He expressed profound gratitude in having been able to follow both Charles Hamilton Houston and Thurgood Marshall as the NAACP’s General Counsel. The evening’s tribute included a short video presentation of some of the highlights of Judge Jones’ career, which he thoroughly enjoyed, and requested a copy. Of course, he will be presented with a video of the events of the entire evening. Judge Jones wife, the former Lillian Graham Hawthorne, was remembered with a bouquet of long stem American beauty red roses. Charles K. Sullivan, with his virtuoso tenor voice, saluted Judge Jones and his wife, with song.
For those of you have not heard already, the scholarship fund received a magnificent gift of $25,000.00 from the Charlotte E. Yancey Eights Charitable Trust and Trustee, C. Hope Brown, Esquire. Our Charles Hamilton Houston Scholarship writing competition participants were able to directly benefit from this generous bequest. The officers and Directors of the Washington Bar Association and the Washington Bar Association Educational Foundation are sincerely grateful to the Trust and to Attorney Brown for the magnanimous donation to its scholarship fund. Kudos to the scholarship winners: Daria Awusah, University of Maryland School of Law, First Place; Bryan Concepcion, Michigan State University School of Law, Second Place; Akhi Johnson, Third Place, Howard University Law School; Honorable Mentions: Ellen Knebel, UDC David A. Clarke School of Law, Jonathan D. Luckett, Howard University Law School and Jaymes R. Sanford, Howard University Law School.
We are indebted to all of our sponsors without whom our annual law day celebration and dinner would not have been possible. Our Medallion sponsor, the Charlotte E. Yancey Eighths Trust and Trustee C. Hope Brown, Esquire; our platinum sponsor, Dickstein and Shapiro, LLC; our gold sponsors, PEPCO Holdings, Covington & Burling, Reed Smith, LLP, United Parcel Service (UPS), and Attorney John McDaniel.
I assumed my presidency with a tribute to Charles Hamilton Houston, and thus, it is only fitting that this bar year close in that same fashion. During the annual meeting to be held on June 10, 2011, the WBA will present “An Evening with Charles Hamilton Houston, Jr.,” the only son of Charles Hamilton Houston, Sr. and a presentation by Professor Jose’ Felipe Anderson, author of the forthcoming book, Genius for Justice: Charles Hamilton Houston and the Reform of American Law. Professor Anderson’s biography was sanctioned by the family. (Cont’d on Page 2.) |
