May 13, 1998 Contact John R. Crosiar (541) 346-3135 From UO Law School EUGENE--Six residents of La Grande are scheduled to receive doctor of jurisprudence degrees Sunday (May 17) during the University of Oregon School of Law's commencement. Tamara Mae Brickman, Christopher Hudson Edwards, Jeremy Nolan Hendon, Cory Larvik, Julie Elizabeth Smith and Eric A. Trice are among the 165 students earning law degrees this year. They will be honored by family and friends beginning at 1 p.m. in the Silva Concert Hall at the Hult Center for the Performing Arts, One Eugene Centre. A reception will follow at the Paul Olum Atrium in Willamette Hall, 1371 E. 13th Ave. on the UO campus. Ann Aiken, U.S. district judge for the District of Oregon since February and a 1979 graduate of the UO law school, will deliver the commencement address. Selected by the law school's graduating class, she previously served as a Lane County Circuit Court judge from 1993-98, as Juvenile Court judge for Lane County from 1996-98 and as a Lane County District Court judge from 1988-93. Oregon Attorney General Hardy Myers, a former five-term state representative, speaker of the Oregon House from 1979-83 and a 1964 graduate of the UO law school, will receive the school's 1998 Meritorious Service Award. Given by the law faculty, the award recognizes outstanding service to the administration of justice and legal education in Oregon. -30- #H-2240/Hometown