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Lung honored as UC Clermont ‘Distinguished Alumnus’
SpliceNet President James Gast, UC Clermont Associate Professor Page Beetem and SpliceNet Vice President David Myers sporting Google Glass technology. PROVIDED
UC Clermont paralegal students tap into Google Glass technology through SpliceNet donation “Curiouser and curiouser” – taken from “Through the Looking-Glass” novel published in 1871, seems a fitting quote today for Google Glass. UC Clermont’s Paralegal Technology Program has teamed up with SpliceNet – a longstanding Cincinnati based leader in legal technology consulting – in a research project to explore uses for Google Glass by the legal community. Google Glass is a wearable computer with an optical headmounted display. Google Glass displays information in a smartphone-like hands-free format. “UC Clermont’s Paralegal Technology Program is committed to teaching students job ready skills for the law office. This involves not only procedural and substantive law, but also technology,” said Page Beetem, associate professor of legal studies. When looking into the Google Glass Explorer Program, Beetem realized the untapped potential of such technology in the legal field. So she set out to get a pair of the Glasses and get her paralegal students real life experience with them. In comes SpliceNet, owned by UC alums David Myers and James Gast. SpliceNet has long been a supporter of the UC Cler-
mont Paralegal Program. SpliceNet helped sponsor the purchase of a pair of Google Glasses. As part of the research project, UC Clermont students will have the opportunity to use Google Glasses and develop ways that the Glasses can be used to the benefit of the legal community. SpliceNet will have the benefit of those ideas to share with their customers. SpliceNet customers will also be able to use the Google Glass themselves to explore how they might use them. How will the glasses be used? “The opportunities are endless. Imagine live streaming video to your expert in California, while you depose the opposing expert in Cincinnati. Your expert has a first person point of view, and can feed you questions. It is like having your expert there, without the expense” said Beetem, who has 15 years legal experience. “With Glass, personal injury attorneys will be able to give jurors a firsthand perspective of the daily struggles that their injured clients go through.” As Google Glass becomes more socially acceptable they have amazing trial implications as well from jury selection to presentation of evidence. Students will be working
with SpliceNet to share innovative ideas to be shared with the legal community. “Google Glass has the potential to change certain aspects of the practice of law. We’re excited to see the innovative ways UC students and our customers use them. We think the potential is so strong that SpliceNet invested in an additional two pair of Google Glass for a round table forum and Loaner program” said Gast, president of SpliceNet Inc. and legal tech guru. Myers, vice president of SpliceNet Inc., attorney, legal tech and cloud expert, said creative thoughts are already coming quickly. These UC Clermont students are the future of the legal profession. Armed with technology like Google Glass, and a healthy dose of imagination, they will create a sea change in the field. I am extremely excited to collaborate with this cutting-edge program.” To learn more about the project or to be involved in the Google Glass Round Table, contact Gast at jgast@splice.net or 513252-0212. To know more about the UC Clermont College Legal Studies program, contact Page Beetem at page.beetem@uc.edu or visit www.ucclermont.edu.
UC Clermont College honored Ruth Lung as the 2014 Distinguished Alumnus at the college’s Commencement Celebration. The Distinguished Alumnus Award is bestowed upon an individual who has distinguished themselves through significant professional accomplishment, made contributions to their community and attended UC Clermont College for at least one year. “UC Clermont uniquely provided me a flexible learning environment. I believe that my start here was the foundation for the rest of my career,” Lung said. “My belief in the importance of having a strong community has motivated me to stay actively involved in the leadership of numerous civic and nonprofit programs in the community. My life has been enriched by the friendships and accomplishments made by our neighbors as we collectively work to better our hometowns, our communities, our world,” she added. Lung earned her associates degree in 1991 from UC Clermont and her bachelor’s degree in marketing from the University of Cincinnati’s Evening College in 1996. Lung is the marketing relationship manager for Siemens PLM Software, where she heads up developing and facilitating strategic marketing partnerships with sport's most successful motorsports teams including NASCAR's Hendrick Motorsports, Joe Gibbs Racing, Roush Fenway Racing, Chip Ganassi Racing, IndyCar Racing, Andretti Autosport and IMSA TUDOR United SportsCar Series, Wayne Taylor Racing. While these organizations bring their own unique assets to the race track weekly, they each possess a high degree of professionalism depending on discipline, a strong work ethic, integrity, and teamwork to maintain their winning traditions. A lifelong local resident, she was raised in a farming family, where she learned the importance of teamwork and
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Ruth Lung is this year's UC Clermont College Distinguished Alumnus. THANKS TO MAE HANNA
discipline at an early age. Having to juggle family and work while earning her college degrees over ten and a half years – she learned the value of perseverance. “Not only is Ruth a distinguished Clermont College alum but she continuously demonstrates her passion for the local community where she was raised. Today we salute her accomplishments, ” Dean Gregory S. Sojka said. Tom Rocklin, her Siemens colleague, stated in his nomination of Lung – “she has often stated her career and community involvement would not have been possible without getting her start at Clermont College.” Some of Lung’s community involvement includes: President, Williamsburg High School Alumni Association, co-chaired passage of Williamsburg School Levy Renewal 2009 & 2013, Committee Member, Operation Restoration, Board of Directors, Community Savings Bank, Bethel, received Clermont County Chamber Salute to Leaders Award winner, Committee Member, Williamsburg Gala Fundraiser Events, Selection Committee Member Williamsburg High School Academic Hall of Fame, Member Williamsburg High School Business Person Advisory Group and Clermont Mercy Hospital Adopt-a-Family/St. Nick Programs.
Deborah Flamm's eighth-grade class at St. Bernadette School visits the 1960s as students transform into character, singing and delivering historical speeches. From left: Kylie Couch (Betty Friedan), Ryan Sawyer (John F. Kennedy), Brian Roesel (Elvis Presley), Leah Sparks (Shirley Chisholm), Haley Baker (Eleanor Roosevelt) and Andrea Rumple (Patsy Cline). Not pictured, Abby Baurichter (Rachel Carson). THANKS TO ANGIE TUCKER
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