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THIRTY-NINE PUBLIC HIGH
SCHOOL STUDENTS COMPLETE
2008 SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT JUDICIAL YOUTH CORPS PROGRAM
More
than 100 people attended a recent Appreciation Day ceremony
to celebrate the achievements of 39 Boston and Worcester
public high school students who completed the 18th annual
14-week Supreme Judicial Court Judicial Youth Corps program.
The Appreciation Day program, which was held in the John
Adams Courthouse on August 22, featured Supreme Judicial
Court Justice Roderick L. Ireland, who provided inspiring
words in his keynote speech and presented the students
with their certificates for completing the comprehensive
court education and summer internship program.
Other
notable speakers included Massachusetts Bar Association
President David W.White, Jr., Massachusetts Bar Foundation
President Laurence M. Johnson, and attorneys Gerald Howland,
Boston Judicial Youth Corps Teacher and James Rosseel,
Worcester Judicial Youth Corps Teacher. Douglas Arbetter,
a student at Doherty High School in Worcester and Melissa
Negron, a student at the John O’Bryant High School
in Boston, also gave brief remarks describing their experiences
with the Judicial Youth Corps.
Established
in 1991, the Judicial Youth Corps program teaches high
school students about the Massachusetts court system and
the importance of a rule of law. Through weekly educational
classes in May and June and summer internships in courts
in Worcester and throughout Boston, the students learn
firsthand how the judicial branch functions in a constitutional
democracy. Judges, lawyers, clerks, probation officers,
court officers and other court employees volunteer their
time to teach and supervise the Judicial Youth Corps students
throughout the 14 weeks. Field trips to jails, law firms,
police departments, and law schools broaden the students’ experience.
Students are selected by teachers and school administrators
to apply for the program each year. Each applicant is interviewed
by court officials.
The
Boston Judicial Youth Corps summer internships are funded
by the Boston Private industry Council and the City of
Boston Hopeline Youth Fund. The Worcester Judicial Youth
Corps program is funded by the Massachusetts Bar Foundation.
More
than 600 students have benefited from the court and community
partnership program during the past 18 years.
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SJC
Justice Roderick L. Ireland (left) congratulates
a Judicial
Youth Corps student on Appreciation Day with Laurence M. Johnson,
President
of the Massachusetts Bar Foundation (middle), and Jerry Howland,
Boston Judicial Youth Corps Teacher (right). |
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Jerry
Howland presents a certificate to Alexandra Hargraves,
a student
at New Mission High School, as Judge Ireland applauds. |
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A
Worcester Judicial Youth Corps student receives her
certificate from
James Rosseel, Worcester Teacher (left), David White, Jr., President
of the
Massachusetts Bar Association and Justice Ireland |
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Judicial
Youth Corps students in the front rows of the audience |
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Judicial
Youth Corps students in the front rows of the audience |
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Supreme
Judicial Court Justice Roderick Ireland addressing
the students and audience |
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The
2008 Judicial Youth Corps Boston students with Chief
Justice Margaret H. Marshall, Justice Roderick L.
Ireland and Jerry Howland (seated).
Vanessa Scott- Woodbury (third row, right) is the administrative
assistant for the Boston program. |
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The
2008 Judicial Youth Corps Worcester students posed
in their Judicial Youth
Corps T-shirts with teacher and attorney Jim Rosseel (third row,
left). |
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