TWO THOUSAND TWO MSU-DCL President Clifton Haley, ’61, left, and Dean Terence Blackburn, right, preside over the college’s commencement exercises in June. Graduate Raquel Alexander receives her hood from professors Kathy Payne and Alvin Storrs. Matthew A. Friedman accepts the Honorable George N. Bashara, Jr. Distinguished Alumni Award on behalf of his father, the Honorable Bernard A. Friedman, ’68. Presenting the award is Annette Jurkiewicz Berry, ’88, 2001-02 alumni association president. Geoffrey N. Fieger, ’79, benefactor of the college’s Geoffrey Fieger Trial Practice Institute, poses with scholarship recipients Jon Owens and Sean McNally. Commencement keynote speaker Geoffrey Fieger addresses a full house at the Wharton Center for the Performing Arts on the campus of Michigan State University. Following tradition, a bagpiper leads faculty and graduating students past the Law College Building to commencement exercises. Professor Clark Johnson, recipient of an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree, poses with his family. Students at Vytautus Magnus University (VMU) in Kaunas, Lithuania, gather following their own ceremony where they received certificates for completing a joint MSU-DCL/VMU program in transnational law. Fifty-year class members gather with their guests. Back, left to right, are Myzell Sowell, Jr., Myzell Sowell, James Coss, Fred Checkaway, John Cote, Harry Gregg, Anthony Rosati, George Karbal and Professor Emeritus Harold Norris. Front, left to right, are Robin Sowell, Margaret Coss, Nicole Checkaway, Virginia Checkaway, Elaine Rosati, ’87, and Dorothy Jones.