Summit Meeting
Summit Meeting: A number of the principals who helped prepare the November 12 high school program meet backstage before taking the stage at Yardley Hall. Pictured, from left: Meryl Justin Chertoff, Director of the Justice and Society Program at The Aspen Institute and Adjunct Professor at Georgetown Law School; J. Eugene Balloun, co-founder of the Johnson County First Amendment Foundation and partner, Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.; Sandra Day O’Connor, Associate Justice (ret.), United States Supreme Court; David J. Waxse, co-founder of the Johnson County First Amendment Foundation and Magistrate Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas; Tristan L. Duncan, program speaker liaison and partner, Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.; Ken S. Thomas, Member of the Advisory Committee of the Johnson County First Amendment Foundation and Teacher of Government and Advanced Placement U.S. Government, and We the People Coordinator, at Blue Valley Northwest High School; and Erin Braun, Director of Outreach for iCivics, Inc. (Photo by Elizabeth Kuhlmann)
A Full Auditorium of Eager Students
“A Full Auditorium of Eager Students”: Students are shown departing Yardley Hall after the November 12, 2013 “Conversation About the Constitution with Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.” Students and teachers arrived early – many at least 15 minutes before doors opened – on a bitterly cold November morning and filled the lobby as they waited patiently for seating to start and politely took their seats inside the auditorium. In all, more than 1,100 high school students and teachers from 24 public and private schools in Johnson, Wyandotte, Douglas and Leavenworth Counties in Kansas took part in this unique experience in civic education. Justice O’Connor later remarked: “I thought it went very well, and I was very impressed that we had a full auditorium of eager students there.” (Photo by Elizabeth Kuhlmann)
Sara Hofeditz Christensen, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
Sara Hofeditz Christensen, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
Sherwood Archibald photographer
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Professor Meryl Chertoff, J. Eugene Balloun, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Hon. David J. Waxse, Tristan L. Duncan
Sherwood Archibald photographer
J. Eugene Balloun, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and Hon. David J. Waxse
J. Eugene Balloun, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and Hon. David J. Waxse
Photographer Sherwood Archibald
We The People
We The People: Gene Balloun presents Blue Valley Northwest teacher Ken Thomas with a donation to the Blue Valley Northwest We the People program, as Erin Braun, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, and Sara Christensen look on. “We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution” is a program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education and the Center for Civic Education and teaches students about the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. The Blue Valley program, which Mr. Thomas coordinates, has represented the State of Kansas in the national We the People competition in four of the last five years. In appreciation of the work that Mr. Thomas and Ms. Christensen performed in preparing the study guide for Justice O’Connor’s November 12 presentation to high school students, the Foundation was pleased to provide the Blue Valley Northwest We the People program with a modest donation following the close of Justice O’Connor’s presentation. The Foundation also made a donation to Justice O’Connor’s iCivics program at the conclusion of her presentation, which the law firm of Shook, Hardy & Bacon generously matched. Pictured, from left: Erin Braun, Director of Outreach for iCivics, Inc.; Sandra Day O’Connor, Associate Justice (ret.), United States Supreme Court; Ken S. Thomas, Member of the Advisory Committee of the Johnson County First Amendment Foundation and Teacher of Government and Advanced Placement U.S. Government, and We the People Coordinator, at Blue Valley Northwest High School; J. Eugene Balloun, co-founder of the Johnson County First Amendment Foundation and partner, Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.; and Sara Hofeditz Christensen, Foundation Program Planning Committee Member and Member of the 2014 Graduating Class at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law. (Photo by Elizabeth Kuhlmann)
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Photographer Sherwood Archibald
Pictured: Jill Moore, Nancy Garden, Steve Case, Sandra Scott.
Pictured: Jill Moore, Nancy Garden, Steve Case, Sandra Scott.
Photo by Sherwood Archibald
Running Bases at 18th & Vine
Running Bases at 18th & Vine: (From left) Nancy Garden, award-winning author of Annie On My Mind and other books, and her partner, Sandra Scott, visit the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Missouri following Justice O’Connor’s “Conversation About the Constitution” with Kansas high school students. (Photo by Dr. Raymond Doswell, vice president of curatorial services for the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, Inc., and courtesy of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum)
Holding Court
Holding Court: Students from St. Teresa’s Academy meet (from left, back row) Judge Duane Benton (Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals), Heather A. Jones (President, Lawyers Association of Kansas City, Inc.; and Shareholder, Seigfreid Bingham, PC), and Justice Sandra Day O’Connor (Associate Justice (ret.), United States Supreme Court), following Justice O’Connor’s receipt of LAKC’s Charles Evans Whittaker Award on November 12, 2013. (Photo by Patrick Sirridge)