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This year’s Lawrence County Bar Association’s Law Day scholarship winners are Evan Magill of Ellwood City, left, and Evan Bailey of New Wilmington.
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This year’s Lawrence County Bar Association’s Law Day scholarship winners are Evan Magill of Ellwood City, left, and Evan Bailey of New Wilmington.
Anthony Piatek
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That’s a question two high school seniors answered, each with differing views, in essays that won them scholarships from the Lawrence County Bar Association.
Evan Bailey, a Wilmington Area School District high school student, and Evan Magill, a Lincoln High School student from Ellwood City Area School District, were recognized as the winners at the bar association’s annual Law Day ceremony in the Lawrence County Courts, where they read their essays to attending Lawrence County Common Pleas judges, attorneys, family members, their school administrators and instructors and elected county officials.
Each winner received a scholarship of $2,000 toward his college education.
The two were chosen from among 24 entrants in the essay contest from seven out of eight Lawrence County school districts that participated.
Bailey, a son of Courtney and Craig Bailey, plans to attend the University of Alabama as a biochemistry major. At Wilmington, he is vice president of his senior class, a member of the National Honor Society and has been a lawyer for the school’s mock trials. Bailey received the National Rural and Small Town Recognition Award and the Academic Achievement Award.
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Magill, a son of Kim and Thomas Magill of Ellwood City, plans to attend Penn State University’s main campus in University Park, majoring in secondary education in physics. He is involved in track and student council and is vice president of the school’s chapter of the National Honor Society.
“I’m always impressed by how high school students with no legal background can grasp such a complicated legal issue,” commented President Judge Dominick Motto, who presided over the program. To the winners, he said, “It certainly is a testament to your academic achievement.”
The winners were introduced by Attorney Anthony Piatek, chairman of the bar association’s scholarship committee. The committee members met and came up with the question, which was sent to all school districts in the county for their students to submit essays. The committee members, in addition to Piatek, are District Attorney Joshua D. Lamancusa, Assistant District Attorneys Luann Parkonen and William Flannery, and attorneys Ryan C. Long, Jean Krkuc-Perkins and Deborah A. Shaw. The local bar association president is Attorney Larry J. Puntereri.
Piatek also recognized Central Heating & Plumbing owners Francis and Tracy and Francis and Debbie Lynch for a $200 donation to the annual Law Day scholarship fund, in memory of Carmen F. Lamancusa. Lamancusa, a longtime prominent attorney in Lawrence County, died March 20 at age 83.
Motto provided a history of Law Day, noting that President Dwight D. Eisenhower established the observance in 1958 to celebrate the rule of law in a free society. Congress in 1961 designated May 1 as the official date nationally for celebrating Law Day.
Wednesday’s event marked 40 years of the Law Day essay contest in Lawrence County. To date, including Wednesday’s awards, the organization has awarded a total of $113,500 to students at high schools countywide.
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