GIVE THE GIFT OF IU
A: Momentum keeps an institution moving forward toward even greater achievements. We are well-positioned to capitalize on our history of educating
outstanding lawyers, judges, executives, policy-makers, and leaders throughout Indiana and across the nation. We are on the threshold of a whole new level of excellence as a law school. To achieve this excellence and realize the true potential of this great educational resource, however, we need to continue to pursue substantial philanthropic support. We hope that the level of generosity and commitment that has already been displayed by so many will inspire others to join with them in supporting the school. With the ongoing support of alumni and friends, our future will be even brighter and I’m confident we can seize the opportunities that our recent momentum has presented us.
n August 22, 2011, the law school, together with Mike Miller, John Muller and Tilden Mendelson, founding partners of Montross, Miller, Muller, Mendelson & Kennedy, LLP, announced the establishment of the Timothy J. Kennedy Memorial Moot Court fund.
The endowed fund was created with a $50,000 gift to the school to honor Kennedy’s contributions to the practice of law and in support of the newly-created National
Professional Responsibility Moot Court Competition, which will be organized and hosted by the school for the first time on March 9 -10, 2012.
Dean Gary R. Roberts says, “We are very proud that Montross, Miller, Muller, Mendelson & Kennedy has decided to continue Mr. Kennedy’s legacy by supporting the law school’s first national moot court competition, on professional responsibility, in Kennedy’s name. ‘Here we advocate with integrity’ is not just a slogan at our school. It is a cornerstone of our mission to produce ethical members of the legal profession. This gift will
O further that cause for many years to come. And because
this competition is a national event, the impact will reach very far.”
Mike Miller, ‘75, said of the late Tim Kennedy, “Tim was not only our partner for more than 30 years, but was a colleague and friend.”
“Tim was an active volunteer in moot court and trial advocacy programs at the Iaw school,” said John Muller.
“for over twenty years Tim chaired one of the Indianapolis Bar Association’s grievance committees, quietly working to preserve the integrity of the legal profession. We could not think of a better way to honor Tim than with a gift which will support a national moot court competition involving cutting edge professional responsibility concerns,” added Tilden Mendelson.
Kennedy, ‘83, was a founding partner of the firm and practiced in the areas of medical malpractice and personal injury. He also found time to give back to law students and fellow lawyers by volunteering at the law school.
Timothy J. Kennedy Memorial Moot Court
Fund Established at the Law School
Above: John Muller, Dean Gary R. Roberts, Mike Miller, and Tilden Mendelson.
Dean’s ReportDuring the 2010-2011 fiscal year, law school faculty and staff collectively contributed more than $152,000 to the school. That amount represents an increase of nearly 50% above the 2009-2010 fiscal year. There was also an increase in participation from 50% to 52%.
“The tremendous support of the faculty and staff
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reflects the strong dedication and commitment of those who work every day to achieve our school’s mission in teaching, research and service,” said Mark Wunder, the school’s assistant dean for development. “To have such a high level of philanthropic support says a lot about the excellence of the law school,” he added.
is grandfather was a judge who embarked on his career by riding a donkey for several days
on the journey from his home in western Greece to Athens university School of Law. Professor Nicholas Georgakopoulos recently chose to honor that family legacy with a $50,000 gift commitment to the law school for an endowed scholarship in memory of his late father, Prof. Dr.
Leonidas Georgakopoulos, who also graduated from Athens university School of Law, studied abroad and worked as a corporate and commercial attorney in Athens.
Georgakopoulos says it’s difficult to say whether it was nature or nurture that prompted him to pursue law. A third
generation graduate of Athens university School of Law, he went on to study law and finance at Harvard, and taught at the university of Connecticut School of Law before coming to Indianapolis.
Georgakopoulos teaches and writes extensively on business associations, mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcy law and securities regulation.
He wanted to honor his father’s influence on his life, but wanted “more than his name on a plaque,” Georgakopoulos says. “It is deeply touching to see him, who tried to make the world a better place through law, being honored at the law school, an institution dedicated to improving our legal system.”
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By Alicia Dean Carlson
Dean’s ReportGerald L. Bepko Lawrence A. Jegen, III o honor two men who have made tremendous
contributions to the Indiana university Robert H.
McKinney School of Law and the community, the law school has established the Gerald L. Bepko Chair in Law and the Lawrence A. Jegen, III Chair in Tax Law.
Chancellor Bepko joined the faculty at the law school in 1972, becoming dean in 1981. He was appointed Chancellor of IuPuI in 1986, and the university went through a considerable period of academic and physical growth during his leadership. He led efforts to establish IuPuI as an important component of central Indiana’s research corridor and make it a major urban campus.
Enrollment grew by 25 percent, external support for faculty initiatives grew to over $200 million in 2001-02, and construction occurred on more than 20 buildings.
Chancellor Bepko led the first six years of the seven-year fundraising “Campaign for IuPuI,” which generated more than $1 billion for the campus before it concluded in 2004.
His appointments as an executive of Indiana university culminated in his serving as interim president in 2002- 2003. He then served as the first Director of the Randall L. Tobias Center for Leadership Excellence based at IuPuI, and currently teaches courses in leadership and law and in commercial law at the law school. He is IuPuI Chancellor Emeritus, Iu Trustee professor, and professor of law. He also is a member of the American Law Institute, a life member of the National Conference of Commissioners on uniform State Laws, a member of the American Bar Association, and is a life fellow of the American Bar foundation.
The Gerald L. Bepko Chair in Law will provide valuable resources to attract a professor of national stature and support the academic initiatives of the holder.
Professor Jegen began his academic career in the Maennerchor building in 1962. In 1982, the Iu trustees named him the Thomas f. Sheehan Professor of Tax Law and Policy, a title he continues to hold. He is a member of the faculty of Philanthropic Studies at the Indiana
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university Center on Philanthropy; Internal Tax Counsel to Indiana university; a representative of Indiana university to the National Association of College and university Attorneys; and a co-founder and co-director of the Annual Tax Institute for Colleges and universities.
Since he joined the faculty, Professor Jegen has taught in the areas of federal and state taxation; business and estate planning; philanthropy; and civil and criminal law.
He has been a visiting professor at other law schools, has given lectures at professional institutes to lawyers, accountants, representatives of Congress, to various divisions of the Internal Revenue Service, and to the Indiana Department of State Revenue.
Twice he has received the Thomas Hart Benton Mural Medallion, the highest award granted by Indiana university.
Professor Jegen also has received the Presidents Circle Commemorative Medallion for exceptional support of Indiana university; Indiana university’s President’s Distinguished Teaching Award; Indiana university’s Teaching Excellence Recognition Award; Indiana
university’s Most Outstanding Law Professor Award (the Black Cane Award) six times; Indiana university School of Law Distinguished Alumni Award; four Special Indiana
Law School to Establish Bepko and Jegen Chairs
Dean’s Reportuniversity Law School Alumni Awards; and the Indiana university Trustees Teaching Award.
The Lawrence A. Jegen, III Chair in Tax Law will enable the law school to attract a senior academic with a national reputation in tax law. The endowed chair also will fund this individual’s research and teaching activities.
While substantial progress has been made toward the minimums of $1.5 million needed to endow each of these chairs, additional gift commitments are needed to reach
Several alumni and friends have already made pledges to the Gerald L. Bepko Chair in Law and to the Lawrence A. Jegen, III Chair in Tax Law. A portion of Robert H.
McKinney’s $24 million gift to the law school will provide substantial support for these chairs. In addition, here are a few inspiring stories of others who have chosen to support the Bepko and Jegen Chairs. These gifts are all part of the IMPACT Campaign.
• Adam Arceneaux, ‘93, and his wife Margaret, have pledged $25,000 to the Bepko Chair. Arceneaux is pleased to be concentrating his gift on “the people and the programs,” he said. “I want us to be a destination school for top legal academic talent.”
Arceneaux is a litigation partner at Ice Miller and joined the firm in 1993 after graduating summa cum laude from the law school. He serves on the school’s IMPACT Campaign Committee, is a past president of the school’s Alumni Association Board of Directors, has served as a Class Agent, serves as fundraising chair for the law school at his law firm, and is the firm’s liaison for the James V.
Donadio Scholarship.
• Paul and Lana M. Kruse, both ‘81, have also made a $25,000 pledge to the Bepko Chair in honor of all Chancellor Bepko has done for the law school and IUPUI. Gerald L. Bepko, IUPUI Chancellor Emeritus, IU Trustee Professor, and Professor of Law, was a law professor when Paul and Lana Kruse were students, and later served as dean of the school. “He was loved by the IUPUI student body, particularly the law students,” Paul Kruse said. “A chair to support elevating the reputation
Alumni Support Faculty Chairs for Bepko and Jegen
of the law school’s faculty is a fitting tribute to all Chancellor Bepko has done.”
Paul Kruse graduated cum laude from the law school and has been a partner at Parr Richey Obremskey Frandsen &
Patterson in Lebanon since 1984. Lana Kruse graduated with a joint degree in law and business (JD/MBA) and worked at PSI Energy. Paul serves on the law school’s Alumni Association Board of Directors and as a Class Agent.
• Stephen A. Stitle, ‘70, and his wife Elaine, made a $25,000 pledge to the Jegen Chair in recognition of Professor Jegen’s excellence as an educator. Virtually every student who took his classes has a “Professor Jegen story” from their law school days, Stitle noted. He was a student of Professor Jegen’s, and remembers his former professor as being “caring and compassionate about the development of his students.
He really wanted us to learn.”
Professor Jegen is more than a great educator in Stitle’s estimation. “He’s as much a part of the fabric of the law school as any one individual has been in the last 50 years,”
he said. Donating to the Jegen Chair is a way of honoring Professor Jegen for all he has done for the law school—and all he has meant to the law school—for many years.
Stitle graduated cum laude from the law school and is chairman of PNC Bank, Indiana. He previously served as president of National City’s Bank in Indiana and executive vice president of National City Corporation.
Prior to joining National City, he served in a variety of executive positions for Eli Lilly and Company for nearly 25 years. Stitle has served on the law school’s Board of Visitors for many years and serves on the school’s IMPACT Campaign Committee.
the funding goals. Alumni and friends of the law school who have known Chancellor Bepko and Professor Jegen, and whose lives have been impacted by their leadership, teaching, and service, are encouraged to donate to the funds. for additional information on joining with others who have generously supported these funds to honor Chancellor Bepko and Professor Jegen, contact Assistant Dean for Development, Mark Wunder, at 317-274-8147 or [email protected].
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