Saint Louis University wins Madison County Bar Association scholarship contest
SLU's Danielle Jacoby (from left), SLU recipient Elizabeth Nguyen and SLU Law Dean Lewis receive the check from Madison County Bar President Elizabeth Levy and Committee Co-chair Mary Nalefski.
The Madison County Bar Association invited representatives from Saint Louis University School of Law to its October Meeting to celebrate SLU as the winning school of the bar association's scholarship contest. Dean Lewis and Danielle Jacoby from SLU School of Law attended the meeting along with this year's recipient, Elizabeth Nguyen, to accept the contribution of $7,339.06 for the SLU scholarship fund.
Scholarship committee chairs were Mary Nalefski, Irv Slate and Lawrence Taliana. The scholarship committee held a good-natured competition over a several month period between law school graduates from Saint Louis University, Washington University, Southern Illinois University and the University of Illinois to match donations from each school's member alumni with funds set aside by the entire membership of the Bar Association to benefit current and future law students. The lawyers donated a total of $18,321 to the law schools. The committee decorated the tables at Sunset Hills in Edwardsville with St. Louis University cardboard Billikens as part of the celebration.
Saint Louis University received the largest amount at $7,339.06, followed by Southern Illinois University at Carbondale with $6,939.30, the University of Illinois with $3,144.84, and Washington University with $897.80.
Scholarships are being created at each of the law schools to benefit needy students who are trying to complete their legal education. Interested students should contact the individual law schools for applications details.
