First Circuit. In honor of National Caregiver Month, the Suffolk University Elder Society held a raffle to raise money for the Massachusetts Alzheimer’s Foundation. Western New England College hosted its 25th annual basketball tournament in Springfield, Mass., home of the National Basketball Association Hall of Fame . . . . The U.S. Department of Justice has awarded Northeastern Univeristy’s law school and two Boston-area legal service agencies a grant to provide legal services for battered women and their children.

Second Circuit. Andy Berman, the ABA representative at Syracuse University, organized a service project in downtown Syracuse along with the student bar association. Kudos to Mellissa Longo and the ABA committee at New York Law School for organizing food, clothing, and Toys for Tots drives during the holidays.

Fifth Circuit. Congratulations to the Emory University School of Law’s Public Interest Committee, which received the 1999 Outstanding Member Group Project Award by the National Association for Public Interest Law.

Seventh Circuit. Chicago-Kent’s student bar association and student services department brought in a masseuse, whose services were free to law students as part of a "Stress-Buster" program. Other organizations provided study snacks for their members during the last exam period.

Eighth Circuit. The Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program is very strong this year, with eight out of 13 law schools participating.

Ninth Circuit. Whittier College put on its Annual Nevis Softball Tournament for the entire circuit. Schools from across the circuit participated in this event and reportedly had a blast. Each school SBA pitched in $250 to play, and the winning school donated the money collected to its charity of choice. Thanks to Whittier’s very active ABA representative Shane Stafford and SBA president Ryan Vos for a very successful event.

Twelfth Circuit. Students at Seattle University organized a follow-up event to their Work-A-Day project to do tree plant-ing for salmon streams . . . . Ernesto "Jack" Piza, lieutenant governor for VITA, is working hard to have the entire Twelfth Circuit on board for this up-coming tax season . . . . Welcome aboard to Kiana Sarraf, the newest school representative from the University of Washington.

Circuit governors are responsible to all of the American Bar Association-accredited law schools in their circuit. The circuits are:

First Circuit: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont

Second Circuit: New York

Third Circuit: Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania

Fourth Circuit: North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia—except George Mason University—and West Virginia

Fifth Circuit: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Puerto Rico, and Tennessee

Sixth Circuit: Kentucky, Michigan, and Ohio

Seventh Circuit: Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin

Eighth Circuit: Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota

Ninth Circuit: Southern California and Hawaii

Tenth Circuit: Arkansas, Kansas, and Oklahoma

Eleventh Circuit: District of Columbia and George Mason University

Twelfth Circuit: Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington

Thirteenth Circuit: Louisiana and Texas

Fourteenth Circuit: Northern California and Nevada

Fifteenth Circuit: Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming