Leary Davis, founding dean of the Elon University School of Law, and Larry Vellani, director of corporate and foundation relations at Elon, attended a regular meeting of the Financial Study Club of Greensboro on Thursday, April 20. The Financial Study Club is one of the oldest private luncheon societies in Greensboro, founded in 1971.
At the personal invitation of longtime Study Club member E. Eloy Doolan, executive director of the Greensboro-based Hillsdale Fund, Davis and Vellani joined the members for lunch and dialogue. Davis formally addressed the group on the Elon School of Law’s innovative curriculum and surveyed the membership on the knowledge, skills and attributes that they prized in the lawyers with whom they have worked. Davis said the School of Law’s curriculum is being structured to specifically impart the professional and personal attributes identified by the Study Club members.
Pictured above are E. Eloy Doolan P ’92 (left) with Davis (second from right) and fellow members of the Financial Study Club.
The Hillsdale Fund has worked closely with Elon’s Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations in the 2001 renovation of historic Carlton Building. A recent gift from the Fund has made it possible for Elon to employ the nation’s first executive coach-in-residence at a school of law, Bonnie McAlister.