Graduation Day!

Allison Ridder received two degrees from Duke, her J.D. and her Masters in Environmental Science and Policy.  

After a year or two of policy work, she's returned to NYC so that she could join her classmates in experiencing the exhaustion of biglaw.  

Dad Rob Ridder still drops me a line now and then to keep me updated, and I always look forward to his call.  

   

 Hassan Parrish won the "Most Memorable Phone Call" award the day he was admitted to Vermont Law School.  He was so shocked he was tongue-tied!  I hope Harold (his dad) was as proud of Hassan at graduation as he was when his son began law school.


Dean of Admissions Dennis Shields took a moment out of a busy night to pose for us with the entire Kwak family --
Uncle Kwanjin, Oma, Sam, Apa, and Maria.  
(Oma and Apa are Mom and Dad in Korean.)  

Sometimes the mother of the grad is even happier than the graduate himself!  

 

I have to confess that I'm really as schmaltzy in real life as I appear on these web pages.  I love the graduation invitations. I cry at the processions, toast the grads, the parents, the spouses and children.  I know that law school is grueling for the affluent, Herculean for the less privileged.  

 To these and all the other graduates,

Congratulations!  

     Monica Cloud was last seen representing Washburn at one of the Law Forums.  I must admit that she's one of the few people I've seen who looks good after three years of law school!

Martin Broadway was one of my
many great students back when
I was in North Carolina.  He
worked a few years after college,
before going off to law school.
 It's great to see that he's starting
a new career.

2005 Update:  Martin emailed me:

"I haven't visited your site in a while, but I
see it has grown. I am really impressed. As you know, I graduated law school last May from NC Central and just passed the North Carolina Bar! I couldn't have done it without you!"

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