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New Merit-Based
Scholarship Fund Aids 1Ls
Charles
I. (Casey) Cogut L’73,
a Partner with Simpson Thacher & Barlett in New York, and his wife Ellen
F. Cogut, made a gift of $100,000 to establish The Charles I. and Ellen
F. Cogut Endowed Scholarship Fund at the Law School. The fund will
provide merit-based financial support to a first-year law student. In
1998 Mr. Cogut established the Seymour Lichtenstein Scholarship Fund
at the Law School in honor of his father-in-law. Cogut heads the merger
and acquisition practice at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett where he specializes
in domestic and international mergers, acquisitions, and leveraged buyouts.
He joined the firm in 1973 and became a partner in 1980. From 1990 to
1993 he served as the Senior Resident Partner in the firm’s London office.
Cogut is currently a member of the firm’s Executive Committee, and serves
as a member of the University of Pennsylvania Law School’s Board of Overseers.
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STUDENTS HONOR SADIE T. M. ALEXANDER WITH A GIFT FROM THE CLASS OF 2002
At commencement ceremonies for the Class of 2002 held at the Kimmel Center on Broad Street, graduates
presented Dean Michael A. Fitts
with a check for $3,200. The majority of participating class members designated the gift for the
Sadie T. M. Alexander Professorship in Law, a chaired professorship in civil rights that students,
alumni and friends have been working to establish at Penn for several years. Sadie Alexander, the
first African American graduate of Penn Law School is memorialized annually with a conference and
dinner sponsored by the Black Law Students Association (BLSA). |
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