Top: MBA President Douglas K. Sheff (left) presents a check to scholarship winner Elizabeth McIntyre, along with Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Publisher Susan Bocamazo
Bottom (from left): MBA Secretary Christopher A. Kenney, MBA President Douglas K. Sheff, scholarship winner Elizabeth McIntyre, Christine McIntyre, Matthew McIntyre and MBA Vice President Christopher P. Sullivan
Photos by Jason Scally
The Massachusetts Bar Association and the MBA Insurance Agency
sponsored Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly's first-ever
Leadership Scholarship, which was given out during this year's Top
Women of Law luncheon. During the Oct. 31 event at the Boston Park
Plaza, MBA President Douglas K. Sheff presented a check for $3,000
to Elizabeth McIntyre, an outstanding third-year student at Boston
University School of Law who has embraced public interest work.
McIntyre has served on the executive board of the Public
Interest Project and volunteered with a range of service
organizations, including the Southern Poverty Law Center, the
Michigan Legal Services Foreclosure Project and Greater Boston
Legal Services.
In her application for this scholarship, McIntyre said, "[T]he
world can change. And if you recognize that the world can change,
you must likewise recognize that every time the world has changed,
it has done so because someone, somewhere, thought it could. That
someone was joined by another someone, and another, and another.
Together, they made the world a little more equal, a little more
free, a little more just. There is no reason I, and we, cannot do
the same."
In addition to Sheff, other MBA officers on hand to support
McIntyre and the other Top Women of Law honorees included Treasurer
Robert W. Harnais, Vice President Christopher P. Sullivan and
Secretary Christopher A. Kenney.