Judge: Look Beyond Career: Quinnipiac Graduates Urged To Lead Others
By The Hartford Courant, Conn.
May 14–HAMDEN — A total of 705 graduates of Quinnipiac University’s graduate and law schools received their degrees during commencement exercises Sunday.
The university’s law school awarded 188 degrees and U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall received an honorary degree. She also gave the commencement address and urged graduates to be involved in more than just their own careers.
“Wherever your law degree takes you, I urge you to see something in your future that is larger than yourself,” she said. “I urge you to envision yourself committed, not only to your legal or other career, but also to the public affairs of your community and nation; to participate, indeed to lead, in your communities — both professional and civic communities.”
Harry N. Mazadoorian, an attorney from New Britain and a distinguished senior fellow in the law school’s Center for Dispute Resolution, also received an honorary degree. Mazadoorian has made mediation a specialty of his and was the first chairman of the American Bar Association’s mediation committee.
The university awarded 517 degrees at the commencement ceremony for its graduate schools and its college of professional studies. Timothy O’Connor, secretary-general to the president of Ireland, and John T. Dunleavy, chairman of New York City’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade and Celebration Committee, received honorary degrees.
“Where to now, how to take all you have learned in this great place and carry it forward in the best possible way in your lives?” O’Connor said in his remarks to graduates. “That is the challenge now. Go out there, build your dream, believe in yourselves and have a real go now. In very basic terms, I commend to you to take a leaf from what has happened in Ireland in the last 20 years.”
The graduates on Sunday included Lina Pacelli and her daughter, Sabrina Pacelli, both of Derby. Lina Pacelli received her master’s degree in business administration while her daughter, who turned 24 on Sunday, received her master’s degree in elementary education.
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