team members with the highest numberof cumulative years since graduating fromCooley (and apparently the permanent winnersof this contest) were all graduates of the January1976 Cooley Class: Larry Nolan, Gary Tyler,Richard O’Neill, and Jerry Sutton.In the category of individual awards, RhondaSanders (Wilson Class, 2001) sank the longestputt. Fred Blackmond’s (Butzel Class, 1979) shotmade him the person who was closest to the pin.Current student Anthony Sorentino made thelongest men’s drive on the fairway, and CharBailey was the woman with the longest drive.The shortest drive was made by AmyPuffenberger. Unfortunately, no one won thehole-in-one contest prize, a two-year lease of a2006 Chevrolet TrailBlazer LT, although J. V.Anderton came the closest.This year’s outing also determined the winners ofthe Sixth Annual Cooley Cup. This is a traveling28 BENCHMARK TRINITY 2006