Letters to the Editor
It is my pleasure to extend appreciation on behalf of West Virginia University and the WVU Foundation for the WV Bar Foundation's most recent gift of $10,160 to the College of Law ACL Public Service Fund. A receipt is enclosed for your records.
Please know that Dean John Fisher, his colleagues and students at the College join me in expressing thanks for this gift as well as the distinguished history of annual support from the Bar Foundation. West Virginia University is very fortunate to have a State Bar that values and recognizes the role that the law school can have in supporting legal concerns and issues through public service.
Again, our thanks to the members of the Bar Foundation for their investment in the future of the West Virginia University College of Law.
Sincerely,
D. Lyn Dotson, JD
By Jodie M. Boyien
Several years ago, as Chair of the Young Lawyers Section, I wrote an article discussing the attributes of a good judge, an article of my own opinions, of course, based upon contact with the few Judges I have come in contact with over the last 13 years.
Noticeable absent from this article was Margaret Workman. I did not mention her because in my own mind, I didn't want to influence her iia a negative or positive way while I continued to have cases before her. However, now that she is no longer sitting an the bench, I would like to state the following:
Thank you.
Thank you for giving my daughter a role model to know women can achieve goals and be the first to go where no woman has gone.
Thank you for giving victims of crime a break.
Thank you for protecting our children and attempting to make sure they are not victimized by the very system which was designed to protect.
Thank you for being a spouse, parent, and lawyer/judge, and doing it all at the same time giving all persons in our profession the knowledge to know we can do it all, be proud of our accomplishment, and yes, even talk about it.
I recently was at the Supreme Court and for the first time in many years, I appeared as a litigant and Justice Workman was not on the bench. My heart was saddened to know she was gone. My heart was happy to know she had been there and continues to be so through her opinions.
Please know Justice, you are missed.
Dear Mr. Tinder:
I am writing to thank you for your very generous scholarship. I consider it a great honor to receive this award from the Bar of our State and will strive to live up to it. I hope to be an active participant in our Bar some day.
Needless to say the financial award is al so very welcome. Your support has allowed me to keep my educational loans at a very reasonable level. In particular, it has allowed me to pursue low-wage public interest work. This summer I applied exclusively for public interest scholarships and received three offers including one from NAPIL. I accepted the NAPIL fellowship and was able to spend the summer at the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty in D.C.
Thank you again for your support and your trust. I hope and intend to be worthy of this recognition in the years ahead.
Yours sincerely,
Ananyo "Tito" Basu
Wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints,-
We spend more, but have less;
We buy more, but enjoy it less.
We have bigger houses and smaller families,
More conveniences, but less time;
We have more degrees, but less sense;
More knowledge, but less judgment;
More experts, but more problems;
More medicine, but less wellness.
We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often. We've learned how to make a living, but not a life;
We've added years to life, not life to years.
We've been all the way to the moon and back,
but have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbor.
We've conquered outer space, but not inner space;
We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul;
We've split the atom, but not our prejudice.
We have higher incomes, but lower morals;
We've become long on quantity, but short on quality.
These are the times of tall men, and short character;
steep profits, and shallow relationships.
These are the times of world peace, but domestic warfare;
More leisure, but less fun;
More kinds of food, but less nutrition.
These are days of two incomes, but more divorce;
Of fancier houses, but broken homes.
It is a time when there is much in the show window and nothing in the stockroom;
A time when technology can bring this letter to you,
And a time you can choose either to make a difference...or just hit delete."