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Monday Morning Message 9.18.2017
“Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Standing in the hall of fame…. Cause you burn with the brightest flame.” - See this video: "Hall of Fame", The Script
Monday Morning Message 9.11.2017
“The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.” -Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
“You can train your mind to not only handle the unease that comes from having to consistently act without having all the answers, but embrace and invite it as a signpost that what you’re doing matters….learn how to dance with the unknown.” - Jonathan Fields, Uncertainty
16 years ago today, at 8:46 a.m., our world changed in an instant. It was one of the saddest, darkest, most horrific days in history.
Monday Morning Message 9.5.2017
“The dignity of labor depends not on what you do, but how you do it.” -Edwin Osgood Grover
Yesterday was Labor Day and we tend to think about labor as work. But it’s also about how you do your work.
We live in a world where, for most of us, helping our fellow citizens in a time of need is a labor of love. This past week, we saw the worst of mother nature and the best of human nature. In the wake of Hurricane Harvey, as the water rose, people throughout the world rose to help their fellow citizens in a time of need.
Monday Morning Message 8.28.2017
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.” – President John Quincy Adams
In my welcoming remarks to our first-year class, I asked them to dedicate their first year at C|M|LAW to three special women who recently passed away:
Monday Morning Message 8.21.2017
“The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.” Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night….The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.” – Victor Hugo
This past week we welcomed the light of our first-year class and today we welcome the light of all our students - amidst the darkness of Charlottesville.
Monday Morning Message 8.14.2017
“Come to the edge” he said. They said, “We are afraid.“ “Come to the edge,” he said. They came. He pushed them…and they flew.” – Guillaume Apollinaire
“Study while others are sleeping, decide while others are delaying, prepare while others are daydreaming, begin while others are procrastinating, work while others are wishing, persist while others are quitting” - Anonymous
We are excited that our first year class (C|M|LAW Class of 2020) will be arriving tomorrow for orientation. Below are excerpts from my welcome message.
Monday Morning Message 8.7.2017
Every year on my birthday (and many days in between), I have a chocolate milkshake, my favorite guilty pleasure since childhood. This year, my birthday milkshake takes on a new meaning.
On Friday, July 28, 2017, Emily Pomeranz ‘95 passed away after a long battle against cancer. Born in Cleveland, Emily grew up in Cleveland Heights. After graduating from Laurel School and Kenyon College, she earned her law degree at C|M|Law in 1995. She worked for many years as an attorney for the Board of Veterans Appeals in Washington, D.C., and as recently as last year, she was a donor to our Annual Fund.
Monday Morning Message 7.31.2017
“ I have been a door-opener, because some Americans did not believe fundamentally in the respect of the individual as our Constitution enunciates.” – Judge Jean Murrell Capers ’45
Cleveland Law School, the predecessor to Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, was the first law school in Ohio to admit women and celebrated Elizabeth Williams as its first female graduate in 1908. Ever since, we have been a “door-opener” law school not only for women but also for many women and men who have broken gender, race, ethnic, and generational barriers to achieve great success.
Monday Morning Message 7.24.2017
The Ohio Bar Exam is this week - July 25-27 in Columbus. Since 1738 when Delaware created the first bar exam, law graduates have gone through this rite of passage. Our graduates have worked very hard to get this far. I want them to know that we believe in them…… so with apologies to Reinhold Niebuhr, author of the Serenity Prayer, I’ve taken the liberty of writing the following:
Serenity Prayer for C|M|LAW Bar Takers
Monday Morning Message 7.17.2017
Pursuing your dreams is living a few years of your life like most people won’t, so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people can’t.” – Anonymous