Remembering "Mrs. A" - Lois Ackerman Members of the Oregon Law community are mourning the loss of a longtime administrator
and generous friend of the school. Lois Ackerman passed away Thursday, January
8, 2009, of a sudden heart attack.
Ackerman joined Oregon Law in 1943 as secretary to Dean Wayne Morse and acting
Dean Orlando Hollis. Known affectionately as "Mrs. A," Ackerman, the dean, and a faculty
secretary comprised the entire law school administration at the time of her hiring.
Mrs. A spent 50 years at the law school, serving in several different capacities
including assistant dean, registrar, admissions officer, recorder, executive assistant,
and student counselor. Throughout her time at the law school, Mrs. A served six
deans and thousands of students while watching Oregon Law transform into a statewide
and national leader in legal education. Mrs. A retired from the law school in
1993. In 2001, Mrs. A. and Ray received the law school's Meritorious Service Award
for their generous contributions to the life of Oregon Law. At the ceremony, former
dean and Professor Emeritus Eugene Scoles noted that Mrs. A, "spent 50 years as
the most important non-lawyer in the lives of a half century of Oregon law graduates.".
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Click here to view the text of Eugene Scoles' 2001 speech honoring Mrs. A with the Meritorious Service Award.
Click here to read her obituary.
Click here for photos of Mrs. "A" at the law school.
VIDEOS of Mrs. A
Professor Jim Mooney and Dean Margie Paris surprise Mrs. Ackerman with the announcement that the Class of 1978 endowed a scholarship on behalf of Lois and Ray Ackerman. The Law School then elected to name the Lois and Ray Ackerman Scholarship as its General Scholarship Fund.
(October 10, 2008) Click here for photos of this event!
Former Dean Orlando Hollis speaks at Lois Ackerman retirement party - Oct 12, 1993 (Part 1 of 8)
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