Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor:

Thank you for your recent correspondence regarding the Legal Services Corporation (LSC). I always appreciate your being in touch on this important issue.

You will be interested in knowing the Fiscal Year 2001 Appropriations Bill for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, State, the Judiciary and Related Agencies contains $330 million for the LSC. This figure is $25 million above the current year funding level and $10 million below the President's request. The spending measure has passed both the House and Senate and has been sent to President Clinton for consideration. I am advised that President Clinton originally intended to veto the bill; however, now the fate of the bill is unclear. I hope you find this information helpful.

Please do not hesitate to contact me again if I can be helpful in anyway. I want to be of all possible service.

Most sincerely,

Alan B. Mollohan

Dear Editor:

Please accept my sincerest thanks for the West Virginia Bar Foundation's efforts on behalf of Judge Kidd, which have benefitted the Judge William M. Kidd Memorial Scholarship Fund at the College of Law. It seems fitting that such a beloved public figure be memorialized so impressively. It was an honor to have been part of the portrait unveiling ceremony.

Judge Kidd's family, friends and colleagues collectively contributed the funds necessary to establish this scholarship, and it is a further testament to his memory that members of the Bar wanted to immortalize him in such a public way. Judge Kidd's scholarship allows him to continue his tradition of service to both the legal profession and the state of West Virginia. The portrait ensures that his memory will live on at the U.S. District Courthouse, and the Judge William M. Kidd Memorial Law Scholarship Fund ensures that he will not be forgotten in the state's only law school.

I speak on behalf of the many students who benefit from this scholarship, all of whom join with me in this heartfelt expression of thanks.

John W. Fisher II
Dean and Professor of Law
West Virginia University