Spring 2017

Impact

Record-Setting Reunion Giving

Classes celebrating milestone reunions were exceptionally generous in 2016. While many classes met and even exceeded their reunion class-giving goals, the Classes of 1966 and 2006 shattered records for revenue raised and participation. The Class of ’66 gave $5.7 million, the most ever raised by a 50th reunion class. The Class of ’06 raised nearly $283,000 with a 27-percent participation rate, both new records for a 10-year reunion class. In addition, 10 classmates from the Class of 2006 saw their 10th reunion as an opportunity to increase their commitment to the Law School Fund, and made gifts at the Cavaedium Society level (at least $2,500).

While the Classes of ’66 and ’06 reached new levels of reunion giving, the combined efforts of all of the classes make Reunion a success. We are grateful to all alumni who honor their classmates and Michigan Law with their generous support of the Law School Fund and other initiatives.

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Spring 2017 Cover Story

Can Detroit Schools Be Saved?

Think of everything you’ve heard about Detroit Public Schools in recent years: gym floors buckling, walls covered in toxic black mold, archaic math books scattered around the classroom floor of an abandoned school. A state bailout and restructuring plan. Teacher shortages, fraud charges against suppliers, and what The New York Times described as a “chaotic mix of charters and traditional public schools,” in which students in many charters as well as traditional public schools lag behind in testing and other metrics.

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Spring 2017 Features

A Girl, Her Wonder Dog, and a Supreme Court Ruling

Last Halloween was momentous for Brent and Stacy Fry and their 12-year-old daughter, Ehlena. While Ehlena’s peers were getting ready for trick-or-treating, the young girl and her retired service dog, Wonder, were at the U.S. Supreme Court to hear arguments in their disability-rights case Fry v. Napoleon Community Schools. 

Spring 2017 Briefs

University Bicentennial Colloquium Features Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Susanne Baer, LLM ’93

Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor of the U.S. Supreme Court, and Justice Susanne Baer, LLM ’93, of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany, headlined the first President’s Bicentennial Colloquium, “The Future University Community,” during a January visit to campus. 

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Darrow Recipient Sees Giving As a Way to Pay It Back, and Forward

For Charlotta Chung, ’11, receiving Michigan Law’s Darrow Scholarship was not just a financial boon—it also instilled in her a desire to live up to the expectations of those who had invested in her future. Now a transactional attorney in New York City, Chung makes a monthly gift to the Law School Fund as a way to repay the “life changing” investment that others made in her education and career. 
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For One Alumna, It’s All About Her Peers in Life, Work, and Giving Back

Trisha Rich has remained involved with Michigan Law as a dedicated volunteer since she graduated in 2005, even serving as co-chair of her alumni reunion committee for her five-, 10-, and 15-year milestones. “I love the education I received and the doors that Michigan Law has opened for me,” says Rich. “But the most important things I take from Ann Arbor are the dozens of important, tangible, real relationships with people I very much care about.” 
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A Lifetime of Giving Back to Michigan Law

Kent Whittaker has given to Michigan Law every year since graduating in 1960—that’s 59 years of making a difference in the Quad. His most recent gift—a $200,000 bequest to establish the Kent E. and Judith C. Whittaker Fund for Student Support—topped off decades of supporting the Law School Fund.