2006
Class Agents Joey Fugelo insaniac83@aol.com Sarah Roberts sar777@aol.com Katherine Siegmann ksiegmann@gmail.com Jeffrey Torchon jazzjeff88@gmail.com
May It Please the Court
Jeffrey Torchon graduated from Temple University in May 2011 with a bachelor’s degree in music education, jazz piano. He is teaching music at Germantown Friends. He plans to continue the development of his Cuban ensemble, Conjunto Philadelphia, performing around the tri-state area. More information at www.torchonmusic.com. Allison Watkins is working at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City after graduating magna cum laude from the University of Richmond. Michael Weick accepted a position as linebacker coach at Susquehanna University. He is now one step closer to his ultimate goal of returning to Penn Charter as head football coach one day.
Jason Harrow making a winning argument at Harvard’s 100th Annual Ames Moot Court Competition.
Jason Harrow OPC ’02, a chemistry whiz at Penn Charter, went to Princeton intending to be a physician. So it was a surprise to some of his teachers to hear that he was arguing a case last spring before the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston. Although he took the MCAT exams, Harrow decided after graduating from college to take a job with SCOTUSblog, a website with news about the U.S. Supreme Court. He worked with the website for two years and decided his passion was not medicine but law. “I had put a lot of time into organic chemistry,” Harrow told the Harvard Gazette, “but it became clear that I liked doing this more.” In April, weeks before his graduation from Harvard Law School, Harrow appeared as a lead lawyer in an illegal downloading and sharing lawsuit brought by the Recording Industry Association of America. Harrow faced off against the industry in defense of Joel Tenenbaum, a Boston University student sued in 2007 for sharing 30 songs. A jury found Tenenbaum liable for $675,000, but
that award was subsequently reduced to $67,500 by a judge who ruled the original fine unconstitutionally harsh. Industry lawyers argued that the judge who reduced the fine did not have the power to reduce the award. Before a packed house in Boston, Harrow thanked the court for permission to present – the appearance of a law student is highly unusual and was approved by the court – and argued that Congress did not intend to punish individual consumers when it passed a digital copyright law in 1998. In September, the appeals court reinstated the fine and remanded the case to the trial court where the award can be considered again. Although the court of appeals’ decision mostly concerned the proper procedure for reducing large awards, the appeals court judges commented “that this case raises concerns about application of the Copyright Act which Congress may wish to examine.” Harrow, one of the winners of Harvard’s 100th Annual Ames Moot Court Competition, graduated in May and is currently clerking for a federal judge on the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. Listen to his appeals court appearance at http://www.ca1.uscourts.gov/files/ audio/10-1883.mp3.
2007
Class Agents Billy Goldman weg211@lehigh.edu Audra Hugo audro.hugo@gmail.com Anne McKenna anniemck515@comcast.net Eric Muller ebm28@drexel.edu
2008
Class Agents Katie Corelli kcorelli@stanford.edu Ryan Goldman ryg@sas.upenn.edu Kyle Maurer kmaurer3@jhu.edu Sierra Tishgart s-tishgart@u.northwestern.edu Evan R. Gagne married Hali Michele Stokes, a Nashville native, on July 2, 2011. They had a small family wedding ceremony at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Chestnut Hill, and a reception at the Philadelphia Cricket Club. Hali graduated from Emory University in May 2011, and Evan will graduate from Emory University in December 2011.
2009
Class Agents Alexandra M. Glassman amg296@cornell.edu Curtiss R. Jones Jr. crj213@lehigh.edu Laura A. Kurash chargefan5@comcast.net Sam H. Lerner sam.lerner@richmond.edu
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