At the 8th Annual Ronald H. Brown Dinner, Congressman Charles B. Rangel received a special Dean’s Award and extraordinary service awards were presented to the four retired law professors of color: Cynthia Straker Pierce, Hon. Philip Roache ’54, Kenneth Wang ’57 and Howard A. White ’54. The RHB Center also named an award after the School of Law’s first African American graduate, William Tucker Garvin and presented the award to all alumni of color who graduated before 1960. Among the recipients was Thomas H. Lee, the first Asian American lawyer licensed in the state of New York in 1936.