[Vision2020] The Friday Leter from UI President White - Nance Ceccarelli

[Janesta Carcich]

Congratulations, Nance! I didn't know you were in law
school... Good luck to your team! Thanks for posting
this letter from week to week, Tom. *smile* It is fun
to know what is going on at the U...

Janesta

--- Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:

> Today's (February 24, 2006) Friday Letter from UI
> President White - 
> 
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> 
> University of Idaho
> Office of the President
> Moscow, Idaho 83844-3151
> Phone: 208-885-6365
> Fax: 208-885-6558
> 
> The Friday Letter
> A Newsletter for University of Idaho Alumni and
> Friends Feb. 24, 2006
> 
> Dear Friends,
> 
> This week, I'd like to highlight the very fine,
> rewarding work done by
> current and former students in the University of
> Idaho College of Law, both
> close to home and across the country. It is stories
> like these that s well
> my pride in our students and alumni, and that
> increase our sense of
> belonging to a very special, extended community of
> teaching and learning.
> 
> Law students Ritchie Eppink, Matt Sonnichsen and
> Nance Ceccarelli, recent
> graduate Matt House and faculty member Pat Costello
> have been coaching
> Orofino High School students in preparation for the
> "We the People" Mock
> Congressional Hearing Competition on the U.S.
> Constitution. In January, the
> Orofino team won the state competition. In April,
> they will fly to
> Washington, D.C., to compete nationally. It's the
> fifth year UI College of
> Law students have worked with the Orofino team. The
> law students sit as
> judges, critique student presentations, look over
> student essays, spend time
> in a question-and-answer session and serve as
> mentors. What a wonderful
> example of UI's service to youth and to community
> these law students are
> setting.
> 	
> Luke Waldron Davis earned his law degree in
> December, and just a few weeks
> ago, he was honored at the annual meeting of the New
> York State Bar
> Association's International Law and Practice
> Section. Davis wrote the
> winning entry in the national 2005 Albert S. Pergram
> Writing Competition.
> Davis' article, "Reversing the Flow: International
> Law and Chinese
> Hydropower Development on the Mekong," will be
> published in the New York
> International Law Review. He also received a cash
> award of $2,000. The paper
> was influenced by Davis' participation in the
> University of Idaho's 2005
> International Law Symposium. The 2006 Symposium is
> March 16-18 in Coeur
> d'Alene and Worley. The topic is "Indigenous Peoples
> and International Law:
> Lands, Liberties and Legacies." Again, Davis' story
> is a fine tribute to our
> law school's quality and influences, and to our
> students' own quality and
> influence.
> 
> Tim White
> President
> 
> Here's the latest news from the University of Idaho:
> 
> * Professor of glaciology Vladimir Aizen reports
> changes in glaciers in the
> world's largest and highest mountain system may have
> the most immediate
> effects on nearly half of the world's population. He
> spoke at a media
> briefing organized by the American Association for
> the Advancement of
> Science during its annual meeting in St. Louis last
> week. Aizen said changes
> in the flow of freshwater from 100,000 glaciers in
> the Central Asia Mountain
> System will affect nearly 2.5 billion people, and
> rising temperatures are
> causing dramatic changes in the world's glaciers. 
> Scientists studying ice fields in Greenland, Chile
> and Asia agreed during
> the briefing. The U.S. Department of Energy funded
> Aizen to begin
> preliminary studies of changes in snowpack in
> central Idaho's rugged Salmon
> River country. He has also conducted expeditions
> funded by the National
> Geographic Society, National Science Foundation and
> others to the Himalayas,
> Pamirs, Tibet and elsewhere in central Asia. 
> 
> * The University of Idaho Alumni Association has
> named two distinguished
> alumni to be inducted into the UI Hall of Fame this
> year.  Minoru "Min" 
> Hironaka of Moscow, is a 1952 graduate in range
> management. He is a UI
> honored professor emeritus of rangeland ecology and
> management. Hironaka has
> made significant contributions to the art and
> science of rangeland
> management as a discipline. D. John Thornton of
> Boise, is a 1970 and
> '73 graduate from the College of Law. He has
> developed a successful law,
> estate and wealth planning practice. Currently, his
> practice is limited to
> the western United States. Thornton was an active
> leader in the University
> of Idaho's successful Campaign for Idaho. The
> recipients will be honored
> during a ceremony this spring on the UI campus in
> Moscow. 
> 
> * UI alumnus and Vandal Scholarship Fund member
> Steve Kincheloe '92 earned
> recognition for a heroic rescue effort in January.
> Kincheloe, a Boise Police
> officer, and two other officers responded to a
> report of a disturbance in an
> apartment building, where they heard the sound of a
> smoke detector and
> smelled smoke. Kinchloe kicked in the door and found
> a woman sitting on the
> floor next to a burning bed with her shoulders and
> head on fire. The
> officers smothered the flames on the woman and used
> fire extinguishers to
> put out the fire. Boise Police Chief Mike Masterson
> called the actions of
> the officers "nothing short of heroic." 
> He added, that Kincheloe and the other officers
> risked their own safety to
> save others, which is the height of service and
> sacrifice to the community.
> 
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> Take care, Moscow.
> 
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
> UI '96
> 
> "The Pessimist complains about the wind, the
> Optimist expects it to change
> and the REALIST adjusts his sails." 
> - Unknown 
> 
> 
>
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