TERRY W. LOESSIN Austin ISD High School Social Studies Curriculum Specialist /

2009 Law Focused Education, Inc. Honorary Leon Jaworski Award recipient

CELESTE SMITHAustin ISD High School Social Studies Curriculum Specialist

JANIE MALDONADO

Austin ISD Middle School Social Studies Curriculum Specialist / Law Focused Education, Inc. Board Member

LEAH BLANKENSHIP Austin ISD All Stars Program Supervisor; former Social Studies Curriculum Specialist /

Law Focused Education, Inc. Board Member

Austin ISD Social Studies Curriculum Team attending the

Bar Leaders Recognition LuncheonHilton Anatole Ballroom

Dallas, Texas~

June 25, 2009

TERRY W. LOESSIN Austin ISD High School Social Studies Curriculum Specialist /

2009 Law Focused Education, Inc. Honorary Leon Jaworski Award recipient

CELESTE SMITHAustin ISD High School Social Studies Curriculum Specialist

JANIE MALDONADO

Austin ISD Middle School Social Studies Curriculum Specialist / Law Focused Education, Inc. Board Member

LEAH BLANKENSHIP Austin ISD All Stars Program Supervisor; former Social Studies Curriculum Specialist /

Law Focused Education, Inc. Board Member

Austin ISD Social Studies Curriculum Team attending the

Bar Leaders Recognition LuncheonHilton Anatole Ballroom

Dallas, Texas~

June 25, 2009

Keynote speaker for the Bar Leader’s Luncheon, David Brooks with Leah, Terry and Janie. Brooks served as an editorial writer and film reviewer for the Washington Times, a reporter and later op-ed editor for The Wall Street Journal, a senior editor at The Weekly Standard from its inception, a contributing editor at Newsweek and The Atlantic Monthly, and a commentator on NPR. He is now a columnist for The New York Times and commentator on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.

Egads…I dropped my napkin…and I was saving that bit of cheesecake for later.

Lisa Sanders Richardson, President -Law Focused Education, Inc.; and Harper Estes, 2008-09 President - State Bar of Texaswith Terry

2009Honorary Leon Jaworski Award

ForTeaching Excellence In

LAW FOCUSED EDUCATIONPresented To

TERRY W. LOESSINAustin ISD

“It is within our capability to restorean awareness of Values

in our Laws and Institutionsand, in so doing,

to inspire attitudes of confidenceand faith in our democratic society.

We must teach the child at a receptive agewhy a free society must rely upon Law

and the nature of the Dutiesthat a free society

imposes upon its members.”

~ Leon Jaworski, 1978.

Accommodations at the Hilton Anatole…Thanks Jan Miller and the folks at Law Focused Education, Inc.!

And Joe Ramirez, AISD Administrative Supervisor for Social Studies, my sincere appreciation to you for the nomination!

Unlike this delicious popcorn, I didn’t know where to stick

these two pics. Geez, I’ve got a double chin! ,