9/19/2006

Five major participants in Suffolk University’s history were honored September 19, Founder’s Day, at the 2006 Heritage Medallion awards ceremony at the John Adams Courthouse Great Hall. 

The Heritage Medallion was introduced in the 1980s, and 45 significant members of the University community have now been honored with the award. 

This year’s Heritage Medallion recipients are:

• David J. Sargent, a Law School graduate, faculty member, Law School dean and, since 1989, president.  He has expanded Suffolk University’s mission of opportunity globally through mergers and partnerships and international collaborations and campuses. As president, he has expanded the University infrastructure and transformed a commuter campus to a residential one. 

• Distinguished Professor of Law John E. Fenton, Jr., joined the Suffolk Law School faculty in 1957. He was an associate dean before serving as Law School dean from 1994-1998.

• Francis X. Flannery joined the University as assistant treasurer in 1964. He is now treasurer, vice president and trustee of the University.

• Jeanne M. Hession, a 1956 Law School graduate, was elected the first female member of the Board of Trustees in 1973.  The Board awarded her an honorary DJS degree in 1974 and two years later made her a Life Trustee. 

• The late Thomas Jefferson Boynton was chair of Suffolk’s Board of Trustees from 1911 until his death in 1945. He helped win passage of a charter for Suffolk Law School and subsequently of two additional charters, for Suffolk College in 1935 and for Suffolk University in 1937.
 

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