Alumni weekend highlights
Alumni reconnect, celebrate, give back, reflect
Every year, in the bright, clear days of spring, the Emory Law community comes home to Gambrell Hall. This year, the Emory Law Alumni Weekend (ELAW) was as special as ever, with a full slate of events, a family focus, and a special nod to the faculty members who have built among their students and alumni relationships and trust that strengthen this institution today.
My Favorite 15, a new ELAW feature, was an opportunity for alumni to relive their student days. For 15 minutes, students got to listen to their favorite professors give their best lectures. Professors Laurie Blank, Fred Smith Jr., and John Witte Jr.demonstrated the continuum of faculty excellence.
Four attorneys were recognized during Emory Law Alumni Weekend for public service and trailblazing as well as for exceptional and distinguished careers. The annual Alumni Awards were presented to:
• Lori G. Cohen 90L, Eléonore Raoul Trailblazer Award
• Lewis “Mike” S. Eidson 71L, Distinguished Alumni Award
• John Maggio 96L, Alumni Service Award
• Donna Yip 04L, Young Alumni Award
Alumni showed up in full force for the annual reunion parties, too, this year celebrating the following classes: 1954, 1959, 1964, 1969, 1974, 1979, 1984, 1989, 1994, 1999, 2004, 2009, 2014, and 2018. A Corpus Cordis Aureum Medallion Ceremony - honoring 50-year graduates - was held for the classes of 1964 and 1969, as well as classes preceding 1964.
The highlight of the weekend, though, may have been the Family Fun Day, during which alumni - whether or not they’d registered for other events - could bring their families to campus to share in free outdoor family fun with music, games, food, drinks, a bounce house, and a community service project through which families drew pictures and wrote letters to hospitalized veterans.
The next chance to join in all of the revelry is April 17–19, 2020, for the next ELAW, and the folks in the Office of Advancement and Alumni Engagement hope you’ll save the date for next year.
For more information, visit law.emory.edu/alumni/events/elaw.html.
