Winner
of the SBA's Award for "Outstanding Student Organization of the Year"
in 1998
General
Membership Meetings
Mark your calendars now for our next general
meetings, scheduled for:
Wednesday,
February 24th at 3:00 p.m. in Room #170
Thursday,
February 25th at 5:00 p.m. in Room #510
We will be talking about our upcoming Bake Sale (Tuesday, March 2nd) and
our dress drive for the Glass Slipper Project (Tuesday, March 2nd - Thursday,
March 4th). Please come to the meetings to sign-up to sit at the
tables in the Spak for the bake sale or dress drive and also to bake some
goodies for the bake sale! We will also be discussing upcoming
speaker events, so don't miss it!
WIL
Bake Sale Scheduled for Tuesday, March 2nd
Mark your calendars...the March WIL bake sale has been scheduled for
Tuesday, March 2nd from 8:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Come to the Spak to buy some delicious baked goods and help WIL raise money
for its summer fellowships! We also need volunteers to bring in baked
goods and to sit at the table throughout the day. Please come to
the February general meetings next week and/or e-mail wil@kentlaw.edu
to let us know how you can help out.
Drive
for the Glass Slipper Project
The Glass Slipper
Project was started recently by several young female attorneys who
gather donated prom dresses, bridesmail dresses and other formal dresses,
plus accessories (shoes, purses, etc.), and then distributes them to local
high school girls who lack the financial means to purchase a dress for
their prom.
If you have dresses or other accessories that you know you'll never
ever wear again, PLEASE bring them in! WIL will be holding a drive
Tuesday, March 2nd through Thursday, March 4th from 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
in the Spak. Student volunteers will also be needed to
take donations at the table during the drive - come to the February general
meetings or e-mail wil@kentlaw.edu
to sign up for a time.
WIL
Alumnae/i-Student Reception a Success!
Thank you to everyone who assisted with and attended
our reception last week at Woman Made Gallery, housed in the first floor
of the Keith Mansion in Chicago's Historic Prairie Avenue District.
It was a fantastic venue for the event - a string quartet played softly
while alums and students mixed and mingled over cocktails and hors d'ouevres
while viewing the exhibit "Conflict/Resolution" and other gallery items.
Judge Ilana Diamond Rovner, from the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals,
was especially delighted and thanked us for such a wonderful time.
Thanks especially to Beth Miller, Director of
Special Events, for suggesting the gallery and coordinating all of the
logistics of the event. Thanks also to the following student members who
volunteered to help during the reception: Joy O'Shell, Kristen McAhren,
Bethany Schols, Darcee Young, Colette Matusinec, Pam Quigley, Darby Carley,
and Michele Katz.
We are also happy to announce that we received
$555 in donations to our Fellowship Fund from various alums and friends
before and during the reception. These funds will be matched and
help fund a summer fellowship for a deserving WIL member in financial need
who will be volunteering at a public service agency over the summer.
(For details about the fellowships, please come to our February general
meetings.)
Written
a Great Outline? Please donate it to WIL!
WIL has a bank of outlines prepared by Chicago-Kent students for first-year
and upperclass classes. But in order to keep our bank current, we
need outlines donated each semester. If you've created great outlines
for any of your classes, please consider donating them to WIL. These
outlines are then available to dues-paying WIL members for future semesters.
To help save some trees, outlines will be accepted in electronic form only.
Please just e-mail WIL at wil@kentlaw.edu
with your outlines, telling us the class, the professor, the textbook(s)
used in class, the semester & year, your name, and the program in which
the outline is written (e.g. WordPerfect 7.0, Word 7). If you have
any questions about our outline bank, please
click here or e-mail Sita Balthazar-Thomas, our Secretary, at sbalthaz@kentlaw.edu.
REMINDER:Have
you paid your membership dues yet?
Please remember to pay your dues for the 1998-'99
year. A $10.00 check made payable to Women in Law can be left in
the WIL mailbox on the 2nd Floor. Payment of dues allows you to participate
in elections and mentorship programs, receive WIL outlines and discounts
on WIL merchandise, and makes you eligle for our fellowships! Dues
are used to fund programs and social events throughout the year, as well
as fellowships we give to students over the summer to help pay for expenses
when they volunteer with a public service agency. Thank you!
1998-'99
WOMEN IN LAW
EXECUTIVE
BOARD:
Charis Runnels, President
Abigail Kell, Vice President
Stephanie Benway, Vice President
Kimberly DeMarino, Treasurer |
Sita Balthazar-Thomas, Secretary
Heather Fritch, Mentorship Coordinator
Faye Hizon, 1L Day Division Rep.
Sonia Kosar, 1L Evening Division Rep. |
If you have any questions about WIL
membership, check out our webpage at http://www.kentlaw.edu/student_orgs/wil/
or e-mail us at wil@kentlaw.edu.
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