JAY VERDUGO  PASSES BAR EXAM AND
MILA VERDUGO MARRIES IN RHODE ISLAND

Riverside, Illinois - Mila Verdugo of Chicago formerly of Riverside, Illinois, daughter of Dr. Shirley Verdugo-Perez was married July 14, in Narraganett, Rhode Island to Dr. Michael Mulhearn of South Kensington, Rhode Island. The marriage vows were performed in a historic castle setting with the reception at the Coast Guard House. It was a global wedding with guest from Arizona, Oregon, Florida, New York, Illinois, Michigan, Rhode Island, and as far away as England, Switzerland, and Spain.

Mila attended the Illinois Math and Science Academy in Aurora, Illinois, and Cornell University in New York (major in Biology-Pre-Med). In her junior year at Cornell, she was one of six students selected from Cornell to research Saki Monkeys in the Amazon Jungles of Venezuela South America in the summer of 1998. Upon retuning to Cornell she was selected to discuss the groups findings with Dr. Jane Goodall, the visiting lecturer at Cornell and the world renowned scientist and researcher of monkeys. In her senior year, Mila was selected as a Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholar to the University of Sydney, Australia. She received her Master's Degree in Public Health there and is currently an administrator at the West Side Center for Disease Control. Dr. Mulhearn received his bachelor's degree from the University of Pittsburgh and his Doctorate in Physics from The Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. He is currently employed at Fermi Lab as a Post Doctoral Fellow in conjunction with Columbia University in New York.

They honeymooned in Martha's Vineyard in Cape Cod and are on a second honeymoon in Spain.

Jay Verdugo of Riverside, Illinois graduated Cum Laude from Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, Michigan on September 23, 2007. He took the Bar and Ethics exams in February and March 2008 and received his law license on May 8, 2008 at the Illinois Supreme Court in Springfield, Illinois by Justice Rita Garman. Jay has a bachelor's and master's degree in Engineering from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where he was a Scholar Power award recipient, Chairman of Professional Development-Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, Founding Member of the Student Business Association in Kinesiology, and Volunteer for Habitat for Humanity. In Law School, he was the the president of the Student Intellectual Property Law Assocaition. Both in undergraduate, graduate and Law School he was on the Dean's List. He is current member of the Polish Advocates Society, the Hispanic National Bar Association, Chicago Bar Association, Illinois Bar Association, American Bar Association, and Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity. He is a lifetime member of the National Eagle Scout Association and a proud member of Lodge 825 Cicero Society of the Polish National Alliance.

Subitted by:
Dr. Shirley Krull Verdugo-Perez
Recording Secretary of Lodge 825
 

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