IN MEMORIAM
Elizabeth decided to become a lawyer. She was given a scholarship to AUWCL in 2020. She was preparing to enter her last semester of law school when she passed away.
Elizabeth worked at the AARP and planned to practice elder law aſter graduation. Many of her teachers and professors commented on how her papers would make them laugh. At the AUWCL Commencement on May 20, Elizabeth’s family was recognized and accepted a posthumous degree in her name.
Howard Lee SPA/BA ’69, JD ’73, passed away June 22, 2022, at the age of 75. Lee served nearly three decades on the Dean’s Advisory Council. Lee leaves a deep legacy at AU. He contributed annually to AUWCL for more than three decades and was active in raising funds to build the new law school. Lee also established three awards to help AU students cover their academic expenses.
Following his death, members of the council cited his devotion to AUWCL in championing a need-based scholarship in his honor. The Howard Lee Memorial Scholarship Fund will make its first award next academic year.
Although Lee encouraged young people to enter the legal field, he did not practice law himself. Instead, he spent much of his own career in the political arena. Aſter graduating from AUWCL, he worked as an assistant and legislative director for Congressman Walter E. Fauntroy, who represented the District of Columbia. Lee later held other public service roles, including as director of the Thriſt Depositor Protection Oversight Board under the George H.W. Bush administration and as staff director for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy. Lee also served the Commonwealth of Virginia, including several years as a judge for the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, before becoming managing director of the Cosmos Alliance, a DC-based investment group involved in emerging biotechnologies.
Richard Levick ’87, former director of the American University School of Public Affairs Leadership Program, passed away on April 11, 2023, at the age of 65. Levick was the Chairman & CEO of LEVICK, a DC-area crisis communications and public affairs firm, representing countries and companies in the highest-stakes global matters. He was known as a forerunner of litigation communications and for representing many high-profile countries and companies in critical cases involving global communications.
Levick was a published author, a frequent keynote speaker and lecturer, and a professor at Fordham Law School who appeared multiple times on the list of “The 100 Most Influential People in the Boardroom” and was named to several professional halls of fame for lifetime achievement.
Herbert Norris Morgan ’60, passed away on April 11, 2023, at the age of 93. In 1952, he leſt his role as a policeman and joined the US Air Force. Near the end of his career in the Air Force, Morgan attended AUWCL at night and graduated in 1960. While practicing law, he started working for and eventually bought a title company in 1972, in Arlington, Virginia. Morgan was also a board member and co-founder of several banks and savings and loans in Northern Virginia and he served on the American University Board of Trustees from 1989 to 1995.
Over the years, he was president of the Arlington County Chamber of Commerce, served on the Salvation Army Board of Directors, was a supporter of Arlington Hospital and Columbia Baptist Church, and was a member of The Virginia House of Delegates in 1972 and 1973.
Paul P. Purta passed away at age 95 on October 26, 2022. Paul served AUWCL in various roles, including director of professional programs and alumni affairs, and associate dean of institutional advancement. In 1996, Kent Brostrom ’96 and Ilene Brostrom established the Paul P. Purta Endowed Scholarship at AUWCL in honor of Purta. This scholarship supports a student who has previously worked in a helping profession, such as social work, counseling, or the ministry, and is religiously active and has financial need.
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