Dennis E. Benner, Giving Back - Thomas M. Cooley Law School

Professor Swedlow HostsNovember Alum Receptionin PhiladelphiaCooley Law School Professor KathySwedlow hosted an alumni receptionin Philadelphia on Nov. 7. NineteenPennsylvania and New Jersey alumniand friends gathered at PanoramaRistorante in the Penn’s View Hotel indowntown Philadelphia.The alumni guests included AbiolaBablola (Swift Class, 2004), KevinDiMedio (Moore Class, 1993), StevenGratman (Ostrander Class, 1994),George Griffith (Needham Class,2004), Amy Karpf (Cross Class,2004), Ari Karpf (Smith Class, 2003),Dermot Kennedy (Wing Class, 1982),Chong Kim (Black Class, 1996), JoyKreutzer (Paterson Class, 2002),Therese Maloney (Swift Class, 2004),Joe Mirarchi (Blair Class, 2001), JohnOgden (Hooker Class, 1993),William Parker (Brooke Class, 1982),Matthew Razzano (Iredell Class,2001), Cassandra Rhodes (BoylesClass, 2005), Jesse Smith (CrossClass, 2004), and current studentObinna Abara.Amy Karpf said that “the Philadelphiaalumni reception with ProfessorSwedlow was great! It was very niceto catch up with old colleagues andmeet new ones. Professor Swedlowwas a great hostess - mingling andurging us to mingle around with others.Overall, it was a great evening.”As at all alumni gatherings, memoriesof faculty members were exchanged.Some of the comments were aboutProfessor Charlie Senger, that hemade property "understandable,"another said that he was "awesome"and that it was a "privilege just to bein his wake." Professor and AssociateDean John Nussbaumer received areview as a "terrific teacher." Analum commented that Professor NormFell “wouldn’t give me the answerand made me find it for myself. Itmade me mad at the time, but ittaught me a lot about being alawyer.” Professor Rich Henkeimpressed another grad, “what amemory!” Finally President and DeanDon LeDuc drew the comment “He’snow the president of the law schooland I booked his class!”LETTER FROM THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION PRESIDENTDo Justice. Love Mercy.By Diane Britt, Alumni Association PresidentAs human beings, and especially as lawyers, letthis be our resolution as the New Year unfolds.The new year is an exciting and hopeful time, full of promise.Let us also promise each other to connect as alumni of CooleyLaw School. The new committee structure in the bylaws ofthe alumni association offers many more ways to make aconnection, with other alumni, with current students, andwith the larger organization.Until the change in bylaws in 2004, a handful of alumni on the executivecommittee planned events and made many decisions for the organization.Now over 100 alumni actively take part in eight committees.OneJustice}of those committees, the Student Recruitment Committee, helps attract newstudents — and future alumni — to Cooley. Alumni members of the StudentServices Committee make contact with new students during their first few hoursat Cooley, at orientation, with gifts to welcome them.The Membership and Outreach Committee seeks out new benefits for Cooleyalumni.The Constituent Alumni Club Committee reaches out to existing alumni clubs allover the United States. We also provide opportunities for smaller, informalalumni groups to gather, to network and share their experiences in their diverseareas of expertise.The Special Events Committee plans the annual golf outing, student and alumnimixers, and other ways for alumni to interact. The Fundraising Committee andthe Past Presidents Committee also work to grow our association and to recognizeoutstanding students and alumni.Together we seek to knit together the 10,250 Cooley Alumni all over the UnitedStates, and all over the world.As president of the alumni association, I believe that we will build uponour successes, and also serve a larger purpose.To Do Justice and Love Mercy.Here’s a heads upon how to be sure you receive all of your ThomasCooley Law School e-mail about alumni events. Please check to see if our messages havebeen stopped by a spam filter. Most e-mail systems today have some sort of spam filteringenabled to reduce unsolicited advertisements. Sometimes messages you do want to receivecan get caught in the process.These systems generally have ‘whitelists’ and ‘blacklists.’ To keep messages from trustedand desired sites like Thomas M. Cooley Law School from being caught in your filter, addthe domain name to your whitelist! While ‘whitelist’ is the most commonterm used, if you don’t see whitelist on your system it may be called a ‘trusted site.’Since there are a wide variety of filtering systems out there on a wide variety of systemsand they all have their own processes, we can’t offer you the steps to add us to yourwhitelist. However, there is generally some support available in the form of a helpdesk atyour site, filtering manual link, web site, Internet provider, e-mail provider, etc.Please attend to this right away, as we will be sending you exciting information about newalumni gatherings and benefits available to alumni association members that you will notwant to miss.