MUHLENBERG'S WESCOE SCHOOL CELEBRATES COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY
Muhlenberg Evening College celebrated its Commencement Ceremony for the graduates of W. Clarke Wescoe School of Professional Studies on Saturday, April 6. Twenty-one graduates from the Easton and Allentown campuses received bachelor's degrees in business administration, human resources management, or information systems.Monday, April 8, 2002 02:12 PM
Muhlenberg Evening College celebrated its Commencement Ceremony for the graduates of W. Clarke Wescoe School of Professional Studies on Saturday, April 6. Twenty-one graduates from the Easton and Allentown campuses received bachelor's degrees in business administration, human resources management, or information systems.
The W. Clarke Wescoe College of Professional Studies was created to provide adult learners an opportunity to pursue lifelong education, and to do so in ways, which recognize their experience, maturity, motivation, and life circumstances and capacity for independent scholarship.
The commencement speaker was Judge Edward N. Cahn. Cahn has been Of Counsel at the law firm Blank Rome Comisky and McCauley LLP since 1999 focusing on litigation and dispute resolution. From 1975 to 1998 he served as a United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and was Chief Judge from 1993 to 1998. He was admitted to practice law in Pennsylvania in 1959 and was in private practice from 1959 to 1974 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Lehigh University and received his LL.B. degree from Yale University in 1958.
Judge Cahn is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Lehigh County and Pennsylvania Bar Associations, Judicial Conference of the United States from 1994 to 1996, Judicial Conference Committee on Judicial Resources from 1993-98. He was a Tresolini Lecturer in Law at Lehigh University. Judge Cahn is a certified panelist of the National Patent Board. He is a member of the Donald E. Weiand, Sr. American Inn of Court. Judge Cahn was Adjunct Professor of Law at Rutgers-Camden Law School from 1985-89.
In August of 2001, the U.S. Senate passed legislation to name the Federal Courthouse in Allentown after Judge Cahn, in recognition of his exemplary service and reputation as a jurist.
