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SPRING 2023 INDUCTEES HERE ARE A FEW WORDS ABOUT EACH OF OUR NEW INDUCTEES. Thank you, Chris. Very well done. Now, Chris put his remarks together by combing through the brief statements we asked each of the new inductees to give us – but he wasn’t given a full deck. President Harriman asked each member of the class to send a note with something unusual and interesting about themselves; and the majority did. But we were about two dozen responses short. So I reminded – and warned them. I told them “I have a vivid and vindictive imagination, and anyone who doesn’t give me a response should not be surprised to be written up as a former toe-fungus model.” That shook loose responses from nearly all, but we still had a few AWOLs. So . . . the following bits of detail about each of our new Fellows are either true (at least as perceived by the Fellow) or I made them up. Guess which is which. VICTOR A. AFANADOR, Newark NJ, is a former D-3 la- crosse player and a former actor (he played Fred – yes, Fred – in the Chatham Players production of A Christmas Carol). WANDA AKIN, Trenton NJ, received her invitation to be- come a Fellow in the middle of a six-week homicide trial – in which her real trial was the passing of her mother on the day Wanda had to cross the State’s principle witness. Wanda knows a few things about the College; her husband, Raymond Brown, was inducted in 1991. RICHARD F. ALBERT, New York NY, is the son and grandson of Long Island hardware store owners and credits working his teenage years at the store, weighing out pounds of galvanized nails for customers, as his forma- tive life experience. He met his Tuc- son-native wife at a St. Patrick’s Day party while in law school, and now finds himself related by marriage to a multi-platinum record selling bad- boy rock star and a co-host of the TV show Outnumbered. EMORY ANTHONY, JR., Birmingham AL, was appointed to the Municipal bench at the age of twenty-seven and served for twelve years before unsuccessfully running for Mayor of the City of Birmingham. He served twelve years as Dean of Miles Law School. Now a criminal defense law- yer, his only regret is that he didn’t play professional base- ball. \[Well, lots of us have that regret, but we presume Emory mentions it because he had a shot . . .\] TOM ARMOSINO, Medford OR, grew up in a home in an olive orchard that his grandfather planted when he immi- grated from Italy. Tom was the captain of a high school football team that was state champion three straight years. Tom took the MCAT and LSAT the same week; he was leaning toward medical school but hedged the bet with law school. His MCAT score was merely OK, but the LSAT was very good, so law school it was. In one of his med mal defense cases, he hired a fellowship trained hand surgeon as an expert and later asked her to be his wife. KERI ARNOLD, New York NY, majored in piano perfor- mance and biology in college and has run seven marathons. \[Okay, “piano performance and biology” got our attention as a phrase. Keri’s website lists her undergraduate education as “Uni- versity of Colorado, Bachelor of Arts in Music and Biology, sum- ma cum laude” as though “Music and Biology” is an actual cur- riculum, but we checked - it is not. But certainly, a little music can set a nice mood for certain biological events, so why not?\] JASON AUSMAN, Omaha NE, was born and raised in South Dakota and attended Creighton University with no real plan beyond an undergraduate degree, but reminded of the Grisham line “law school, the great American baby-sitter for direc- tionless postgrads,” he decided to give law a shot. After a few years with small firms doing insurance defense, Jason opened his own plaintiff’s injury firm, initially operating out of his basement with a Blackberry, a laptop and a $50 all-in-one printer, fax, and copier. 65 JOURNAL