Class Agent Program

The Class Agent Program (full Class Agent list) was developed to promote on-going class involvement among alums and create opportunities for peer to peer support of the Law School.
The primary role of Class Agents will be to act as alumni representatives for their respective classes. With the assistance of the Law School staff, Class Agents will:

Serve as Law School liaisons to seek, promote, and drive participation for Law School events
Author letters and e-mail messages to their classmates for annual support of the Law School

Class Agent Philosophy:
People give to people. The most successful fundraising campaigns are those in which people of means and influence are recruited to give their time and money to a campaign and ask others to do the same. The volunteer’s task is to ask. Our staff will do the rest.

Through this peer-to-peer campaign, Class Agents advance the Law School’s core messaging with customized communications that resonate with a specific audience/class to increase donor participation, reach new donors and increase alumni engagement.

Class Agents – 1-3 Representatives recruited from each class who will author 3 letters and follow up e-mail messages (drafted by the development staff) to their classmates for annual support of the Law School

Facebook and LinkedIn Sites –Class Agents promote reconnecting with other alumni via the Law School’s social networking vehicles to learn about Law School News, Updates and Events, Photos and Links to Class Notes and Alumni Giving pages

Class Agents Duties:

Provide electronic signature to be used on solicitation letters and e-mails to their classmates
Review solicitation letters and provide 2-3 customized sentences per mailing for mail solicitations to their class in October, February and June
Review e-mail reminders that are sent on their behalf following mail solicitations

The Law School launched the program in September 2008 with 19 pilot classes.

In September 2009, eleven additional classes will join the program including 1959, 1964, 1969, 1974, 1979, 1984, 1989, 1994, 1999, 2004, and 2009.

If you are interested in representing your class as a Class Agent, contact the Office of Alumni Relations and Development at 312-503-7609 or fill out this form.

Complete list of Class Agents:
1957	Sherwin Pogrund
1958	Warren Haskin
1958	Richard Wiley
1959	Richard Cowen
1959	Arthur Mintz
1959	Shelby Yastrow
1962	Richard C. Moenning
1962	Peter Sfikas
1964	Louis Rathje
1964	Robert Romanoff
1964	Julian Oettinger
1967	Herold "Mac" Deason
1967	Thomas Dumit
1967	Edwin Dunn
1968	Richard Devine
1968	Alexander (Sandy) Kerr
1968	William Stevens
1969	Tom Geraghty
1969	Donald B. Hilliker
1969	William O. Hochkammer
1969	George Sullivan
1972	Ron Ganim
1972	John L. Ropiequet
1973	Landis Martin
1974	Jack Beam
1974	Roger Dennis
1974	Pete Wentz
1977	Allen Cherry
1977	Dean Hansell
1977	Susan Fisher-Yellen
1978	R. Mark Halligan
1979	Phyllis Amabile
1979	Beth Sprecher Brooks
1979	Rita Fry
1982	Leslie Donovan
1982	Barbara Hermansen
1983	Graham C. Grady
1984	Tom Abendroth
1984	Debra Novack
1984	Kay Pashos
1984	Maureen Stratton
1987	Steven Hilfinger
1988	Carol A. Genis
1988	Drew Soshnick
1989	Timothy Bryant
1989	Mike Pace
1989	Douglas Tween
1992	Jeffrey Lapin
1992	Michael Gordon
1994	Tina K. Diamantopoulos
1994	Gordon N.J. Kroft
1997	Mark Kirsons
1997	Neal Svalstad
1998	Robert Fleetwood
1999	Richard Bernstein
1999	Marcelo Slonimsky
2002	Jennifer Duberstein
2002	Jennifer Levin
2003	Claire Coleman
2003	Elizabeth Salinas-Strittmatter
2004	Cassandra Becker
2004	David Sayyed
2004	Vinod Verghese
2007	Christina Catalano
2007	David Presser
2008	Suneel Gupta
2008	Juliana Priest
2008	Emily Quick Schriver
2009	Assad Clark
2009	Leslie Garbarino
2009	Sarah Hoffman