The John
Marshall Law School Celebrates Its 100th Birthday  Behind those shades are secretaries Christine Cotter (second from left), Gwen Konigsfeld (center) and Professor Marie Monahan (second from right), joined by Professor Ralph Ruebner and secretary Yolanda Aparicio. |
 The stage decked out in a birthday cake, a few guests enjoyed dancing to the music of The Jeff Sandler Orchestra. |
 Members of the Board of Trustees of The John Marshall Law School (from left) Louis Biro, chairman, Judge Timothy Evans and Jack Pecoraro, joined Dean Robert Gilbert Johnston at the birthday festivities. Pecoraro celebrated his 50th birthday at John Marshall’s 100th birthday celebration Aug. 3. |
 Alumnus Phil Maher (left), a member of the John Marshall Alumni Association Board of Directors, is greeted by Professor Peter McGovern (center) and Adjunct Professor Samuel Lawton. Behind Lawton is William Wleklinski, associate director of the law school’s library. |
 Dean Robert Gilbert Johnston welcomes U.S. District Court Judge Blanche Manning to the 100th birthday party. Manning is a 1967 alumnus. |
 Professors William Carroll (left) and Robert Nye joined with other guests at Chicago’s Daley Plaza for The John Marshall Law School’s birthday bash Aug. 3. |
 Staff members who took time out of their busy schedules to enjoy the law school’s 100th birthday party event are (from left) William Chamberlain, director of career services; William Powers, associate dean for admissions and student affairs, and Professor Linda Crane. |
 Alumnus Jordan Peters (left), a member of the Capital Campaign Committee, chats with Associate Dean John Corkery at the law school’s birthday party in Daley Plaza. |
 Professor Corinne Morrissey offers cake to two men taking a break in Daley Plaza on Aug. 3. |
 John Marshall volunteers who served more than 3,000 mini cakes and drinks to persons in the Daley Plaza are (from left) Vanessa Matthews, Heather Williams, Chandra Barnett, Judy Evans, Maridonna Schaal, Anna McWillie, Nancy Ruberry and Joan Bahaveolos. |
Two John Marshall Students Recipients of Law Association
ScholarshipJoy E. Tolbert Nelson and Shanin T. Farmer, third-year students at The John Marshall Law School, have captured two out of three scholarships for local law students from the Black Women Lawyers Association of Greater Chicago, Inc. (BWLA).
Tolbert Nelson, awarded $1,500, and Farmer, awarded $1,000, were selected based on their academic records, extracurricular activities and career goals. BWLA’s scholarship program is designed to increase minority participation in the legal profession and to advance human and civil rights.
Tolbert Nelson received a bachelor of science degree in biology from Carlow College in 1990. Before enrolling at John Marshall, she helped inner city schools and YMCAs across the country establish environmental service projects as grant manager for the YMCA Earth Service Corps Fellowship Program.
Her passion for environmental issues has shaped her law school career. Tolbert Nelson represented The John Marshall Law School in the National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition and is president of the John Marshall Environmental Law Society. She is an active member of the Black Law Students Association, Phi Delta Phi International Legal Fraternity and is a student member of the Chicago Bar Association Environmental Law Practice Committee. She will pursue a legal career in environmental justice after graduation in June 2000. Tolbert Nelson and her husband, Carl, live in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood.
Farmer, the daughter of Ernest and Jana Farmer of Wheaton, Ill., received her bachelor of science degree in marketing from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1992. She worked as a marketing analyst for Rust-Oleum Corporation and the Quaker Oats Company before enrolling at John Marshall.
Farmer ranks eighth in her law school class and is a member of "The John Marshall Law Review." She is the John Marshall student representative to the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois and is a student member of the Chicago Inn of Court and the Chicago Bar Association. As a member of the Black Law Student Association, Farmer helped plan its spring 1999 event highlighting African-American legal educators.
Farmer, who was a judicial extern for U.S. District Court Judge Blanche Manning, will receive a J.D. degree in January 2000. She resides in Chicago’s South Loop with her husband, Aloysius Jay Reeves.
John
Marshall Student Paper Wins Second Place ABA HonorsThe "Decisive Utterance," The John Marshall Law School’s student newspaper, has won second place honors in the American Bar Association’s Student Lawyer Division law school newspaper competition for an editorial on the DuPage Seven trial.
Lance Northcutt, editor of the DU, accepted the award Aug. 6 during a dinner program at the ABA’s annual meeting in Atlanta. The first place winner in the editorial category was UCLA, and third place went to Suffolk University of Boston.
Editors of the Student Lawyer Magazine served as judges reviewing the 26 entries in the editorial category for quality of writing and persuasiveness. Decisive Utterance also was entered in the "best feature" and "overall paper" categories. It was the first time DU has entered the competition.
Northcutt, who wrote the editorial, said he selected the topic because "it interested me because I felt the media handling of the issue was inconsistent with the known facts of the case." Northcutt believes both sides – law enforcement officials as well as Rolando Cruz and his attorneys – made mistakes. At the same time, Northcutt said he had a difficult time believing police had conspired to fabricate a case against Cruz in the death of Jeanine Nicarico.
From the DeansOn July 17, he delivered a lecture entitled "Discovery: Fact and Myths" at the 1999 Forum for State Court Judges in San Francisco, sponsored by the Roscoe Pound Foundation.
Schedule of Events 
Career Services – Writing Resumes and
Cover Letters, Room 403, 12:30 and 5:00 p.m. To sign up, email Stacia at
6moffic, call the CSO at 987-1402 or stop by.
Career Services – Last day to submit
resumes for approval to the CSO, 5:00 p.m.
Friends of Meigs Field Meeting, Room 1203,
5:00 p.m.
Career Services – Resumes may be picked
up from the CSO for revision, 12:00 p.m.
Alumni Association Annual Golf Open, Oak
Brook Hills Resort and Conference Center
Career Services – OCI registration forms
and resumes due to the CSO by 5:00 p.m.
Career Services -- 2L and 3L Interviewing
Workshop, 12:30 and 5:00 p.m. To sign up, email Stacia at 6moffic, call the CSO
at 987-1402 or stop by.
Career Services – Lunch &
Conversations with Alumni – Justice Morton Zwick, 12:30 – 2:00 p.m.
Limited to 20 students. To sign up, email Stacia at 6moffic, call the CSO at
987-1402 or stop by.
Career Services – Find out how you can
work for one of America’s greatest places to work with a law degree! Hear
from a representative from the Department of Justice. Room 1200, 5:30 p.m. To
sign up, email Stacia at 6moffic, call the CSO at 987-1402 or stop by.
Career Services – Mock Interviews! Get
practice interviewing now! Rooms 406 and 407. Times: All day, Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday. Interview sign-ups are first come, first served. To
sign up, email Stacia at 6moffic, call the CSO at 987-1402 or stop by. Resumes
are due by noon, Aug. 31 to the CSO. Make the most of your mock interviews by
having your interview videotaped. Then you can meet with Bill or Stacia to talk
about what happened during the interview.